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?
Read MoreBarack Obama’s first name derives from the Arabic for ‘blessing’, but would a President Obama be good news for the Middle East?
Read MoreHillary Clinton seems to suffer from the age-old pharaoh’s curse afflicting women seeking to lead a nation.
Read MoreNew York is plastered with notices – some of them carrying rather obvious instructions. It’s a new kind of visual pollution.
Read MoreThe Arab world is in desperate need of more English language novelists to bring home the realities of life in the region.
Read MoreTighter security measures will not help to tackle a homegrown terror threat that has grown out of Britain’s military misadventures abroad and failed policies at home.
Read MoreIf the Annapolis peace conference fails, then Palestinians should abandon their national struggle and demand their civil rights from Israel.
Read MoreThe controversial visit to Britain by the Saudi monarch highlighted the need for a more equitable alternative to the client state model.
Read MoreThe hypocrisy of the US Congress’s cynical manipulation of the Armenian genocide is a slur on the memories of those who perished.
Read MoreWhen Americans think of harems, their minds drift to the ‘mystical’ East. But in the 21st century, the harem meets the American dream much closer to home.
Read MoreThe unpolished US appearances of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s demonstrate just how bad at modern diplomacy the regime in Tehran is.
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