https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ACCSgXbgIhs/hussein-ibish RSS for Node Mon, 11 May 2026 01:33:35 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-05-27/great-lebanon-bank-heist-needs-solving-for-imf-world-bank-bailout https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-05-27/great-lebanon-bank-heist-needs-solving-for-imf-world-bank-bailout Sat, 27 May 2023 04:00:20 GMT The Lebanese Lira follow down the value. In March 16, 2023, the exchange to USD 1 follow passing the 100.00 L.L. Still without president, and after the 2019 protests and the port explosion in Beirut, in 2020, the bad situation don't stop to grow. Protests follow happening in front of some Banks of Lebanon and in the Banque du Liban. (Photo Illustration by Lucas Neves/NurPhoto via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-05-10/saudi-uae-had-to-bring-assad-s-syria-back-into-arab-league https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-05-10/saudi-uae-had-to-bring-assad-s-syria-back-into-arab-league Wed, 10 May 2023 04:00:11 GMT TOPSHOT - Syrians wave national flags and carry a large portrait of their president as they celebrate in the streets of the capital Damascus, a day after an election set to give the current President Bashar al-Assad a fourth term, on May 27, 2021. - The election held yesterday in government-held areas was the second presidential vote in Syria since the start in 2011 of a war that has left over 388,000 dead. (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA / AFP) (Photo by LOUAI BESHARA/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-10/a-flirtation-with-china-won-t-rock-the-saudi-us-marriage https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-04-10/a-flirtation-with-china-won-t-rock-the-saudi-us-marriage Mon, 10 Apr 2023 04:00:35 GMT BEIJING, CHINA - MARCH 16: Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) invites Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (L) to view an honour guard during a welcoming ceremony inside the Great Hall of the People on March 16, 2017 in Beijing, China. At the invitation of President Xi Jinping, King Salman Bin Abdul-Aaziz Al-Saud of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will pay a state visit to China from March 15 to 18, 2017. (Photo by Lintao Zhang/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-18/firing-professor-who-showed-muhammad-for-islamophobia-harms-islam https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-18/firing-professor-who-showed-muhammad-for-islamophobia-harms-islam Wed, 18 Jan 2023 14:00:08 GMT TOPSHOT - Muslim devotees offer their Eid al-Adha prayers at Jama Masjid in the old quarters of New Delhi on July 10, 2022, the feast of the sacrifice marking the end of the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca and commemorates Prophet Abraham's readiness to sacrifice his son to show obedience to Allah. (Photo by Money SHARMA / AFP) (Photo by MONEY SHARMA/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-05/netanyahu-s-new-partners-waste-no-time-undermining-him https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2023-01-05/netanyahu-s-new-partners-waste-no-time-undermining-him Thu, 05 Jan 2023 05:00:12 GMT Palestinian protesters set on fire posters depicting Israeli far-right Minister of National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, during a rally in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, on January 4, 2023. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP) (Photo by SAID KHATIB/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-19/us-and-saudis-end-rift-over-oil-production-cuts-yemen-and-china https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-12-19/us-and-saudis-end-rift-over-oil-production-cuts-yemen-and-china Mon, 19 Dec 2022 05:00:19 GMT Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, and US President Joe Biden, greet with a fist bump in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on July 15, 2022. 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(Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT / AFP) (Photo by RONALDO SCHEMIDT/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-31/us-saudi-oil-feud-depends-on-midterms-opec-xi-jinping https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-31/us-saudi-oil-feud-depends-on-midterms-opec-xi-jinping Mon, 31 Oct 2022 05:00:09 GMT Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, and US President Joe Biden, greet with a fist bump in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on July 15, 2022. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-15/democrats-can-t-let-opec-spat-derail-us-saudi-relationship https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-10-15/democrats-can-t-let-opec-spat-derail-us-saudi-relationship Sat, 15 Oct 2022 04:00:10 GMT Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, right, and US President Joe Biden, greet with a fist bump in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on July 15, 2022. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-21/iran-claims-bahrain-to-shake-up-nuclear-talks-and-rebuff-israel https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-21/iran-claims-bahrain-to-shake-up-nuclear-talks-and-rebuff-israel Wed, 21 Sep 2022 04:00:27 GMT TOPSHOT - A Gulf Air A320 aeroplane coming from the Bahraini capital Manama arrives at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv on September 30, 2021. - The Gulf Air plane began the first commercial flight between Bahrain and Israel a year after the normalisation of diplomatic relations. (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP) (Photo by EMMANUEL DUNAND/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-01/moqtada-al-sadr-couldn-t-master-iraq-s-democracy-so-he-s-crushing-it https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-09-01/moqtada-al-sadr-couldn-t-master-iraq-s-democracy-so-he-s-crushing-it Thu, 01 Sep 2022 04:00:31 GMT TOPSHOT - A supporter of Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr carries the Iraqi flag as he walks down a road blocked by burning tyres during a demonstration in Iraq's southern city of Basra on August 29, 2022. - Dozens of angry supporters of the powerful cleric stormed the Republican Palace, a ceremonial building in the fortified Green Zone, a security source said, shortly after Sadr said he was quitting politics. The army has announced a Baghdad-wide curfew to start from 3:30 pm (1230 GMT). (Photo by Hussein Faleh / AFP) (Photo by HUSSEIN FALEH/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-08-19/latest-israeli-palestinian-conflict-on-the-gaza-strip-is-alarming https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-08-19/latest-israeli-palestinian-conflict-on-the-gaza-strip-is-alarming Fri, 19 Aug 2022 04:01:16 GMT GAZA, PALESTINE - 2022/08/10: Masked fighters from Saraya al-Quds, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine, participate in an anti-Israel military march in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Islamic Jihad began late Sunday evening, August 7, 2022, and three days of violence ended. (Photo by Yousef Masoud/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-30/iran-is-trying-to-play-the-saudis-against-the-us-it-won-t-work https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-30/iran-is-trying-to-play-the-saudis-against-the-us-it-won-t-work Sat, 30 Jul 2022 07:00:28 GMT TOPSHOT - US President Joe Biden (C-L) and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (C) arrive for the family photo during the Jeddah Security and Development Summit (GCC+3) at a hotel in Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on July 16, 2022. (Photo by MANDEL NGAN / POOL / AFP) (Photo by MANDEL NGAN/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-11/biden-can-unite-israel-and-saudi-arabia-to-meet-iran-threat https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-11/biden-can-unite-israel-and-saudi-arabia-to-meet-iran-threat Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:00:06 GMT PYEONGTAEK, SOUTH KOREA - MAY 22: U.S. President Joe Biden boards Air Force One to leave Japan after his South Korea trip at Osan Air Force Base on May 22, 2022 in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. U.S. President Joe Biden and President Yoon Suk-yeol agreed to begin discussions on expanding joint military exercises between the two countries amid growing nuclear and missile threats from North Korea. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji - Pool/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-23/biden-can-repair-a-rift-and-push-human-rights-in-saudi-arabia https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-06-23/biden-can-repair-a-rift-and-push-human-rights-in-saudi-arabia Thu, 23 Jun 2022 13:00:32 GMT TOPSHOT - Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman attends the Future Investment Initiative (FII) conference in the Saudi capital Riyadh on October 23, 2018. - Saudi Arabia is hosting the key investment summit overshadowed by the killing of critic Jamal Khashoggi that has prompted a wave of policymakers and corporate giants to withdraw. (Photo by FAYEZ NURELDINE / AFP) (Photo credit should read FAYEZ NURELDINE/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-04/ukraine-war-israel-saudi-arabia-uae-iran-and-syria-feel-u-s-russia-squeeze https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-04/ukraine-war-israel-saudi-arabia-uae-iran-and-syria-feel-u-s-russia-squeeze Fri, 04 Mar 2022 06:00:16 GMT Frenemies? https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-02/saudi-crown-prince-mbs-is-rewriting-history-to-shrink-islamic-past https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-03-02/saudi-crown-prince-mbs-is-rewriting-history-to-shrink-islamic-past Wed, 02 Mar 2022 06:00:16 GMT The revolution has been televised. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-04/amnesty-international-erred-by-calling-israel-an-apartheid-state https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-02-04/amnesty-international-erred-by-calling-israel-an-apartheid-state Fri, 04 Feb 2022 08:30:12 GMT A woman holds a sign that reads "End Israeli Apartheid" during a vigil in solidarity with Palestinian calls for a general strike and day of action organized by Falastiniyat in Seattle, Washington on May 18, 2021. (Photo by Jason Redmond / AFP) (Photo by JASON REDMOND/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-26/saudis-and-uae-are-caught-in-the-middle-of-the-u-s-china-cold-war https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-11-26/saudis-and-uae-are-caught-in-the-middle-of-the-u-s-china-cold-war Fri, 26 Nov 2021 08:00:35 GMT Emperor Xi and King Salman.