“We can put a shelter anywhere within two days, even at the path to the military unit, not at the [exact] place … and a separate door with ‘Ministry of Interior’ written on it or something like that.” ...

Senator Lindsey Graham’s death marks the end of a career that embodies the erosion of democratic norms in the US. His late-career compromises and abandonment of democratic norms reflect a broader ...

History is replete with great rulers and great scholars, but it is rare that one individual should combine both characteristics. I want to tell you about one of them, who I consider to be the greatest ...

US President Joe Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating ...

Imagine a distant past, thousands of years ago, when ancient tribes roamed the vast lands of Eurasia. Among these tribes were the enigmatic Proto-Indo-Europeans, whose language, now known as ...

[Arab Digest thanks Christopher Davidson, a noted author and scholar for this piece. His latest book is From Sheikhs to Sultanism: Statecraft and Authority in Saudi Arabia and the UAE.] Unveiled ...

Last month, Egypt’s foreign minister, Badr Abdelatty, hosted a gathering that, on its surface, looked like the kind of multilateral consultations that define crisis diplomacy. Abdelatty met with his ...

Against the backdrop of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s visit to India and escalating instability in the Gulf, the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue is emerging not as a fading alliance but as a ...

The standard framing of the AI race as a two-way contest between the US and China misses a third competitor closing the gap faster than either: a decentralized network of independent contributors ...

If you were alive and sentient in Britain in the 1980s, you will remember “multiculturalism.” This was an ideal, a policy, a statement of intent and an acknowledgment of the presence of several ...

One of the best barometers of graft and corruption is the rate at which those close to the original perpetrators become perpetrators themselves. The rate goes up when it becomes clear to those ...

France is experiencing a surge of unrest as tensions escalate throughout the country. The catalyst for the recent riots was the fatal shooting of a 17-year-old boy of Algerian and Moroccan descent ...