Opinion

When I was in London recently I tried withdrawing some cash from my British bank, but was denied access. On calling the bank I was asked if I had made …

If you are keeping score at home, September was a bad month for the “Axis of Evil,” especially for its junior member in Damascus. In the middle of the month, …

Branding has traits of parenting. Although it takes energy, vision, and a gutsy approach to business life — and as such is no small feat — the effort of conceiving …

During our holidays this summer we were fortunate to be able to stay with my wife’s extended Lebanese family on both the east and west coasts of the United States. …

The times they are changing, and they are changing fast. At the turn of the 20th century Frederick Cook and Robert Peary had to spend weeks on end in sledges …

Every which way you turn in Washington these days there is talk of war, all while the President George W. Bush is gearing up for a major Middle East peace …

Surplus cash from Middle East energy producing countries has been running around the world for over three decades, seeking better returns in offshore havens. However, since the 1970s, investments by …

The campaign for Iran’s next parliamentary campaign will not start officially until a couple of weeks before the poll in March 2008, but rising political temperatures in Tehran suggest the …

While the Middle East makes baby steps towards implementing greater financial transparency, accountability and the rule of law, the region’s best-known commodity — oil — lacks transparency in the way …

Waiting outside the UNHCR Iraqi registration center on the outskirts of Damascus, Khalid, a middle-age Iraqi father of four from Ramadi, points to his family and declares: “We don’t know …