In an exclusive interview with Al Majalla, the UN assistant secretary-general says the traditional approach of dealing with issues in silos no longer works and a 360 approach is needed.
The world appears to be either prematurely aging or completely insane. After a long period of cold peace from the end of World War II until the 1970s, Richard Nixon, then US President, visited China…
In this age of information technology, knowledge has become accessible in the pockets of 83% of the world's population. Now people can quickly research the accurate distance and time required to walk…
John Maynard Keynes, best known as the founder of Keynesian economics; a school of economic thought, and also described as Britain’s most famous 20th-century economist, suggested in one of his essays…
The human rights issue shall remain a daunting subject in the relationship between the international community and most of the countries of the Middle East. There is a huge gap between how the…
Standard Chartered Bank, a British banking and financial services company founded in 1969, started operation of its first branch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, around the middle of last May.
The Saudi…
Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.
The country now sits at an energy crossroads: will its recovery be anchored in oil and gas, or will it seize the chance to lean into renewables and build something more resilient?
After Israel dealt Iran and its regional axis a string of crippling blows last year, Lebanon now finds itself better-positioned to reclaim its eroded state sovereignty. Will it grab the chance?
Recent books from Yemen, Egypt, and Syria take a new look at the 10th-century philosopher's famed letter 'The Epistle of Forgiveness', which is said to have inspired Dante's 'Divine Comedy'
An earthquake in Afghanistan earlier this week levelled entire villages and left people trapped under rubble for days, but in the shadow of the Hindu Kush, saviours were thin on the ground