Opinion

With the Crash of ‘08 ushering in the 2009 worldwide slump, it is clear that the economic crisis will hit richer countries more than others. According to the Organization for …

President George W. Bush wanted to make history — he will. The bad news for the president is that he will certainly not be remembered the way he would have …

Many years ago, an Indian friend of mine living in Dubai said to me, “If you want to send a plane to anywhere in the world, including the North Pole, …

November 4, 2008 was exactly 13 years from the day Yigal Amir killed then-Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, out of fear for the latter’s intention to conclude a peace with …

Change in the White House looms as Washington’s political class senses that the old adversary Iran is more open to pressure. There is a tempting parallel with the collapse of …

The Middle East as a region has a ‘brand image’ problem. War, terrorism and — in the words of a soon-to-be- departing US president — evil, are terms that still …

For a change, the news from Washington was positive and well received around the world, including the Middle East. Upon his victory on November 4, Barack Obama received messages of …

In the 21st century, the problems of Arab industrial exports have been aggravated by more open markets. In particular, the region’s textile and clothing (T&C) industry is in flux, with …

The past year appears to have been a good one for Jordan; was the same true regarding the well-being of average Jordanians? On the positive side, the country continues opening …

Economic indices have become even more popular over the past few years with, for example, the numbers churned out by the World Bank and International Finance Corporation’s annual Ease of …