Time for a new Sykes-Picot Agreement to fix the Middle East
It's time to renegotiate the contract that put the Middle East together.
The "contract" is the 1916 Sykes-Picot Agreement, which divided up most of the...
Do China's ghost cities offer a solution to Europe's migrant crisis?
Nearly 150,000 Syrian refugees have already claimed asylum in Europe and tens of thousands more are flooding the borders in search of places to...
I was held in Iran for 13 months This is why I think Jason...
Everything that's been happening to Jason Rezaian and his family over the past 15 months feels familiar.
Jason Rezaian is a journalist. I'm also a...
Need to confront dangers within Lebanon rather than locating Hariri’s whereabouts
Is the real “substantial” problem in Lebanon today about the form of Prime Minister Saad Hariri’s resignation and where he resigned from? Or is...
New era blows away illusory insecurities
When we, all our lives, have a good time, we think we have it all but, in reality, it’s just an illusion, for a...
Turkey may be considering putting US ties above Russia
There have been some timid steps taken to save Turkish-American relations from their current difficult situation.
One was a statement by Turkey’s presidential spokesman Ibrahim...
NEOM a new life generation; a proposition immune to death
Masayoshi Son is not just the richest man in the world or just the leader of investment in modern technology and just the leader...
U.S. shale oil output will be less resilient than gas
U.S. natural gas production hit a new record in August, despite the deepening slump in gas prices and a fall in the number of...
Governments cannot ignore mental health pandemic
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) crisis has transformed our world into a dystopian nightmare that keeps intensifying, with little clarity about the months ahead. Governments...
Well done, America, you’ve crushed Daesh. Now what?
Of all the cities in the Middle East that have been flattened in the past five years, and the list is long, Raqqa has...
