By: Laila Ahmed Introduction: Everyone agrees that Trump is unpredictable. Who could have imagined that he would court North Korea, initiate the Abraham Accords, and supply Ukraine with Javelins—all while moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem and claiming to admire Vladimir Putin? His unpredictability is likely to increase during his second term, partly because of […]

By: Laila Ahmed Introduction Two weeks after a shockingly debilitated performance during a debate against Donald Trump, the President has sought to prove that it was, in his words, a “bad episode” and not a “serious condition.” But the debate marked an indelible change in perspective among influential Democrats, donors, and the press, some of […]

By: Laila Ahmed Introduction: Laicité, a concept that essentially means “secularism” but is largely more complicated and politically charged has become an integral part of France’s contemporary political scene. A term that created controversy by being applied harshly on Muslims starting from the late 1990s. The French government regardless of who is the president has […]

Introduction: Conflicts in the Middle East and Africa are a reflection of the complexity of protracted conflicts; The way in which they interact, their longevity, the behaviour and demands of the perpetrators, the parties’ terms of settlement, the dynamism of which they are characterized, and the intensity of their competition reflect their complexity. This complexity […]