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Buses gather at Aleppo’s Ramousseh crossing, before driving to Rashidin, west of Aleppo, to pick up the civilians stranded following a suicide car bombing on April 15. (AFP Photo)

A Historic Chance to Save what Could be Saved

by Eyad Abu Shakra | May 18, 2017 | Opinion

By the end of Lebanon’s Civil War (1975-1990), the Lebanese discovered a truth that a pre-Islamic young and brilliant poet named Tarafa Ibn Al-‘Abd had touched on more than 1,400 years ago when he said: Being maltreated by close relatives is more painful than being...

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Emmanuel Macron, head of the political movement En Marche !, or Onwards !, and candidate for the 2017 French presidential election, attends a campaign rally in Marseille, France. REUTERS/Philippe Laurenson

France at a Crossroads

by Eyad Abu Shakra | May 13, 2017 | Opinion

What Europe are we expected to wake up to? What political culture are we going to live under? Would there still be a place for descendants of immigrants in the continent where the Crusades were launched and two world wars were started, when its bigots begin rejecting...

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Police officers stand next to terraced housing in Harlesden Road, north London April 28, 2017. RETUERS/Neil Hall

Globalization of Terrorism in the Service of Bigotry

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Apr 28, 2017 | Opinion

In real democracies elections are a ‘means’ not an ‘end’. This is not the case with other types of democracy; such as the democracies of cheap slogans, and %90 victories which we have experienced in our countries, either to imitate others or to ingratiate ourselves to...

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Lebanese members of parliament attend a session in Beirut, May 31, 2013. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

Coexistence Is the Last Chance to Avoid the Precipice

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Apr 20, 2017 | Opinion

Last week, Egypt’s Coptic Christians cancelled Easter celebrations in mourning for those who were killed in two separate terrorist explosions targeting churches in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria. In Iraq too, new maps are being drawn by sectarianism, while...

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A crater is seen at the site of an airstrike, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah

Let’s Hope it is the Beginning of the End

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Apr 12, 2017 | Opinion

Let us forget about fake ‘nationalist’ condemnation, and shedding crocodile tears on doubtful ‘sovereignty’, since Syria became nothing but a ‘mailbox’ for exchanging regional international political messages. Let us also look deeper into a situation whereby human...