Daesh: You Canât Stop âEm All
The cellphones of dead people were still ringing inside the Pulse nightclub on June 12 when Cathy Lanier,…
IN PHOTOS: The Race for Presidency
THE RACE FOR THE PRESIDENCY YOU BETTER WATCH IT: On November 4, 2015, U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald…
From Colombia With Love
Years later when his fatherâs supermarket in Damascus was gone, Almotaz Bellah would remember the delight he once…
No Sacred Space
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is undergoing its third round of municipal elections. The first round was held…
Witnessing OPECâs Demise
With oil prices down by some 70 percent from mid-2014 and touching multi-year lows, economies across the globe…
Muslim, Man Up?
The image of the Muslim man in the popular imagination: conflicted, beset with issues as to his identity,…
Seeds of Growth
At the start of 2016, the Middle East feels battered and bruised. For many of us who take…
Saudi Arabia: The Bold And The Dutiful
Over the past century, three countries have led the Middle Eastâs political hegemony: Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran.…
Dirty Border Games
In mid-April, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held his first-ever cabinet session atop the mountains of the occupied…
Casus Belli
After five years of continuously worsening conflict in Syria, the chances of any decisive outcome are bleak at…
Palestine: Hungry for Freedom
On February 26, Palestinian journalist Mohammad Al Qeeq ended what has widely been reported as one of the…
From GCC, With Love: A Letter to Donald Trump
âO Captain! My Captain!â is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865 by Walt Whitman about the death…
To Uphold an Oath
Kos, GreeceâAt its zenith, Kos had once revolutionized the field of medical ethics. Hippocrates and his disciples had…
Egyptâs Own: Repatriation of Antiquities Proves to be a Mammoth Task
In 1815, an Italian strongman-turned-explorer and archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities, Giovanni Belzoni, traveled to Thebes, upper Egypt to…
EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim Khaddam
âI cannot imagine how the war in Syria will endâŠI believe that the U.S. administration, perhaps, is no…
Iraq: Make or Break
Even by the standards of the ever-dramatic world of Iraqi politics, todayâs stakes are at a current high.…
What Lies Beneath
When Iraqâs Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi signaled the launch of the offensive to regain Mosul, the last…
The Problem With Kuwaitâs Higher Education
Twelve years ago, Kuwait took a decision to build a new public university known as the Sabah Al…
Chilcot and the Great Game
The story of why Britain invaded Iraq with the U.S. is of a once-powerful empire yearning for its former military stature in the world.…
Crafting Stability
The horrors of Daesh and Al Qaeda have reached such a level of barbarity and violence that we…
Truth and Lies
Ever since the the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip began in 1967, successive…
Blurred Future
Earlier this month, under the cover of rain and thick fog, several Hezbollah fighters snuck across the Lebanese…
Minority Report: The Tech Life
Walking around Dubaiâs GITEX exhibition this year, nothing from the wide array of âtechâ products on display caught…
Ethiopia: Wild South
Itâs said that fortune favors the bold; in a region of chancers and missed opportunities there are occasions…