By: Mohamed Abu Saada* According to a study published by the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), an Israeli think tank, President Donald Trump aims through his proposals known as the “Deal of the Century” [ More … ]
The mass trial of survivors of a massacre of pro-democracy protesters shames Egypt. Western powers should understand how autocracy is eating away at the Arab nation In its editorial, The Guardian expressed the newspaper’s view [ More … ]
The agenda has already changed, but I want to write about the Tehran Summit and the Idlib issue. To begin with, let’s recall what happened at the Tehran Summit, which was attended by the presidents [ More … ]
BY: Abdel-Hafez Al-Sawi* Introduction The Egyptian parliament has recently ratified legislation to establish a sovereign fund called the “Egypt Fund”. The fund comes after government promises since 2016. Dr. Ashraf Al-Arabi, Minister of Planning, was [ More … ]
We have entered the eighth year of the crisis in Syria and nowadays are in a situation in which it is acknowledged that the whole matter leads to the borders of Idlib. Now everyone is [ More … ]
BY: Burhanettin Duran The Trump administration’s policy of economic selfishness doesn’t just make the U.S. look like a vulgar and isolated superpower, but at the same time encourages the world’s leading economies to work more [ More … ]
BY: Erdal Tanas Karagöl The Gezi Park events, the Dec. 17-25 judicial coup in 2013, the July 15 coup attempt in 2016 and the latest attack on the economy through the exchange rate, which Turkey [ More … ]
In international relations, a nation having enough power for a move does not mean that it can exercise that power as it wishes. Applying force will mobilize another power against it and in this case, [ More … ]
“In summer 2011, I played my last intramural football game as a senior at Ohio State University. Two short years later, I found myself running, not from would-be tacklers, but for my life, from an [ More … ]
The rise in the exchange rate of the dollar, which has rallied in recent days, is ongoing. It is known that political reasons remain in the background of this rise. The last apparent reason is [ More … ]
By: Abdel-Hafez Al-Sawi* Subsidy in Egypt, a thorny issue, is usually addressed in light of government decisions to reduce it, which accordingly leads to raising the prices of goods and services. But subsidy is not [ More … ]
The turbulence in relations with the U.S. may perhaps be viewed as a new difficulty in Turkey’s foreign policy. Hence, the majority see this as a link in the chain of problems that Turkey is [ More … ]
On July 1, 2012, when the Egyptian military junta – theoretically – handed over power to the elected authority, the foreign reserves then was only $ 15.5 billion against $ 36 billion early 2011 when [ More … ]
The future for a free Palestine is being forged one meeting, one vote and one solidarity action at a time, but the key is to never give up and always take the moral and ethical [ More … ]
By:Yasin Aktay* Regardless of the progress humankind has made in science, technology or intelligence, and regardless of how much all this progress is reflected on politics, international relations and strategic plans, it seems a part [ More … ]
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