Abdulfattah Khattab

Young people today would find it hard to believe that their parents or grandparents could once only stay in touch with people through a fixed-line…

Reflecting on the year that was, the Arab world’s economic landscape offered a complex and somewhat contradictory picture shaped by shifting…

In the race for 21st-century technological dominance, most of the talk about resources has focused on critical minerals, by which most assume these…

There were few winners from the 2008 global financial crash triggered by an implosion in the US housing market, but investor Michael Burry was one…

For thousands of years, metals have been linked to human advancement, from Stone Age tools made of flint to the iron that fired the factories that…

Lebanon is a land of necessary neighbourhood generators, patchy internet connections, entrepreneurial ideas, and effectively absent regulatory…

It is no small thing to succeed a man who turned a struggling textile mill into an American holding company worth $1.2tn, but that is the fortune of…

When Donald Trump threatened to impose sweeping tariffs on many imports, he warned Europe that it would face consequences for its long-standing trade…

Fresh from elections that saw the former governor of the Bank of England win the Canadian premiership, King Charles III opened Canada’s Parliament by…

After US President Donald Trump imposed 145% tariffs on all imports from China, Beijing retaliated with its own tariff increase and also banned the…