Behind the scenes of the Islamic State: Who are we really fighting?
As the wave of attacks that took place in Western Europe in 2015-2016 calmed down,…
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Who controls the present, controls the past: History lost and forgotten.
From astrology and science to Mathematics, agriculture and trade, the Middle East harbours the groundworks…
Thinking too much and not forgetting enough.
At some point, everybody wants to leave Lebanon. The capital gets suffocating, so we all…
Why the travel ban won’t bring a halt to terrorist threat in the US
President Trump, after being in office for 12 days, signed 18 executive orders and memorandums….
Obama’s Foreign Policy: Triumphs and Missteps
Barack Obama took office in 2009 with the upmost confidence that he would be able…
It’s Too Easy to Forget That Kindness Binds Us
On Sunday morning, the Russian Defence Ministry’s Tu-154 plane crashed in the Black Sea that…
To Peace, or Not to Peace?
In 1995, Hoolbroke described Yugoslavia as the ‘greatest collective security failure of the West since…
Syria – Searching for a Pyrrhic Victory
After almost six years since civil war broke out, Syria is still a place of…
The Deafening Silence: Has Saudi Arabia Gone Too Far?
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is perhaps ‘the most violent and abusive of all autocracies,’ because of its dependence on…