Over the past 10 years, the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) reports have identified the state of Arab environment in all its aspects and...
For any investor interested in Africa, there is only one place to be this week: Johannesburg.
Ten years after the global economic crisis, the world is increasingly more vulnerable.
Shuhada al-Sharqiya, a group in Jarablus affiliated with the Free Syrian Army (which is controlled by Turkish-led Euphrates Shield factions), announced it was...
After a tense few days, courtesy of a fiery speech over the weekend by Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah that seemed to smother any possibility of a...
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah didn’t mince words over the weekend, coming out with a loud-and-clear, “My way or the highway,” abandoning any...
One of the assumptions that economists sometimes use to frame their models is to specify that some variables will be held constant, a concept that’s expressed...
When confronting bad news these days, many tend to assume that it’s just a bump on the road and that things will work out.
What we care about most is often our undoing.
Under Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, the United Kingdom will leave the European Union on March 29, 2019.
The scourge of human trafficking is an issue that leaders of all faiths must take very seriously. One of the first things that Pope Francis did when he was...
The United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union is rapidly unraveling. The “Chequers plan” upon which British Prime Minister Theresa May has based her...
It is commonplace to hear and read about President Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party. And certainly there is lots of evidence that the GOP is...
Recent wars in Iraq, Libya, Syria and Yemen have helped push regional defense spending already the highest in the world to new heights.
Over the past 15 years, China has fueled one of the most dramatic and geographically far-reaching surges in official peacetime lending in history.
Far from settling the question of the United Kingdom’s future, the 2016 Brexit referendum and subsequent negotiations with the European Union have triggered a...
Just seven months ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin won re-election, for the fourth time, with 77 percent of the vote.
Donald Trump may not want to launch wars in the Middle East, but that doesn’t mean he’s getting the United States out of the regime-change business.
When was the last time you sat down and wrote a letter?
With the approach of this year’s midterm elections in the United States, domestic terrorism is starting to dominate the political landscape.
From a distance, the Tree of Life Synagogue now looks like another American crime scene.
The last two centuries have witnessed four waves of paradigm shifts in the nature of our economic and social systems.
To the future minister of state for women’s affairs: Consider this a welcome in advance to your new role.
During a television interview on Sept. 24, Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi announced the end of Tunisia’s consensus policy (tawafouk), saying, “The...
Global markets, policymakers and risk managers are watching the budget skirmish between Italy’s government and the European Commission closely.
The 95th anniversary of the proclamation of the Republic of Turkey on Oct. 29, 2018, provides a good opportunity to make a short assessment on the...
The conclusion of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s most recent report is stark: climate action is far more urgent than...
It is often said that the U.S. and China superpowers at economic, geopolitical and ideological loggerheads are heading toward a new cold war.
It is easy to assume that access to the digital economy is ubiquitous, and that online shopping is the natural evolution of commerce.