Category: Opinion

Sat 08 June 2019 In today’s international system, trade deals and realpolitik have superseded the value of human life When China began its crackdown on Uighur Muslims in 2016 in the northwestern province of Xinjiang, a territory that lies at the heart of its Belt and Road grand economic strategy, human rights organisations estimated the number of […]

Fri 07 June 2019: In the Middle East, it has often begun the same way: a popular swell of street protests against long-entrenched autocrats and demonstrators inspired by burgeoning aspirations for democracy and freedom. But then the military moves in. Its ruthless, harsh force helps prop up the leader and his family, or safeguard the […]

Tue 04 June 2019: Are there more lost leaders, imams and mujahideen than the current ones, who can fight only by using big high-flying rhetoric? Before I continue with this column, let me ask: Are the Palestinian refugees today happy or miserable in their refugee camps? Have they reached the commonsensical and realistic conviction that […]

Mon 03 June 2019: Ankara is funding thousands of mosques out of more than just goodwill. The mosque being built in Albania’s capital will be the largest in all the Balkans. Still a few months away from opening, it already dominates a corner of Tirana, overshadowing the neighboring Parliament building from a 105,000-square-foot compound. The […]

Sat 01 June 2019 Unable to sustain its Syrian campaign, Iran is rapidly losing ground to Russia. The Syrian regime is suffering from the worst economic crisis since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011. The acute shortages of fuel, gas and electricity have frustrated even the staunchest loyalists who now publicly express their dissatisfaction against […]

Fri 31 May 2019: “I’m for truth, no matter who tells it. I’m for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I’m a human being, first and foremost, and as such I’m for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole.” Malcolm X Having attended the Amec Parliamentary Portfolio Seminar for 2 days in […]

Sun 26 May 2019: Iraq’s Sunnis have been abandoned by their government and are at the mercy of killers and war criminals who rival ISIS in their brutality.  Humanitarians have always faced a hard task in Iraq. Not only are there literally millions of people in need of aid, with the United Nations saying there […]

Sat 25 May 2019: Arabs have active imaginations when it comes to using conspiracy interpretations for what’s going on. Based on this imagination, many political and sociological phenomena are dealt with as being fake. Conflict between America and Iran is fake, conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is fake, the establishment of Daesh and all it […]

Fri 24 May 2019 The Chinese smartphone maker might be forced to develop the Android rival the EU is hoping for. By imposing restrictions on Huawei Technologies Co., the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump may force the Chinese company to do something that no one in tech has dared to do for a long […]

Thu 23 May 2019: If the Indian prime minister is returned to office, his sectarian politics will make bigotry the defining ideal of the republic ndian elections are a marvel to behold. The rules stipulate that no citizen should have to travel more than 2km to vote. So the state goes to the voters. Carrying […]