Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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A man dressed up in a Lebanese flag attends a demonstration against proposed tax increase, in Beirut. (Alia Haju / REUTERS)

Lebanon: A Nation Postponed

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jun 22, 2017 | Opinion

As it is well-known, there is a basic difference between an ‘examination’ and a ‘contest’. In the first, all entrants may pass, not so in the second which must end with ‘winners’ and ‘losers’. In schools and universities, examinations are the norm unless there is a...

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A Union Jack flag flutters next to European Union flags ahead of a visit from Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron at the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels, Belgium February 16, 2016. REUTERS/Yves Herman

UK: Two Failed Gambles Within Two Years

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jun 15, 2017 | Opinion

Sooner or later stubborn denial will fall when facing reality. Thus, when the British Conservatives lose their parliamentary majority in the snap early general elections they called, even lose safe seats like that of affluent Kensington in central London, they need to...

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PM Theresa May, Reuters

Another Test for British Democracy

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jun 7, 2017 | Opinion

In a small street corner restaurant situated between Asharq Al-Awsat’s old office building and The British Museum in central London, I met her. She is a waitress who is infatuated with national politics. This single mother of Irish descent rarely misses a...

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Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain’s opposition Labour Party, speaks at a campaign event in Reading, May 31, 2017. REUTERS/Peter Nicholls

Foreign Intervention and the UK General Elections

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jun 1, 2017 | Opinion

The UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s comments on the Manchester suicide bombing, suggesting that “Many experts, including professionals in our intelligence and security services, have pointed to the connections between wars our government has supported or fought in...

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Iranian president Hassan Rouhani gestures during a news conference in Tehran, Iran, May 22, 2017. TIMA via REUTERS

Iran: The Regime’s Nature and Its Calculations

by Eyad Abu Shakra | May 25, 2017 | Opinion

It was interesting that the arrival of the US president Donald Trump in Riyadh in his first foreign visit since taking office should coincide with the election of Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani for a second term. Avoiding the temptation of ‘conspiracy theory’, I...