When US President Joe Biden took office early this year, no shifts in US foreign policy and its global alliances were noticed. Instead, the United States altered its orientation and stance on many…
Since the beginning of this year, Europe has been working on several fronts to revive its relationship with Africa, in general, and North African countries, in particular. Most of the new European…
On the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks on 9/11/2001, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization in the US, issued a…
The human rights issue shall remain a daunting subject in the relationship between the international community and most of the countries of the Middle East. There is a huge gap between how the…
Around 4 years ago, Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdul Aziz paid a historic state visit, the first by a ruling Saudi monarch, to Russia, which heralded a shift in global power structures according…
Diplomatic talks on reconciliation between Turkey and Egypt are resuming amidst a chaotic security scene in the Middle East, especially on the region’s eastern strategic depth. With a pinch of…
Hassan Zarif Nazarian may not be disturbed as much as other detainees by the scenes of violence practiced in the video footage leaked from the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. Being held in the…
“We’re putting diplomacy first and seeing where that takes us,” US President Joe Biden said during his first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett in the White House on August 27. “But…
After the great Egyptian writer late Naguib Mahfouz was subjected to a failed assassination attempt in 1995, the Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez sent him a letter in which he said, "The sun's…
Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky may not get everything right, but one thing is for sure – since becoming president in May 2019, he has worked tirelessly to resolve Ukraine’s territorial…
As support for Israel weakens across the US political spectrum, once-taboo questions about military aid, lobbying influence, and US backing are moving into the mainstream
Algeria is one of Africa's largest producers of hydrocarbons, and its proximity to customers in Europe makes it of growing interest as importers fret over a prolonged supply crisis from countries
Through extravagant processions led by palace women, the Mamluk state projected a message of power and prestige at home and abroad, turning the Hajj obligation into a soft-power tool