Op-ed

Catherine Markus Water rarely makes headlines until it becomes a source of conflict. In Central Asia, where rivers cross borders, glaciers feed agricultural valleys and growing cities compete for limited supplies, water is becoming one of the region’s most consequential geopolitical questions. The challenge is not simply how …

By Francesca Meloni France’s unrest is not simply a story of burning cars, vandalized shops, or confrontations between demonstrators and police. It reflects a deeper crisis of political legitimacy in a country struggling to reconcile public expectations with economic constraints, institutional paralysis, and a rapidly changing social order. …

America’s elections will not change its Israel policy. They may change the Democrats’ A shifting party, a constrained Congress and a long wait until 2029 Whatever happens on November 3rd, American policy towards Israel and Palestine will remain in Donald Trump’s hands. Even a Democratic Congress could hold …

Maya Berri The relationship between the United States and Israel has long been described as exceptional, built on strategic cooperation, military assistance, shared political interests and close personal ties between leaders. Yet beneath that partnership lies a persistent tension: how far should either country go in influencing the …

There are moments when events move faster than politics can understand them. States then become prisoners of the images they built of their rivals, explaining the present with tools from the past, even after the balance of power has shifted and the map has been redrawn. Few relationships …

Henry Baker The November 3 midterm elections are shaping up to be a consequential test of President Donald Trump’s political standing and the Republican Party’s ability to maintain control of Congress. Polling averages and election forecasts increasingly point toward Democratic gains in the House of Representatives, while the …

By Eng. Saleem Al-Batayneh Anyone in the Arab world who still thinks and analyses for a living knows a particular kind of sadness. It is not despair over one country’s crisis. It is the sense of an intellectual darkness settling over the whole region, deeper in some places …

Dr. Nessrine Mesto-Assaad Imagine you are taking a picture in a small café in Egypt overlooking the Nile River. You keep the picture on your cloud server, and say to yourself, “I will not share it with anyone; I will keep it to myself.” This personal, spontaneous image …

Dana Ennab Washington’s renewed warning against travel to Iraq is more than a routine security advisory. It comes amid a regional crisis in which confrontation with Iran, attacks affecting Gulf states and concerns over threats to American personnel and interests are becoming increasingly interconnected. For Baghdad, the message …