Category: Understanding

Understanding comes through communication, and through experience, we progress. To understand and to be understood makes our happiness on earth.

Ali Albeash20/12/2025

From Palmyra to “Hawkeye”: ISIS, U.S. Retaliation, and the political logic behind Washington’s bet on Damascus

The ISIS-claimed attack on U.S. forces near Palmyra on December 13 was not an isolated […]
Emile Fakhoury20/12/2025

How to prevent burnout?

Burnout doesn’t arrive overnight. For me, it crept in quietly — constant tiredness, irritation over […]
The Liberum19/12/2025

In the new Middle East, victory is the greatest threat

The Middle East is entering a dangerous new phase where the collapse of old deterrence […]
Ahsan Ali17/12/2025

Afghanistan, Venezuela, and the geopolitics of forward basing

The unexpected reconfiguration of Afghanistan’s political and strategic future marked 2021. In July 2021, US […]
Dina-Perla Portnaar14/12/2025

Empathy is often framed as an endless resource we must pour into others

The saying goes: the moment you stop trying to please everyone is the moment your […]
Emile Fakhoury13/12/2025

Starting a new page in your career

There comes a point in every professional journey when the familiar begins to feel limiting […]
Vasif Huseynov11/12/2025

Azerbaijan charted the post-conflict era in 2025

Azerbaijan underscored its active role in navigating the shifting geopolitical landscape of Eurasia in 2025. […]
The Liberum10/12/2025

The self-cancellation of modernity

Something I tried to grasp in my book Be Abyssal is the acceleration that modernity […]
Nikola Mikovic09/12/2025

Kyrgyzstan: Democracy for the people, not for the privileged elite

Kyrgyzstan is a young, modern state – open, dynamic, and filled with optimism. For decades, […]
Murielle Hebbo07/12/2025

The woman I became while waiting

There are moments in life that arrive without any warning, moments that don’t look dramatic […]
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