A Voice of the Unheard Monday, September 21, 2026
It’s election season in Lebanon. Millions will head to the ballot box on May 15 to choose their parliamentarians, who will in turn elect a new president before October. International voting monitors are scheduled to observe election day and will likely report that the voting went smoothly. What they will miss, however, is the Hezbollah...
Benefiting from a skewed Supreme Court interpretation of the Iraqi constitution, Iran’s loyalists this week once again prevented the Iraqi parliament from electing a president, thus violating a constitutional mandate that a presidential election be held within 30 days of electing a speaker, which happened in January. With parliament stalled, Iran and its tiny minority bloc are...
The US special envoy on Iran Robert Malley thinks that there is only one way to solve the global standoff with Iran: Ending Tehran’s exclusion and boosting its economy, which should incentivize the Islamic regime to stay in the nuclear deal. To Malley, sanctions have failed and war is not an option. Malley also thinks...
The United States will revise its designation of Yemen’s Houthi militia as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), according to secretary of state-nominee Antony Blinken, who told senators at his confirmation hearing that such a designation complicates humanitarian efforts in Yemen and obstructs talks to end the war. But if Washington does remove the Houthis from...
The late Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, fought Israel with valor and signed peace with it with honor. Dignity and bravery can as well be attributed to the actions of the late Jordanian King Hussein. Now, the UAE joins them. Perhaps soon other Arab governments also will realize that for every policy there is a time...
The recent anti-racism protests around the world have revived a long-standing debate on whether Western museums should return artifacts taken by colonial powers from former colonies. In a recent article on the Foreign Policy website, the journalist Nosmot Gbadamosi claims there are “a number of new museums planned” right across Africa to house the cultural...