[escenic_image id="55160856"]KABUL: The Pashtun warlord’s son arranged our audience in the plush living room of a villa thronged by petitioners and…

[escenic_image id="55160846"] Ethnicities and Global Multiculture: Pants for an octopus Jan Nederveen Pieterse Rowman and Littlefield Publshers…

[escenic_image id="55160305"]Yes, he is the father of the euro, the European currency. Not only did Dr. Theodor Waigel propose the name of the…

[escenic_image id="55159367"] It’s a pity commonsense does not drive diplomacy. If it did, Washington might realize that its schizophrenic nuclear…

[escenic_image id="55158793"]Last Friday, Rahm Emanuel, the most powerful White House chief of staff since Ronald Regan’s James Baker, announced his…

[escenic_image id="55158781"]A lot has been written over the past several months about Iran's trade relations with the BRICs, referring to Brazil,…

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

[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…

[escenic_image id="55155341"]It was only five years ago when the then unknown mayor of Tehran kissed the hands of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei…