by Natalie Hilder | Apr 22, 2021 | Articles
The sun was partially visible through the cloudy April sky on Koh Samui, Deen’s favourite vacation spot in the Gulf of Thailand. Opting for a coffee before his late morning ritual of driving around the small lush island, Deen pulled his rental car up to a Starbucks....
by Natalie Hilder | Jan 3, 2021 | Articles
On this day 102 years ago, two visionaries sought to create an Arab-Jewish alliance to combat their mutual enemy of colonialism and to ensure that both Arabs and Jews would collaborate for their reciprocal self-actualization, when they signed the Faisal-Weizmann...
by Natalie Hilder | Dec 15, 2020 | Articles
In our globalized world of divisive politics and strained interpersonal relationships, the remedy to animosity must meet both the challenges and the opportunities available to us today. According to Aristotle, we are all either “political animals” or outcasts that...
by Natalie Hilder | Nov 22, 2020 | Articles
The emergence of the Abraham Accords was met with global astonishment—and jubilation, for the most part—but did this seemingly unprecedented peace agreement actually materialize much later than it could have? Perhaps it was the necropolis of unsuccessful Western...
by Natalie Hilder | Sep 25, 2020 | Articles
Hope — long deferred — materialized on the South Lawn of the White House on September 15, when leaders from the UAE, Bahrain, and Israel officially normalized relations. The Arab nations publicly recognized Israel’s right to exist, and all concerned parties...
by Natalie Hilder | Sep 5, 2020 | Articles
The challenges surrounding the Arab-Israeli conflict have become so mythologized in our collective mentality that the idea of actually implementing viable and widespread mutually beneficial peace agreements between these groups was often considered to either be...
