The presidency made absolutely certain the table Lebanese political leaders sat around Thursday was not round, so it wouldn’t echo gatherings of the past.
The issue of Lebanon’s power supply has for years taken a life of its own, residing among the host of other supposed impossibilities and controversies...
Though all the ingredients may be present and the reasons well-established, Lebanon is not in fact witnessing a battle of the sexes.
Whether we like it or not stories about terrorism are global and part of the daily diet of news.
The International Monetary Fund has resurrected an old technique – commonly used in the 1980s during the Latin American debt crisis – that would allow Greece...
Unless U.S. President Donald Trump decides that he has had enough, and returns to his gilded Manhattan tower, his presidency’s metastasizing crisis will...
Today, it appears that every single election in Europe can be reduced to one central question: “Is it a win or a loss for populism?”
Forewarned is forearmed. So perhaps the country is lucky that President Donald Trump’s allies have floated the possibility that he might fire special counsel...
The clashes that erupted Friday between security personnel and a handful of demonstrators in Beirut were an unfortunate reminder of some of Lebanon’s darker...
Now that the nightmare of the electoral law saga is over, it’s time for politicians to wake up, shed their Superman cape, return to being mere mortals and...
The total war seen raging in Syria is in fact drawing to a close.
The curtains of Lebanon’s political theater have been drawn.
Prime Minister Saad Hariri has won his bet and the attendant at the Grand Serail’s fireplace is poised to send white smoke up the flume today when the...
Under normal circumstances the Gaza Strip is considered a time bomb.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s call to dismantle the U.N. Relief and Works Agency further exposes the ugly face of Israeli policies.
In the wake of Britain’s elections, Theresa May said in her first statement to CNN, “I’m sorry for those candidates and hard-working party workers who were...
When Washington struck Syria’s Shayrat air base back in April, the shock of pro-regime forces being targeted by the superpower reverberated around the world.
Elections often hinge on numerous factors, including economy, employment, health care, education and diplomacy.
We have a saying in Arabic that if you throw someone out of the door they will try and come back in through the window.
Even as on the eve of the summer season the Lebanese government exerts all efforts to create an optimistic atmosphere to draw tourists, “hell-makers” in this...
London, an open-minded, liberal city, is once again victim to a terrorist attack.
Next week marks 50 years since the Naksa, or “setback,” and next year will see 70 years since the 1948 Nakba.
The optimistic atmosphere that has dominated the scene over the past few days has raised the mood of the Lebanese people and started to portray a sober and...
All religions, monotheistic or otherwise, stress the sanctity of life because all life is sacred and natural law does not discriminate between color, gender...
Donald Trump was never idle on his first trip abroad as president.
The reputable press in the U.S. has always been a monitor of the accuracy of politicians’ statements, and the number of fact sheets on Donald Trump’s...
Saturday’s conclusion of a hunger strike against detention conditions by more than 1,000 Palestinian held in Israeli jails highlighted the Jewish state’s...
Terrorism has proven yet again that it knows no religion, this time with masked gunmen in three SUVs carrying out a preplanned attack on a bus full of Coptic...
Now that the fanfare of Donald Trump’s trip to the Holy Land is over, and all they have to show for it are moments of entertainment, including Melania’s slap...