In August 1990, when the United States launched the Gulf War to reclaim Kuwait from the invading forces of Iraqi strongman Saddam Hussein, it was touted as the world’s first real-time media war…

In mid-April, the MENA growth forecast of the World Bank anticipated that the economies of Arab oil exporter countries “are expected to grow by 5.2% in 2022, the fastest rate since 2016, on the back…

Egyptians are bearing the brunt of the Russian-Ukrainian war which broke out in February as food and other commodity prices are soaring. According to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and…

Offers of political mediation between Russia and Ukraine have not stopped since the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis in 2014 and the tragic events that followed, reaching their climax these days,…

Wars or military confrontations always come with dramatic, impactful changes. The economy is the most fragile or the weakest link that can be shaken with the first sign of instability. Unprecedented…

Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, while the intensive campaign to help Ukrainians has been led by the US government (last week, the State Department declared that the US “is the…

Contemporary history has not witnessed such an escalation with consequences Russia did not suffer from its Western opponents even during the height of the Cold War, which lasted for more than forty…

Politics is the offspring of history, and history is the offspring of geography. The latter, however, stands unchanged, a fact that the Ukrainian President had not been aware of. He thought, with…