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NYT: The President and A Former Terrorist Meet at the White House
Arab policy
Will the Shifting Orientations of Iraqi Voters Decide the Upcoming Elections?
Arab policy
My Third Message to Our Arab Shia Brothers: A Call to Reason and Reality
Opinion and Thought
So That All Is a “Majority” in Syria
Arab policy
A Call to Arab Countries: Support Our Shia Brothers’ Return to Their Arab Identity!
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Regional Powers Must Uphold Their Historical Responsibility to Achieve Stability in the Middle East
An opinion piece by Palestinian diplomat and former ambassador, Nabil Maaruf, proposes a new initiative to improve stability in the Middle East, neutralize conflicts arising from international interventions, and radically increasing the region’s low weight in the international system of power. His perspective on the Middle East initiative is based on the transformations that Europe underwent during its dark ages.
Zero-Sum Game: Belated Awakening of the 60-Year-Old Munich Security Conference
The 2024 Munich Security coincided with high levels of uncertainty about the future of the international system, developments in the Ukrainian war, the challenges associated with the war in the Gaza Strip, and the relationship between the countries of the North and the South.
Deception and Illusion: Is there a difference between political Islam and economic Islam?
An opinion article dealing with the topic of Islamic banks, their financial systems, and the difference between them and conventional banks.
The Emergence—and the Required Juggling Act—of a Potential Statesman
How the Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani is navigating between the West and Iran?
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Algeria summit: Important Files and Deep Divisions
Op-ed | This article tackles the thirty-first Arab Summit, held in Algiers on November 1 and 2, 2022, as well as the most important issues on its agenda
The Impossible Mission: Why Is the Status of Solution Sought in Iraq?
Op-ed | This op-ed discusses all parties’ efforts to reach a consensus on a solution to the Iraqi crisis. While it seems elusive or unlikely to happen, a consensus on a solution may not be a demand in itself, whether in case the dispute reflects a healthy situation recognized even in ancient democracies or that the absence of a desired solution is fueling the situation of instability, carrying harbingers of broader unrest.
International Politics and the Demand of Civilizational Diplomacy
Op-ed| this op-ed addresses the importance of civilizational diplomacy in international politics. It answers questions including: What is the orbit in which civilizational diplomacy revolves? Is it a concept that takes its value and being from the concept of civilizational dialogue? What distinguishes it from other types of diplomacy? And why focus on the demand for civilized diplomacy at this moment?
The Necessary Balance: The Rise of China and U.S. Control
This paper addresses the impact of accelerated Chinese growth on the status of the international system, at a moment when talk is more on the need to create a balance between the rise of China and the current U.S. position. This paper addresses the Chinese strategy in managing this rise, and the U.S. strategy in confronting it.
Biden's visit: Who will lose and who will gain?
In general, the points of agreement between Washington and Riyadh transcend the contentious issues between the two countries.