[escenic_image id="55143816"]Given its global presence, an in situ analysis of the affects of China’s meteoric rise on regional financial systems is…

[escenic_image id="55143773"]Almost a decade after the September 11 attacks, America is still at war with politically-based religious groups and…

[escenic_image id="55143676"]The most recent report released by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA) states that…

[escenic_image id="55136500"]In June, a team of American geologists working in Afghanistan discovered a massive trove of minerals believed to be…

[escenic_image id="55133321"]With skullcaps on their heads, five students aged between 18 and 40 hunch over a text in Arabic. In front of them, legs…

[escenic_image id="55144526"]After months in which it was not clear just how influential the Tea Party would be and if the anger it channeled would…

[escenic_image id="55144538"] Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East Bernard Lewis Oxford University Press 2010 £10.49 …

[escenic_image id="55156793"]The celebrated American writer Mark Twain once said that “the difference between the right word and the almost right…

[escenic_image id="5576184"]The impending sale of billions of dollars of additional US weapons to Saudi Arabia, if realized, could achieve a major…

[escenic_image id="55156060"]In markets like Khan El-Khalili in the old city of Cairo, or indeed in any other Arab souk, the shops, courtyards and…