by Mamoun Fandy | Aug 11, 2014 | Opinion
The war in Gaza is the second stage of a process of change regarding the nature of what used to be called “the Arab–Israeli conflict.” The first stage was the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, in which Iran, a non-Arab state, fought Israel in...
by Eyad Abu Shakra | Jan 23, 2014 | Opinion
Over the past few days, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Al-Hariri were very much in the news. On Syria, Ban made a painful diplomatic blunder by sending Iran an invitation to attend the Geneva II conference only to be compelled...
by Nadine Makarem | Aug 17, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Lebanese Hezbollah, gave a speech on Friday afternoon during a rally commemorating the so-called victory in the July 2006 war with Israel in which he condemned Thursday’s bomb attack on a...