Agamemnon’s fleet can’t set sail to Troy without sacrificing his own daughter for the winds to blow. Even the heroic Achilles can’t save Iphigenia, with his own greedy troops disobeying him. A Greek ...

History in the Middle East rarely begins where modern analysts think it does. Most discussions of geopolitics start with the Cold War, the Iranian Revolution, ...

Some leaders build bridges. Others build industry. And then there’s Ursula von der Leyen: specialising in turning off gas taps while simultaneously declaring ...

As I recently passed through my ‘barrio’ – to be pronounced in Spanish as ‘wario’ – the miscellaneous nature of the ...

No conflict has ever been resolved thanks to international law; such a world has never existed. It's a fictional world that ...

Joint US-Israeli strikes that resulted in the death of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, followed by the behind-the-scenes election of his son ...

Last night, I watched an episode of Black Mirror and couldn't let it go. Now I don’t mean the cheap shock of a clever twist ...

Before we understood where we stood on a map, we understood what was taken away.  Before we could spell sovereignty, we ...

We have romanticised new chapters to the point that we expect them to arrive wrapped in clarity, confidence, and a perfectly timed announcement, as if growth ...

Empires rarely announce their endings; they fracture. The assassination of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei last Saturday, ...

A dramatic escalation in Middle East tensions transformed into outright war when U.S. and Israeli forces launched a ...

In Syria’s coastal regions, particularly Latakia, Tartus, and parts of Hama, between 7 and 9 March 2025, one of the most ...