Saad Hariri’s resignation highlights Hezbollah’s malignant role in Lebanon
What a difference a few months make. Back in the summer when I mentioned having second thoughts about visiting Beirut, Prime Minister Saad Hariri...
Coexistence is a Divine Law
Islam came with things that build life on Earth, and then prevented what spoiled it. Therefore, Allah put laws in order to care with...
How Antonin Scalia's death reshapes the 2016 election
The U.S. Supreme Court is supposed to be the solution to gridlock. But as the death of Associate Justice Antonin Scalia makes painfully apparent,...
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...
At last, some order in Lebanon’s finances
Political settlement in Lebanon has been brought back to life. This is because the Lebanese parliament has passed its first budget since 2005, the...
Ushering in the new digital era
We are living a new reality. The ways we socialize, exercise, work, travel, consume and trade have been updated, like new software on our...
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...
Republican candidates field a resistance movement against change
Look at the slogans Republican presidential candidates are running on: "Make America great again" (Donald Trump); "Believe again" (Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal); "Reigniting the...
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...
