Davos: With the Saudis absent, Zarif’s fairy tales prevailed
Iranian Foreign Minster Mohammad Javad Zarif certainly got a free ride at this year’s World Economic Forum. His views on the region went completely...
A bold plan and a big challenge
It is a tall order that the deputy crown prince Mohammed bin Salman has placed so emphatically on the table: to wean his country’s...
Oil torn between fundamentals and hedge fund positions
Successful trading rule No.1: do not enter any significant position until you have worked out an eventual exit strategy.
Rule No.1 is especially important if...
The real reason China's leader jailed so many of his peers
While speaking to tech leaders in Seattle on Tuesday, Chinese President Xi Jinping denied that his pursuit of corrupt officials was a "House of...
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...
Palestinians offered an opening by US senators’ letter
Eight US senators have urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to provide aid to Palestinians living in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and in the Gaza Strip...
Virus crisis a wakeup call for all of us
It’s microscopic, fast and mysterious; an invisible, sneaky enemy that does not differentiate between old and young, rich and poor, strong and weak, whoever...
The tragedy of Europe Location, location, location
For years, skeptics warned of multiple threats to the European project. The strains of the single currency, they said, would rip it apart. Excessive...
New perspectives on Sadat
Four decades have elapsed since the historic visit of late Egyptian president Anwar Al-Sadat to Jerusalem. Different, and in fact more often than not...
