By Yanis Iqbal

Lebanon's financial meltdown

The Lebanese pound has depreciated about 90% in the past 18 months, driving annual food inflation to 400%, erasing salaries and savings, and pushing more than half the nation into poverty. All this comes at a time when the country is battling the devastation wrought by COVID-19, as well as the ravages from the 2020 Beirut blast.

By Imad al-Din Payande

National information network: More than just a “flash in the pan”!

In recent years, some countries have successfully collaborated with the tech giants such as Facebook, Google, and Twitter. Facebook introduced its legal representative in Turkey to set the agenda for cooperation under the country’s new cyberlaw.

By Martin Love

Imagine what Gaza could become if the siege were lifted…

Words are not sufficient to describe the horrors of what “Israel” (and the U.S. as an enabler) have done in the last two months around al-Aqsa, Sheikh Jarrah and across Palestine, and then Gaza for almost two weeks.

By Munir A. Saeed

Sometimes it takes a volcano to start the healing 

Let me start by saying something some may consider outrageous. 

By Ahmad Abiyat

Two-state solution: Settlement or prolongation of suffering

After a grinding war launched by the Israelis on the Gaza Strip and desecration of Muslim’s first qibla, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, many international organizations, humanitarian institutions and observers are raising questions about the settlement based on a two-state solution: Palestine and Israel. 

By Professor Mahmood Monshipouri

Israel losing the war of moral awakening

The recent war between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza has raised many questions.

By Anthony Mathew Jacob 

Palestine, to whom does it belong?

Palestine is considered sacred to all three religions that trace their roots to Prophet Abraham: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. 

By Batoul Sbeity

Britain's historic responsibility in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine

By 1913, the British Empire was the largest to have ever existed, covering 25% of the world's land surface, including India, Yemen, Egypt, Sudan and most of the South and East African continent. 

By Batoul Sbeity

What makes the Palestinian catastrophe incomparable to any crime that has occurred for humanity? 

Why is Palestine considered the core issue when it comes to human justice, such that Al-Quds Day- a day to raise awareness about the plight of all oppressed groups is done in the name and the sanctity of Al-Aqsa? 

By Batoul Sbeity

Bribed normalization: The reverse effects

In mid-August of 2020, former U.S. President Trump started brokering the normalization of ties between the Wrong State (Israel) and a series of Arab nations, with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan and Morocco forged open and official ties.

By Steven Sahiounie

The normalization is a betrayal by the Arab monarchies

The resistance is stronger and more united than ever before

The current situation in West Asia is volatile and many-faceted. On the one hand, you have military conflicts and threats; while on the other hand, you have diplomatic negotiations proceeding. For example, there is tension between the Palestinian people and their Israeli occupiers and between Syria and Israel after the missile strike near Dimona nuclear reactor, and between Iran and Israel. On the side of diplomacy, there are the U.S. and international negotiations concerning a revival of Iran's nuclear deal.

By Professor David N. Yaghoubian

Selling out Palestine will not result in regional security and stability

Normalization between expansionist Zionism and regional monarchial despotisms is inherently oxymoronic

The United States is on its back foot in West Asia.

By Sonja van den Ende  

Quds Day: To remember the injustice and criminal deeds of the Zionists

The current situation in West Asia is deteriorating; even there is a new administration in the U.S., which many thought would be promising for the peace process between Israel and Palestine and the stability for peace in Syria, and Iraq.

By Driss Addar

The International Quds Day: Heading towards a historic decisive confrontation 

(The end of Israel may come at a lower cost than the resistance fighters expect)

The International Quds Day embodies the protection of memory, before the land and properties, from abuse. And the holy places always anticipate the sacred act.

By Tim Anderson

The Arab–Israeli normalization is just a removal of masks

The so-called ‘normalisation’ process, catalysed by Trump, is really just a removal of masks. The UAE for example, has been working with Israel for many years. No resistance state or people has changed its position. Biden has yet to announce his position on Palestine. But his options are now highly constrained.

By Paul Larudee 

This is a time of change in West Asia 

This is a time of change in West Asia, and it is having worldwide consequences. Israel is at the origin of the change because without it the U.S. would not have so many Zionists in its government and its foreign policy would be very different.

By Khalid al-Qaddumi

Al-Quds sparks the flames of resistance again

In this piece, I want to address the messages and implications of the Bab al-Amoud uprising and some of the developments in Palestine.

By Chang Hua, Chinese Ambassador to Iran

China's economy gets off to a good start

According to the statistics recently released by China's National Bureau of Statistics, China's GDP increased by 18.3% year-on-year in the first quarter of 2021.

By Mohammad Ali Saki

Hezbollah is the main target of Riyadh's ban on Lebanon

Tehran - Riyadh has kicked off a series of widespread economic pressures on Beirut to push the Lebanese government to exclude Hezbollah from the country's political and military scene.

By Jim W. Dean

Duante Wright, a senseless death due to family and police negligence

America saw another tragedy in the senseless death of this young black man. Two lives are now destroyed, a 20 year old young man struggling with competency and responsibility issues, and a 26 year female police veteran who when attempting to tase the resisting arrest man, drew her service revolver from her right hip when the taser was on her left hip.

By Sonja van den Ende  

Natanz sabotage: A sign of Biden's unwillingness to revive the JCPOA

The attack on Iran’s nuclear facility Natanz, coincidentally, happened on the day that the U.S. secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited Israel. Lloyd Austin, who was heavily involved in the Afghanistan and Iraq U.S. occupation (war), was the senior military commander in charge of all U.S. and remaining coalition forces in Iraq, since 2010.

By Tim Anderson

West Asian endgame when the lying dead is in the morgue

It seems fairly clear that Israel was responsible for Natanz sabotage, as (1) the sabotage is consistent with a long line of Israeli attacks; (2) the Israeli media rapidly gloated over it and (3) quoted anonymous sources saying that the Mossad was responsible.

By Abir Bassam

The second coming of Ben-Gurion

The reasons behind capsizing the Taiwanese cargo ship "Ever Given", on the 24th of March, have become clear.