Abdulfattah Khattab

It was always thus that cheap oil was bad news for the big oil producers. Yet despite the falling global oil prices, the Gulf Cooperation Council…

Throughout much of the 19th and 20th century, wars were fought over territory and access routes, whether by sea or by land. In some cases, conquests…

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…