Opinion

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 …

For hundreds of years, travelers have criss-crossed Lebanon’s mountains and valleys in search of ancient mysteries and hidden treasures, or just to marvel at their majestic splendor. From Alexander Kinglake …

Any hopes Syria attached to a swift resumption of peace talks with Israel — brokered by the new administration of US President Barack Obama — appear to have been undermined …

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has become another ‘global crisis’. It took the hijacking of a US ship last month and the media hyped antics of the US Navy …

The setting up of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in the mid-1990s was supposed to have put the world economy on the path to multilateral trade liberalization. Yet, bilateral and …

If the G-20 April meeting in London could be summarized in two words, they are regulation and internationalization. “Major failures in financial regulation and supervision were fundamental causes of the …

In late March President Barack Obama unveiled his new policy for dealing with the war in Afghanistan, a conflict that is escalating and drawing the United States into deeper involvement …

The ‘third way’ is associated with both Tony Blair and Bill Clinton, but pitching for the middle ground is one of the oldest and most effective electoral strategies. Mir-Hossein Musavi, …

It is amazing how the oil-rich countries of the Persian Gulf have this ability to zoom in on the most insignificant detail about their country and transform it into something …

Dubai has been getting a lot of negative coverage in the media lately. One story stands out in particular, i.e. the frequently spouted ‘3,000 cars abandoned at Dubai airport,’ which …