Egypt's economy is going from bad to worse. Unemployment is up, the budget deficit is growing and the value of the Egyptian pound has sunk. Millions of poor Egyptians are dependent on subsidized b...
If anyone saw last week’s US-Russian agreement to convene a peace conference on Syria as a potential breakthrough, Western leaders have been going out of their way to disabuse them.
Internation...
Unfortunately, my predictions were right. Neither Hilal nor Nassr made the semifinals of the King’s Cup football tournament. Nassr lost 3-1 again and Hilal which only needed a 1-0 victory couldn’t kee...
A flurry of diplomatic activity on Syria has boosted hopes for a political solution to resolve what has become a global and regional challenge. Last week’s announcement in Moscow by US Secretary...
What happened? This is the question on the lips of the many shocked supporters of Imran Khan leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) a day after the May 11 general elections.
In the lead up to t...
Apparently many Israelis are revisiting the view expressed by David Ben Gurion, one of Israel’s founding fathers, that Arab countries are artificially created out of the Ottoman Empire and that...
