Editor in chief

Editor in chief: Said Batrouni
PEN Name: Marcos Fidel
Is War Between the United States and Iran Imminent?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Thursday 29 January 2026 For more than four decades relations between the United States and […]
Russia’s troop replenishment crisis
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 28 January 2026 Russia’s troop replenishment crisis is not a mystery of arithmetic. She […]
Massacre: Russia strikes a civilian train
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 28 January 2026 The Russian strike carried out today against a civilian railway in […]
Stephen Miller in the White House and Ukraine policy
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 28 January 2026 Stephen Miller’s position in the second administration of Donald Trump marks […]
How has life in Ukrainian cities changed during the war?
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 28 January 2026 Ukraine’s cities in February 2022 were places of rupture. The familiar […]
China’s falling birth rate
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Wednesday 28 January 2026 China’s falling birth rate is one of the most consequential demographic developments […]
SAFE: Europe’s Defence Readiness Strategy for 2030
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 27 January 2026 In recent years Europe has been forced to confront a reality […]
Iran’s crackdown: the arithmetic of fear, and the deaths it leaves behind
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 27 January 2026 When a state decides that a protest is not a political […]
Pope Leo IV and Ukraine’s suffering
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 27 January 2026 There are moments when the world’s diplomatic language becomes so habitual […]
Ryanair and the reopening of Ukraine’s skies: discounts, risk and the prize for being first
By Matthew Parish, Associate Editor Tuesday 27 January 2026 There is a particular kind of optimism that arrives not in […]



