New factors in the foreign policy calculus of Saudi Arabia and Iran will likely lower the intensity of the confrontation between them

In the wake of the immense changes taking place in the Eastern Mediterranean and wider region, the Maronite Church must put forward a new vision and new meaning for Lebanon

As the US and Iran assess the potential of a new and larger agreement, both sides will have to weigh the factors for and against

What does Europe want and what are its concerns in the search for strategic autonomy

These books, including those by several US Supreme Court judges, are typically wonderful and wondrous journeys into logic and deduction

With calls to boycott French goods growing across the Islamic world, Tarek Osman insists that Europe’s Muslims must integrate better into their own societies before it is too late

Nearly two decades after the death of the late Palestinian-American writer Edward Said, it is more important than ever that we adopt his thinking as a tool to analyse ourselves

Five factors will be crucial to the future shape of the Eastern Mediterranean

As far-right political parties extend their influence in many Western societies, there is a risk that the achievements of liberal democracy could eventually disappear

The most consequential question in international affairs today is how the US will deal with China’s rise, writes Tarek Osman

The polarisation taking place in the United States today will have major impacts on how the country meets the challenge of China and its relations with the rest of the world

The story of the Jews, according to Simon Schama, is fundamentally one of “finding the words” to express their experience

Coming changes, post-coronavirus, will extend beyond the role of states to encompass new forms of global strategic confrontations

Egyptian Nobel prize-winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz’s later collections of reflections and dreams could be seen as the culmination of his entire literary output, writes Tarek Osman

Behind the headlines, rich and long dynamics continue to play out in Iran, in its relation to the Arab world, outside powers, and domestic currents