Opinion

Lebanon first applied to join the World Trade Organization in 1999, but now, a decade later, the country’s accession is still not a done deal — a time lag far …

Most people will be familiar with Joseph Goebbels’ famous line: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Yet what …

Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum, ruler of Dubai and vice president of the United Arab Emirates, likes nothing better than foreign media reports depicting his emirate as the “economic …

At a Washington Institute for Near East Policy conference in October 2007, Walid Jumblatt was asked by Dennis Ross, now Barack Obama’s point man on Iran, what Washington could do …

March 14 can claim a major — and unexpected — victory at the polls, but they’ll have to pay close attention to Lebanon’s real balance of power if they want …

The re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the subsequent violence in Tehran deepens the challenges facing American President Barack Obama in his desire for engagement with Iran. Ahmadinejad does not …

At the Invest Iraq conference, held last month in London, a flood of investment projects and opportunities were presented by the Iraqi government to more than 250 foreign investors from …

It’s been 19 years since Saddam Hussein’s army invaded Kuwait, and six years since the United States led the invasion that overthrew the dictator, but Kuwait is still demanding reparations …

There has been a sudden change of pace in the Middle East peace-making process. After almost eight years of stagnation, of summit meetings that led to absolutely nothing other than …

Egypt has seen scores of human cases of bird flu, the largest number in any country outside Asia, since the first known appearance of the H5N1 virus in humans more …