FFeatures Read More20 minute read Daesh: You Can’t Stop ‘Em AllbyNewsWeekMe WriterOctober 27, 2020 The cellphones of dead people were still ringing inside the Pulse nightclub on June 12 when Cathy Lanier,…
FFeatures Read More3 minute read IN PHOTOS: The Race for PresidencybyNewsWeekMe WriterAugust 4, 2020 THE RACE FOR THE PRESIDENCY YOU BETTER WATCH IT: On November 4, 2015, U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald…
FFeatures Read More5 minute read From Colombia With LovebyNewsWeekMe WriterJune 7, 2020 Years later when his father’s supermarket in Damascus was gone, Almotaz Bellah would remember the delight he once…
FFeatures Read More3 minute read No Sacred SpacebyNewsWeekMe WriterMarch 31, 2019 The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is undergoing its third round of municipal elections. The first round was held…
FFeatures Read More4 minute read Witnessing OPEC’s DemisebyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 29, 2018 With oil prices down by some 70 percent from mid-2014 and touching multi-year lows, economies across the globe…
FFeatures Read More9 minute read Muslim, Man Up?byNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 29, 2018 The image of the Muslim man in the popular imagination: conflicted, beset with issues as to his identity,…
FFeatures Read More4 minute read Seeds of GrowthbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 24, 2018 At the start of 2016, the Middle East feels battered and bruised. For many of us who take…
FFeatures Read More4 minute read Saudi Arabia: The Bold And The DutifulbyNewsWeekMe WriterMarch 18, 2018 Over the past century, three countries have led the Middle East’s political hegemony: Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Iran.…
FFeatures Read More7 minute read Dirty Border GamesbyNewsWeekMe WriterJanuary 23, 2018 In mid-April, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held his first-ever cabinet session atop the mountains of the occupied…
FFeatures Read More6 minute read Casus BellibyNewsWeekMe WriterDecember 25, 2017 After five years of continuously worsening conflict in Syria, the chances of any decisive outcome are bleak at…
FFeatures Read More6 minute read Palestine: Hungry for FreedombyNewsWeekMe WriterNovember 14, 2017 On February 26, Palestinian journalist Mohammad Al Qeeq ended what has widely been reported as one of the…
FFeatures Read More6 minute read From GCC, With Love: A Letter to Donald TrumpbyNewsWeekMe WriterNovember 2, 2017 “O Captain! My Captain!” is an extended metaphor poem written in 1865 by Walt Whitman about the death…
FFeatures Read More15 minute read Egypt’s Own: Repatriation of Antiquities Proves to be a Mammoth TaskbyNewsWeekMe WriterOctober 21, 2017 In 1815, an Italian strongman-turned-explorer and archaeologist of Egyptian antiquities, Giovanni Belzoni, traveled to Thebes, upper Egypt to…
FFeatures Read More12 minute read EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Former Syrian Vice President Abdul Halim KhaddambyNewsWeekMe WriterOctober 10, 2017 “I cannot imagine how the war in Syria will end…I believe that the U.S. administration, perhaps, is no…
FFeatures Read More6 minute read Iraq: Make or BreakbyNewsWeekMe WriterOctober 8, 2017 Even by the standards of the ever-dramatic world of Iraqi politics, today’s stakes are at a current high.…
FFeatures Read More6 minute read What Lies BeneathbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 23, 2017 When Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi signaled the launch of the offensive to regain Mosul, the last…
FFeatures Read More5 minute read The Problem With Kuwait’s Higher EducationbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 19, 2017 Twelve years ago, Kuwait took a decision to build a new public university known as the Sabah Al…
FFeatures Read More5 minute read The Problem With Kuwait’s Higher EducationbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 19, 2017 Twelve years ago, Kuwait took a decision to build a new public university known as the Sabah Al…
FFeatures Read More8 minute read Chilcot and the Great GamebyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 15, 2017 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.…
FFeatures Read More9 minute read Crafting StabilitybyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 14, 2017 The horrors of Daesh and Al Qaeda have reached such a level of barbarity and violence that we…
FFeatures Read More4 minute read Truth and LiesbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 9, 2017 Ever since the the Israeli military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip began in 1967, successive…
FFeatures Read More5 minute read War in Yemen: Shoulder to ShoulderbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 9, 2017 When the Houthis tried to take over Taiz in March 2015, residents of the western Yemeni province banded…
FFeatures Read More6 minute read Blurred FuturebyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 9, 2017 Earlier this month, under the cover of rain and thick fog, several Hezbollah fighters snuck across the Lebanese…
FFeatures Read More3 minute read Where is Palestine?byNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 8, 2017 Google was at the center of a storm recently, after a group of Palestinian journalists claimed that the…
FFeatures Read More4 minute read Minority Report: The Tech LifebyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 4, 2017 Walking around Dubai’s GITEX exhibition this year, nothing from the wide array of “tech” products on display caught…
FFeatures Read More8 minute read Ethiopia: Wild SouthbyNewsWeekMe WriterAugust 27, 2017 It’s said that fortune favors the bold; in a region of chancers and missed opportunities there are occasions…
FFeatures Read More5 minute read Algeria: What Lies AheadbyNewsWeekMe WriterAugust 23, 2017 For years, Africa’s largest country ––a heavyweight energy producer as well as a key regional player––has been regarded…
FFeatures Read More4 minute read Countering FearbyNewsWeekMe WriterAugust 21, 2017 Two words guaranteed global infamy for fake terrorists this month: Allahu Akbar—Arabic for “God is the greatest.” They…
FFeatures Read More11 minute read EXCLUSIVE: Interview with Kurdish Intel Chief Lahur TalabanibyNewsWeekMe WriterAugust 21, 2017 Lahur Talabani’s journey to the forefront of the global war on terror began in the spring of 2002.…
FFeatures Read More5 minute read Yemen: Stairwell LessonsbyNewsWeekMe WriterAugust 20, 2017 Schools in one of Yemen’s largest cities, Taiz, are not empty. But they are not filled with students,…