by Ghassan Al Imam | Sep 10, 2014 | Opinion
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claims to have achieved in a few months what other projects seeking Arab unity have failed to do since Mustafa Kamal Atatürk abolished the Ottoman Islamic caliphate in 1924. In a blink of an eye, ISIS has called on 1.5...
by Ghassan Al Imam | Sep 8, 2013 | Opinion
The state in Egypt is all-encompassing and powerful, and so it is no surprise that the legitimacy of the state has prevailed over that of the Muslim Brotherhood. The Brotherhood may have been able to hijack the presidency, but its president Mohamed Mursi did not know...
by Ghassan Al Imam | Jun 8, 2013 | Opinion
A love-sick widower wrote the following epitaph on his late wife’s tombstone: “The light of my life has been put out.” Having spent years in aching loneliness, the man fell in love with another woman, who provoked his desire for marriage. He then...
by Ghassan Al Imam | Jun 1, 2013 | Opinion
Hezbollah’s government has invented the principle of “non-interference,” but it failed to apply this on the ground. Today, the party is involved in a “do or die” battle in Syria, a neighbor to its state within a state, which views Lebanon as an outlying...
by Ghassan Al Imam | May 19, 2013 | Opinion
What does the political situation in Syria look like on the ground after the recent Israeli airstrikes and the bomb attacks on the Turkish–Syrian border? Moscow’s peace efforts are once again being overwhelmed by the increasing signs of war. The Syrian regime,...
