The new Saudi vision: Return to the past for a better future
Although the speaker was the Saudi crown prince, and although he talked about Saudi Arabia and its society, his subject — facing extremism and...
Hezbollah… the fall of the last ‘fig leaf’
With the verdict issued recently by the Netherlands-based Special Tribunal for Lebanon in the assassination case of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri in...
How Pope Francis can win back the West and secure his church's future
When Pope Francis arrives in the United States Tuesday, he will encounter three broad groups of Catholics. There are those who feel energized about...
Saudi Arabia’s ‘image deficit’? We are part of the problem.
The recent attack on a British man by members of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (Haia) in...
Millions going hungry amid Coronavirus crisis
Tucked away in the largely unread center pages of the world’s press last week was a warning that should be ringing alarm bells in...
The New York Times should worry about New York, before Makkah
Criticism of Saudi Arabia in The New York Times is not unusual these days, but a front-page opinion column in its international edition demanding...
Saudis must be grateful to expatriate workers
The development witnessed by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia during the past 40 years is unparalleled anywhere in the world. No doubt this can...
The West is losing the battle for the heart of Europe
A little over a quarter of a century ago, Europe celebrated the healing of the schism that Communism enforced on it since World War...
Why Russia may be a smart business partner for Israel
Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir famously lamented that Moses "took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one...
What 100,000 U.S. boots on the ground get you in Syria
Speaking in Turkey after the terrible Paris murders of last Friday, President Barack Obama recently opposed any fundamental change in U.S. strategy towards Syria...
