Lebanon is probably the only country in the world that is teetering on the brink of total collapse while, at the same time, is desperately resisting...
The wide emotional response to the horrible explosion that took place on Aug. 4 in the port of Beirut was interpreted, by many Lebanese, as evidence that the...
Political observers and world leaders are at a loss when it comes to determining what the Trump doctrine in foreign affairs is. Thomas Friedman, in an article...
Until the Congressional elections of last November, the idea of removal from office of President Donald Trump was a recognized impossibility. It needed,...
The U.S. sanctions on Iran, that took effect on the fifth of this month, include, basically, the sectors of transportation, banking and energy. The energy...
The Helsinki summit that took place, in private, between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on July 16 was received with a wave of condemnations by...
One aspect of the rising Islamophobia in France has been the social and legal struggle over what is a permissible attire, mostly for women. This struggle came...
What is America’s policy regarding our region now that Trump has decided to withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal? Russia has already established itself in...
The hegemony of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (the WASPs), later the “non-Hispanic whites,” on the social, economic and political life of the United...
The other day, I saw on television a middle-aged Syrian woman who had just lost her family to a terrorist attack. She was crying hysterically. “And now ...”...
In the mid-1800s, there was a mass migration to the United States. Although it included Jews and Muslims, the ire of the Protestant American population fell...
Donald Trump was combative at his news conference on Aug. 15. “This week it’s Robert E. Lee,” he said. “I noticed that Stonewall Jackson is coming down. I...
There are obviously a number of issues to be resolved regarding the rights of Lebanese women, such as their right to give their children the Lebanese...
During his campaign for president, and the first three months of his presidency, Donald Trump was the champion and the main stoker of American Islamophobia....
In his book “The Islamophobia Industry,” Nathan Lean, the research director at Georgetown University’s New Project on Islamophobia, the Bridge Initiative,...
Statistics relating to human development in Lebanon are in a deplorable state. They either do not exist, or they are outdated. Worse yet, they are often...
There is no denying: America was made by, and for, the “free white,” a term meaning, essentially, the protestant Europeans of English decent. Don’t mind the...
Many thoughtful Americans, indeed analysts around the world, are frantically searching for the reasons behind the appearance of Donald Trump on the American...
“It is the nature of men to create monsters ... and it is the nature of monsters to destroy their makers,” said Harlan Wade, the mad scientist, in the video...
Attitudes in the United States toward Islam have come unhinged, with Islamophobia stoked lately by the campaign rhetoric of practically all Republican...
The reaction of European governments and media to the recent flow of refugees into Europe has generally been xenophobic.British Prime Minister David Cameron...
This year the United Nations is celebrating its 70th anniversary. Criticism of the organization has come from all directions. Disapproval has been directed at...
Americans were disturbed, especially after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, by the realization that most people in the world looked at the United States with...
Art Brazilian-born Amina Ayoub, provides a look at a particular genre of photography, theater in the Arab world, in the latest exhibition at the Goethe...
Art The first time I saw Fadia Haddad’s paintings at the Alice Mogabgab Gallery an image appeared before my eyes of a scene from the 1963 Alfred Hitchcock...