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Egypt reacted furiously, even threatening war, when five upstream Nile countries signed an agreement in May denying Egypt its veto power over any project anywhere along the world’s longest river, …

If Cairo is the Hollywood of the Middle East, Beirut might aptly be called the region’s Vancouver, where canny filmmakers regularly recreate glamorous locations for a fraction of their on-location …

Last year may have marked a renaissance for Lebanon’s tourism industry, with the 1.8 million-plus visitors far eclipsing the pre-civil war high of 1.4 million in 1974, but 2010 looks …

The policy of aggressive democracy promotion in the Middle East, a hallmark of former United States President George W. Bush’s administration, seems to have been sidelined by his successor in …

For the aficionados, dog fighting is more than a sport — it is a platform to play God with the violence of Darwin’s natural selection. “I have Hitler’s mentality,” says …

It has been called the “logistics Super Bowl” and compared to reversing a faucet or shoving a basketball though a narrow pipe. But despite the amusing turns of phrase, the …

It was an election campaign colored with glittering posters flooding the country’s streets, countless party political conferences and female candidates campaigning actively on the ground. This is the new Iraq …

If Lebanon used its natural resources to its advantage, oil could be one of its main crude exports — olive oil, that is. With the ideal climate for olive growing …

Imagine you are the chief executive officer of a major multinational company. Your core business is selling fast-moving consumer goods with a solid majority presence in all of the world’s …