Pablo Sapag
Professor at Complutense University of Madrid and author of "Syria in Perspective".
World Cup 2022: The house always wins
The collective West is using the World Cup to emphasize its well-ingrained orientalist prejudice against Arabs, a xenophobic caricature very well dissected by Edward Said in his book Orientalism.
The long and powerful arm holding the sword
Normalizing Arabs involved in the plots are all alien to Bilad Al-Sham, and thus irrelevant to the outcome of a struggle of decades, if not centuries.
It’s the EU, stupid, the EU!
The use and abuse of the pretended image of Russian/Soviet tanks rolling through the German forests to the heart of Western Europe is a revival of those Cold War B films.
Meaning and Validity of Bilad al-Sham
After a long decade of an imposed, cruel and bloody winter, the political recovery of the Arab block as an international actor is taking shape precisely around Bilad al-Sham.
In Vietnam He Was 19… In Afghanistan Too
The question here is if the US will be capable to heal this mental wound with more maturity than it demonstrated after fleeing Saigon.
Northeastern Syria and beyond, between Westphalia and Orwell
Some western states seem to be developing an Orwellian foreign policy condemned to the same failure as that of France, the UK and the US.
Waiting for Spain Back in the Middle East
Self-absorbed by domestic tensions, Spain wade quickly out of the international arena.