Iran is located at the heart of global oil routes, via the Strait of Hormuz. A peaceful transition could lower the ...
Yemen’s unity is no longer a foregone conclusion. The shared experience forged by history over more than three decades of unity has not guaranteed that geography will remain unchanged; it may ...
President Trump announced a Christmas Day strike against Nigeria on Thursday amid concerns about attacks against Christians.
Russia battered Kyiv with a winter missile-and-drone strike as Canada announced new Ukraine aid ahead of Florida talks, ...
The prolific Torah luminary whose Mishne Torah, Sefer Hamitzvot, Guide to the Perplexed, Letter to Yemen's Jews, and more ...
The rhetoric of international law all too often serves to buttress lawless regimes like Venezuela that undermine US interests ...
Somalia creates as many problems for the U.S. as it does abroad. Trump should follow Israel's lead and recognize Somaliland.
What presents itself as a breakthrough is more often a last throw taken under narrowing constraints. The result is not ...
The aide said that guys like me were “in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who “believe that solutions emerge from ...
From 2020 through 2025, more Muslims than Christians were killed in religiously targeted attacks. Armed groups such as Boko ...
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Asharq Al-Awsat on MSNOpinion

Is there life beyond the centralized nation-state?

Borrowing the opening lines of Marx and Engels' famous “Communist Manifesto,” we could say that the specter of rethinking the state is haunting the Arab region.The number of states whose unity is ...
Donald Trump says U.S. bombs fell on Nigeria to protect Christians. That explanation does not survive memory, geography, or ...