Opinion

Ambassador Abdel Mahmoud Abdel Halim Ṭarafa ibn al-‘Abd spoke the truth in his Mu‘allaqa: “The days may reveal to you what you were ignorant of, and news will come to you from those you did not provision.” If astonishment has gagged…

Walid Dalil In its new report, Poverty, Prosperity, and the Planet, the World Bank noted that eliminating poverty as defined for nearly half of the world’s population—those living on less than US$6.85 per day—could take more than a…

By: Ambassador Rashad Faraj al-Tayyib This paper presents an analytical reading of the book published by the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University, entitled “Al-Turabi: The Spokesman of Radical…

Mahjoub Fadl Badri My testimony is inevitably biased when it comes to Dr. Abdel-Ati Al-Mana‘i—Egyptian by birth and upbringing, Sudanese in affection and inclination. Love for Sudan varies among Egyptians, but Upper Egyptians…

Dr Inas Mohamed Ahmed Historically, the story of establishing conventions to protect civilians in war is one of international responses to painful humanitarian catastrophes and tragedies. The need evolved from mere humanitarian customs to…

Ambassador Atta Al-Mannan Bakhit President Muhammadu Buhari—a senior general and seasoned politician—served as Nigeria’s president twice. The first time was following a military coup in 1983, when he was appointed Chairman of the Supreme…

Mohannad Awad Mahmoud Militias in 2025 are no longer what they were when the wave of conflicts erupted after 2011—neither in function nor in their place within regional and international calculations. In the early years, they…

Mahjoub Fadl Badri Paul Craig, Assistant Secretary of the US Treasury during the administration of former US President Ronald Reagan, wrote an article entitled “The Hidden American Policy: An Alliance of Ideology and Money in the…

Mahjoub Fadle Badri International law did not pass the lips of the American President, Trump, even once. Yet, with evident swagger, Trump announced that he had ordered the seizure of the president of a sovereign state and his forcible…

Dr Al-Khidr Haroun The sharp turns in the history of peoples and states—those that lead to disasters and ordeals—demand pauses in which we feel for the points of danger and the sites of failure, mend breaches, and close gaps, in…