2007

Hillary Clinton was the clear front-runner for the Democratic Party’s Presidential nomination even before Barack Obama’s series of foreign policy gaffes left voters wondering if the man who said he …

It’s Saturday night at White, the rooftop bar on the edge of the beleaguered Beirut Central District. The affluent 30-something crowd, many of whom live and work in the GCC, …

Slump? What slump? If you listen to some of the pundits, one would be forgiven for thinking that the Beirut real-estate sector had forgotten the country is on the edge …

As the rumors of a strike on Iran continue, with US saber rattling an almost weekly occurrence — lately over Hizbullah agents in Iraq, and al-Qaeda allegedly using Iran as …

Last month, the United Nations and the World Bank released global performance reports on private sector immersion and country level achievements in the crucial areas of social responsibility and governance. …

Over the coming years, Saudi Arabia is likely to experience a sharp increase in its healthcare needs. Most observers believe that population growth, a slowly aging society, and the conditions …

Any proper understanding of the debt phenomenon in Lebanon requires a short historical review of how this huge amount of debt could have piled up. It is to be noted …

In July, a controversy erupted when two Israel journalists traveling under foreign passports came to Lebanon to report on the country a year after the summer 2006 war. The pair, …

The Cuban missile crisis began in 1961 when the US started to deploy 15 Jupiter IRBM — intermediate-range ballistic missiles — in Turkey, close to the Soviet border. With a …

DUBAI: “First Salik violator spotted,” read a prominent headline on one Gulf daily last month. It led into a description of how a renegade Nissan Altima driver had been caught …