Can Obama fulfil the hype around his eastern promise?
Barack Obama’s first name derives from the Arabic for ‘blessing’, but would a President Obama be good news for the Middle East?
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USA
Hillary Clinton’s curse of the pharaohs
Hillary Clinton seems to suffer from the age-old pharaoh’s curse afflicting women seeking to lead a nation.
Read MoreSigns of the times in New York
New York is plastered with notices – some of them carrying rather obvious instructions. It’s a new kind of visual pollution.
Read MoreIn search of Arab authors in English literature
The Arab world is in desperate need of more English language novelists to bring home the realities of life in the region.
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