Last week the first Muslim prayers could be heard in Hagia Sophia for the first time since 1934. Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, and several senior ministers led over 1,000 worshippers inside the complex that
By Dr. Rene Tebel Since May 2020, the world's first floating nuclear power plant has been supplying electricity to the town of Pevek, and since the end of June, it has also been securing heating.
A major environmental, humanitarian and economic disaster lies in wait in the Red Sea - and there's only a tiny window of opportunity to prevent it. An internationalised civil war, food insecurity , malnutrition ,
For years, Israelis — especially the liberal and left-leaning among them — have been accused of being apathetic and leaving political activism to the more nationalistic and religious-minded. However, in light of their government’s failure
Israel’s presence in Libya has escaped most publicitiy, but numerous media reports revealed that Tel Aviv secretly supports eastern Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar against the UN-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA), led by Prime Minister
By Anson Laytner Israel is poised to make an existential choice. After so many decades of developing Jewish towns and cities in the West Bank, and now with the blessings ...
No matter how the woman is held in any society, be it at a higher status or any different fashion, she can never be ignored and forgotten. I do believe ...
On Monday it seemed that there was little hope of a compromise over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), a controversial project that Sudan and Egypt argue will severely threaten ...
For some Arabs, living under the malaise of political and economic hopelessness is proving too much to bear. In a communal culture like the one found in the Arab world, ...
By Anson Laytner Despite Prime Minister Netanyahu’s strenuous efforts to have Israel recognized as “the Jewish state,” in point of fact it is and always has been a bi-national state, ...
Oil exporting countries are set to lose $270bn in revenues this year. Many are beginning to strategies as to the best way of avoiding a total economic catastrophe in the ...
The American University of Beirut (AUB), the region's oldest and most influential foreign institution of higher learning, is facing the most serious challenge in its 154-year history due to Lebanon's ...
A major assassination in Iraq has hit the headlines for the second time this year. Last week’s killing of leading security expert Hisham Al-Hashemi, who advised both the president and ...
By Dr. Rene Tebel The next president of the USA will probably be Joe Biden. The reason for this is due to the current turbulence in which Donald Trump and ...
July 1 came and went yet nothing on annexation. It was like the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu buried his head in the sand with nothing to say about the ...
