OOn the Cover Read More3 minute read Cry, For My Son, For His FreedombyNewsWeekMe WriterDecember 4, 2020 On August 14, 2009 he wrote: “I am trying to stay strong. Ma, today I talk to you…
OOn the Cover Read More10 minute read In The Line of DutybyNewsWeekMe WriterMarch 24, 2018 On the surface of it, the suffrage of Saudi women hits all the right notes: Gender, votes, power,…
OOn the Cover Read More21 minute read Captive SyriabyNewsWeekMe WriterOctober 10, 2017 No sunlight enters the dingy, oxygen-less cell. Six by ten meters in length, each identical to the other two dozen,…
OOn the Cover Read More11 minute read Americans Elect Trump President – HOW?!byNewsWeekMe WriterOctober 9, 2017 What started as a joke for many, when Donald Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency of the…
OOn the Cover Read More8 minute read UAE: Meet the World’s Youngest MinisterbyNewsWeekMe WriterSeptember 4, 2017 EARLIER this year in February, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Vice President and Prime Minister, Sheikh Mohammed bin…
OOn the Cover Read More9 minute read Weaponizing Global FinancebyNewsWeekMe WriterJuly 25, 2017 Looking back at the American-led response to the 9/11 attacks, it is difficult to find clear-cut successes tied…
OOn the Cover Read More8 minute read Education: Is It Just A Business?byNewsWeekMe WriterJuly 24, 2017 In a bustling emirate that has unquestionably turned into the Middle East’s main business hub over the past…
OOn the Cover Read More12 minute read MENA Soft PowerbyNewsWeekMe WriterJuly 13, 2017 Germany, Europe’s largest economy, is led by a woman—Angela Merkel. The United States may just elect its first…
OOn the Cover Read More13 minute read How The Settlers WonbyNewsWeekMe WriterJune 29, 2017 Har Bracha is a Jewish business situated near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. Established in 2004, its…
OOn the Cover Read More9 minute read In the Line of DutybyNewsWeekMe WriterJune 26, 2017 Sometime ago, before writing an article on civil-military relations, I decided to do a simple experiment. I asked…
OOn the Cover Read More8 minute read Qatar Airways CEO: Building A DreambyNewsWeekMe WriterJune 23, 2017 Time is in short order when you are pushing your country’s national carrier forward in a fiercely competitive,…
OOn the Cover Read More9 minute read Islamophobia: The OutsidersbyNewsWeekMe WriterJune 22, 2017 In the time it takes you to read this piece, it is possible that another anti-Muslim incident might…
OOn the Cover Read More11 minute read Dial 9-11 For JASTAbyNewsWeekMe WriterApril 3, 2017 Justice and security are on the minds of many Americans commemorating September 11 this week, as newly de-classified…
OOn the Cover Read More8 minute read Debtors Shall Not Go to Jail, Unless…byNewsWeekMe WriterApril 3, 2017 Mature economies have proven the need to implement a modern bankruptcy law in each country that wishes to…
OOn the Cover Read More7 minute read Seeking Peace: GCC States on Regional ConflictsbyNewsWeekMe WriterApril 3, 2017 Their voices were calm and measured, but as Gulf leaders addressed the U.N. General Assembly in New York…
OOn the Cover Read More8 minute read A Crisis At HandbyNewsWeekMe WriterFebruary 22, 2017 Mohammed, a Lebanese man in his thirties, spends his days worrying about how he will repay the loans…
OOn the Cover Read More7 minute read Modi’s 56-Inch Chest BindbyNewsWeekMe WriterFebruary 1, 2017 In the run-up to the 2014 national elections in India, one of the metaphors Narendra Modi, the Bharatya…
OOn the Cover Read More4 minute read The Battle WithinbyNewsWeekMe WriterDecember 14, 2016 “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored…
OOn the Cover Read More9 minute read Narendra Modi’s Black Money MovebyNewsWeekMe WriterNovember 22, 2016 India is either in the throes of a man-made cash crisis or on the verge of a new…
OOn the Cover Read More17 minute read Haya Bint Al Hussein: A Princess on a MissionbyNewsWeekMe WriterNovember 15, 2016 I feel good when we are able t0 bring in the aid to those in need says HRH…
OOn the Cover Read More10 minute read Turkey: The Night the Soldiers CamebyNewsWeekMe WriterJuly 20, 2016 I was in a café on the Anatolian side of Istanbul with two Turkish friends when they both…
OOn the Cover Read More20 minute read Turkey: GaggedbyNewsWeekMe WriterJuly 1, 2016 Right now Turkey’s global importance as a democratic power is on shaky ground. Any media that are deemed…
OOn the Cover Read More9 minute read Somalia: Hope SpringsbyNewsWeekMe WriterJune 20, 2016 Fatima Jibrell’s bleak outlook is evident. “We have no drinking water in Badhan today.” For the pastoralists of…
OOn the Cover Read More3 minute read Instagram Attracting More Advertising than Twitter: SurveybyNewsWeekMe WriterJune 10, 2016 SAN FRANCISCO, June 10 – Advertising agencies are for the first time turning to Instagram more frequently than…
OOn the Cover Read More10 minute read Our Man In London?byNewsWeekMe WriterMay 11, 2016 For a site that has served as a historical symbol of christian influence for over a thousand years,…
OOn the Cover Read More6 minute read Palestine: Childhood LostbyNewsWeekMe WriterMay 10, 2016 It took 12-year-old Dima Al Wawi’s parents some serious persuasion to get their daughter to talk. But even…
OOn the Cover Read More8 minute read Yemen: War-Zone BabiesbyNewsWeekMe WriterApril 6, 2016 One Thursday in February, Rasha Al Shwafi began to feel sick. Heavily pregnant with twins, she initially passed…
OOn the Cover Read More9 minute read Yemen: The Abandoned Animals of TaizbyNewsWeekMe WriterMarch 23, 2016 THE citizens of Yemen’s Taiz city have been dealt many blows in recent months. Conflict, hunger, isolation and…
OOn the Cover Read More9 minute read Saudi Arabia: The End of OilbyNewsWeekMe WriterMarch 2, 2016 “The wake-up call has arrived. The politics of waste must end,” Khaled Al Maeena says in his 27th…
OOn the Cover Read More7 minute read Captain Emirates: Flying HighbyNewsWeekMe WriterFebruary 22, 2016 Sitting behind his desk checking his computer, Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum has little time to spare.…