In the run-up to the ongoing climate summit in Glasgow Sir David Attenborough, the world’s most prominent climate campaigner, warned against delay in tackling the causes of global warming. “If...
At the 26th UN Climate Change Conference which opened yesterday at Glasgow in Scotland, 200 countries are being asked to provide targets for cutting polluting gas emissions until they reach...
Tanzanian-born Abdulrazak Gurnah is the second Muslim of Arab stock to be awarded the coveted Nobel Prize for Literature. The first was Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz who became a laureate in...
The Taliban is all too clearly not yet up to ruling Afghanistan. Over the past two decades, that country and its citizens have joined the 21st century but the Taliban...
Award winning Irish author Sally Rooney has caused a stir in the literary world by refusing a bid by a leading Israeli publisher to translate her best-selling novel. “Beautiful World,...
Sunday, April 13th, 1975, was a fateful day for Lebanon. I remember it well. My husband, 5-year old daughter, and I were returning home from a lunch party at the...
The Nobel Prize Committee has challenged our era of “fake news” propagated by radical-right radio and television channels and social media by awarding this year’s coveted Peace Prize to Maria Ressa and...
Following Israel’s 11-day May blitz on besieged and blockaded Gaza, Egypt and Qatar each pledged to invest $500m in the reconstruction of the strip and have separately received at least...
Iraqis are set to go to the polls on Sunday to elect representatives for the 329-member national assembly. The election was initially scheduled for June but postponed at the request of...
The Doha Agreement, reached by the Trump administration and the Taliban, led to the collapse of both the Afghan government and the Afghan army and security forces. It is significant...
The author, a well-respected observer of Middle East affairs, has three books on the Arab-Israeli conflict.