In 1988, a special banquet was held in celebration of Asharq Al-Awsat’s founding. During the proceedings, British minister David Mellor gave a speech that started with the satirical line: “Welcome to…

When I think back to when I began working with Majalla 33 years ago, I remember the hardships I faced while settling in and adjusting to life in London. As a young man, I never thought that I would…

The year 1990 was difficult for everyone in the field of journalism and politics. The Arab media was divided, war was declared on all levels, and unaffiliated journalists were disoriented…

In the coming decades, the developed world will face a daunting demographic challenge. As life expectancy goes up and fertility rates go down inNorth America,Europe, and the Pacific nations…

Late last week, the Taliban and the US signed a historic peace deal. This seemed like a landmark moment in the US’s almost two-decade presence in Afghanistan as for the first time a glimmer of hope…

On March 2, 2020 Israel held its third election in almost 12 months, as a political deadlock that prevented both Netanyahu’s Likud Party and Benny Gantz’s Blue and White Alliance from forming a…

As the tense calm that prevailed between Turkish and Syrian military forces has given way to open combat and increasingly lethal Turkish strikes, a new consensus has begun to form among key figures…

Early Life and Education Elyes Fakhfakh was born in the Tunisian capital of Tunis in 1972. He would then attend the National Engineering School of Sfax where he earned…

What makes an army successful in battle? A few factors come to mind: strength in numbers, tactical acumen, the type of political institutions at home. New technologies, including artificial…

InDecember 2019, as protests against a controversial new citizenship law sweptIndia, three incidents in different parts of the country revealed the state’s growing powers of surveillance. InDelhi,…