The international community urgently needs new tools, ideas, and initiatives to meet the common threats and challenges faced by the United Nations’ 193 member...
We Lebanese used to hail our health care system as one of the crown jewels of our local industries. Quality indicators rubber-stamped this claim.
Today, as our economic and social lives increasingly move online owing to the COVID-19 pandemic, the digital and physical domains are becoming more integrated...
The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded this year to the World Food Program (WFP) due to its role in combating hunger, contributing in enhancing peace in...
The coming week is set to be a consequential one for Lebanon on multiple fronts, involving not only renewed impetus on the quest for a government, but also...
Azeri President Ilham Aliyev's intransigence toward a cessation of hostilities, despite planned talks in Moscow Friday, makes it amply clear that the...
If Lebanese were allowed to participate in the upcoming American presidential elections, they would cast their votes based on their own political inclinations...
War in Syria, US sanctions, loss of military commanders, local pressure and fast transforming regional alliances, are forcing Hezbollah to adapt its tactics...
Lebanese and Israeli delegations both traveled to the south Lebanon border town of Naqoura Wednesday, their stated purpose to take part in US-mediated talks...
“One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” These words by Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai could not ring more true.
The lockdown during COVID-19 pandemic has reassessed the value of online learning and services platforms in our daily lives, with people also considering...
While much of the hand wringing over China has abated somewhat during the COVID-19 crisis, the fears animating Western attitudes toward that country have not...
Strange as it is to say, but it is no longer uncommon to hear talk of insurrection, martial law, and civil war in the United States.
We could assume that youth are less vulnerable to the pandemic than the elderly. Yet, are the youth therefore more resilient to its social and economic...
It is now becoming clear that no quick victory will emerge in the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan, despite Baku’s modern weaponry and political...
There is no single future until it happens, and any effort to envision geopolitics in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic must include a range of possible...
It’s official. The UK asylum system is, in the words of Home Secretary Priti Patel, “broken.”
Unlike tens of millions of people around the world who have contracted COVID-19 because of their poverty, bad luck, vulnerability as essential workers, or...
America’s capital is more on edge now than at perhaps any other time since the eve of the Civil War in 1860.
Governments have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic and the social and economic disruption it has wrought with a range of ad-hoc schemes, including paid...
A year ago, Turkey suddenly signed an important agreement with Libya's internationally recognized government, a deal that pushed a simmering proxy war into...
Corruption in Lebanon has been a chronic issue that resides above all the other complex challenges plaguing the country. Such betrayal of the public’s trust,...
Economic globalization refers to the “increasing interdependence of world economies as a result of the growing scale of cross-border trade of commodities and...
Children in European countries are now back in school, sitting at their desks learning via face-to-face instruction from their teachers, with all the...
People in Lebanon are enduring a dreadful crisis: Many people have lost their jobs with unemployment surpassing 35 percent, while others have faced a salary...
While some friends have urged me to comment on possible economic recovery plan, I am not writing this article to dissect the country’s macroeconomic situation...
The Sperry Corporation was an American manufacturer of electronic components, information-technology equipment, and defense systems that obtained lucrative...
Recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring food security require investments, socio-economic inclusion, social protection, smallholder resilience and...
We are surviving a pandemic that took many dear and loved ones. However, I can’t begin to fathom the suffering of our brothers and sisters in Beirut, Lebanon,...