Everything seemed to come to a halt in the period leading up to the US occupation of Iraq in April 2003. Everyday life, educational institutions, and government offices all came to a standstill, almost as if a child had hit the pause button during a particularly terrifying scene in a movie.
Bashar al-Assad fell into the trap set by the Israeli withdrawal from Southern Lebanon in 2000. A deliberate Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon, however, could have ensured continued Syrian influence in Lebanon. This influence, initially greenlit by the United States, remained equally unchallenged even after the US invasion of Iraq and its aftermath, despite the event leading to the complete destabilization of the region and the collapse of one of the...
It was the first year of the occupation. In that atmosphere filled with the smoke of bombings and the fumes of fires, even the healthiest of eyes suffered. What, then,...
I belong to the generation that celebrated the war's conclusion in the summer of 1988. For three consecutive days, the streets teemed with Iraqis singing and dancing in response to...
Saddam Hussein's silencing of any dissident voice deprived Iraqi society of essential debates on the country's fundamental strategic choices. By monopolizing political truth, despotism became the primary cause of a...
The United States invasion of Iraq marked a pivotal moment that presented an opportunity for shifting the political scene in Egypt. New generations and opposition groups were coalescing like a...
The numbers say that 200,000 civilians and an equal number of soldiers, children of these civilians, lost their lives in the war. But nobody keeps track of the number of...
Just as the first war of Iraq created the conditions for Arabs to sit at the same table with Israelis, so did the second war over a decade later expedite...
