Category: Understanding

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

Nadia Ahmad23/05/2026

The post-Assad Levant and Israel’s minority anxiety

The post-Assad Levant is often described as another chapter in Syria’s long crisis, transition, or […]
Nadia Ahmad18/05/2026

The road to Beijing passes through Tehran

When Donald Trump arrived in Beijing for renewed negotiations with Xi Jinping, most observers focused […]
Murielle Hebbo17/05/2026

We couldn’t wait to leave… now we’d give anything to go back

Seventeen years ago, we walked out of school convinced that life was finally about to […]
Rafic Taleb11/05/2026

Syria’s quiet crossroads: Stability, fragmentation, and the illusion of control

Syria is no longer defined by the dramatic frontlines and rapid territorial shifts that once […]
Emile Fakhoury11/05/2026

The silent architecture of greatness

Every organisation builds two architectures simultaneously. -The first is visible — the hierarchy, the strategy […]
Vasif Huseynov10/05/2026

Heydar Aliyev: The leader behind Azerbaijan's modern achievements and advanced relations with Europe

Heydar Aliyev, Azerbaijan's third president (1923–2003), remains the foundational architect of the country's modern achievements […]
Murielle Hebbo10/05/2026

The tipping point: Navigating career limbo and the wake-up call of the body

Yesterday, a series of alerts lit up my screen, and with them came a familiar, […]
Nadia Ahmad06/05/2026

The storm is coming: Superman in the Oval Office and why powerful men keep trying to wear the cape

There was a time when presidents tried to look presidential: a dark suit, a serious […]
The Liberum03/05/2026

Between real rodents and human rodents

The Gaza Strip is experiencing a massive infestation of rats and large gerbils, particularly active […]
Nadia Ahmad01/05/2026

King Charles, Trump, and the Anglo-Saxon rift: Britain’s quiet break from Washington on Iran

There is a moment in every alliance when something shifts—not with a declaration, not with […]
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