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An Iranian cleric walks past a mural on the wall of the former U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran. (Getty)
Politics

The Case Against the Iran Deal

Proponents of the Iran nuclear agreement are sounding the alarm. In 2018, the United States withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, and…

Michael Oren and Yossi Klein Halevi 31 January , 2021
Politics

The Battle of Information

Targeted media campaigns are no longer a regional issue, but a pressing global one. A newspaper's mission has long been to search for the truth,…

Elie Fawaz 31 January , 2021
Workers set up a mobile Huoyan (Fire Eye) laboratory, which is built with air-inflated structures and operated by BGI Genomics, for the nucleic acid testing at Hebei Gymnasium on January 8, 2021 in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province of China. (By Getty)
Science & Technology

Chinese Gene Firm Providing Worldwide COVID Tests Worked with PLA

BGI Group, the world's largest genomics company, has worked with China's military on research that ranges from mass testing for respiratory pathogens…

Kirsty Needham 30 January , 2021
How War Monuments Keep History Lessons Alive
Culture & Social Affairs

How War Monuments Keep History Lessons Alive

“Prisoners of History: What Monuments to World II Tell Us About our History and Ourselves” by Keith Lowe; William Collins A pedestal is a…

Jacqueline Cutler 29 January , 2021
Political scientist Francis Fukuyama.
Science & Technology

Fukuyama: Polarization Impedes Efforts to Thwart Covid-19

In an interview with Foreign Policy, the famed political scientist Francis Fukuyama revisits his view of liberal democracy as the end of ideological…

Majalla 29 January , 2021
Why Egypt's Parliament is Grabbing the Headlines
Politics

Why Egypt's Parliament is Grabbing the Headlines

After convening for just two weeks, Egypt's House of Representatives (lower chamber of Parliament) has been grabbing the headlines for good and bad…

Amr Emam 29 January , 2021
Mnatskan Muradyan, the grandson of Martiros Muradyan, works in a field outside the village of Pokr Vedi, south of Yerevan, near the Ararat mountain, seen in background, in Armenia on February 24, 2015 shows (Getty)
Business & Economy

Saudi-Armenian Relations: Lack of Diplomatic Ties Hinders Bilateral Cooperation

Arab-Armenian relations have been lukewarm throughout history. In the early quarter of the 16th century, both the Arab World and Armenia were invaded…

Motasem Al Felou 29 January , 2021
U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to sign a series of executive orders at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office just hours after his inauguration on January 20, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Getty)
Politics

The Devil is in the Details: Biden’s Difficult Path to the JCPOA

Since the early days of his candidacy for President, Joe Biden has been notionally committed to re-entering the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran. However,…

Joseph Braude 29 January , 2021
A child wears a face mask as a precaution measures against the coronavirus on March 22, 2020 in Sana'a, Yemen. (Getty)
Science & Technology

Middle East in Turmoil Pins Hopes on Vaccine Rollouts

The Middle East is pinning its hopes on the vaccine rollouts for an imminent economic recovery after the coronavirus pandemic hit a region already…

Menna A. Farouk 29 January , 2021
COVID-19 Vaccines May Cut Transmission As Well As Symptoms
Science & Technology

COVID-19 Vaccines May Cut Transmission As Well As Symptoms

Once again, the COVID-19 health message is getting muddled. Even as officials and scientists urge the public to get vaccinated, they warn that after…

Faye Flam 26 January , 2021
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Politics

Why a cornered Iran is also a problem for China

02 May 2026

Even when appeals to open the Hormuz Strait come from a close ally like Beijing, they fall on deaf ears in Tehran. But hope is not yet lost.

Xiaotong Yang
Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

Global airfares soar amid ongoing US-Iran turmoil

04 May 2026

Airspace closures, rising fuel costs, shifting flight maps and delayed aircraft deliveries have repriced flights around the world, with some travel routes hit worse than others

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
A man holds a flag featuring the late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei and the new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, at a rally in Tehran on 29 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

Real Iran splits and the myth of division

04 May 2026

The argument is over the price and presentation, not the basic instinct to preserve the system

Alex Vatanka
A Lebanese guard stands in front of  Magen Abraham, the last Jewish synagogue in Lebanon at Wadi Abou Jmil, Beirut's former Jewish neighbourhood, in the war-devastated city centre. JOSEPH BARRAK / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

New book recalls Beirut’s once-vibrant Jewish quarter

01 May 2026

Veteran Lebanese journalist Nada Abdelsamad transports readers back to the time when Beirut's Jewish quarter, known at the time as Wadi al-Yahud, was thriving

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush
Turkish fighter jets fly over a warship in Kyrenia, in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. AFP
Politics

How the Iran war changed Türkiye’s security calculus

05 May 2026

Ankara's national security priority is no longer Kurds or Gülenists, but Israel. Likewise, in Tel Aviv, Türkiye is increasingly seen as a future Israeli adversary. Both are preparing accordingly

Rustum Mahmud

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