By: Abdullah Sayel For 30 years, the popular dish of foul (Arabic beans) has had no increase in its price. This SR2 delicious plate is a friend of millions of Saudis and non-Saudis. It has proved to be of distinguished

[wpResize] By : Abdel Aziz Aluwaisheg I write this article from Washington, where the “Switchgate” saga has again dominated the headlines. General Motors has issued six new recalls to address a range of flaws in more than 3.5 million vehicles

[wpResize] By : Bikram Vohra I get the feeling that job ads are more soaked with human emotions than the news columns. There is prejudice for one, heaps of it. If you are over 35 you need not apply. What

[wpResize] By : Seema Sengupta Is the disappearance of Indian lady mountaineer Chhanda Gayen in the Kanchenjunga massif last month the first foreign policy failure of India’s newly anointed Modi government? The climber along with two Sherpas was reportedly swept

[wpResize] By : Bikram Vohra Back to pounds and shillings and dropping pennies and offering a farthing. So it looks with Britain on the doorstep of leaving the House of EU and marching off on its own. We had heard

[wpResize] By : Hassan Barari Barring an inclusive political solution in Iraq, the country will most likely descend into a civil war and perhaps fall apart. Just a few days ago, the President of Iraq Kurdistan, Massoud Barzani, made it

[wpResize] By : Dominique Moisi Archduke Franz Ferdinand, the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, and his wife, Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg, were murdered in Sarajevo — triggering a series of bad decisions that culminated in World War I. A century

[wpResize] By : David Nakamura Move over, Republicans. President Barack Obama has a new bogeyman: The media. The president has let out his frustrations on the Fourth Estate for failing, in his view, to cover serious issues facing the American

[wpResize] By : Rasheed Abou-Alsamh The advance of the forces of the self-ascribed Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) at lightning speed from eastern Syria to the outskirts of Baghdad caught many by surprise. But for any student

[wpResize] By : John Sfakianakis It stands to reason that one of the effects of the turmoil in Iraq will be a change in oil prices. Indeed, the violence in OPEC’s second-largest producer has already sent oil prices to 10-month

[wpResize] By : Harun Yahya The seemingly endless conflicts pitting brother against brother in the Muslim world has been a significant problem for years with no appropriate solution in sight. Western countries disregard this internal turmoil and conflict to the

[wpResize] By : Javier Solana The recent gains made by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) confirms that, more than a decade after the war in Iraq began, stability in the Middle East remains on a knife’s

[wpResize] By : Nilofar Suhrawardy There are no “ifs” and “buts” about Narendra Modi’s strong communication skills, the positive impact of which has helped him succeed politically to head the new Indian government. Modi was probably not prepared for his

[wpResize] By : The Associated Press How is it that footballers are among the few who’ve not had much to say about the bite seen around the world, now punished with an appropriately tough ban? Luis Suarez’s peers surely can’t

[wpResize] By : Bikram Vohra Whenever you do those IQ tests they have that terrible question about if nine is to sixteen then a rabbit is to something and you have to guess the something and I hate that question.

[wpResize] By : Fernando Durat When experts predicted a carnival atmosphere in Brazil for the World Cup, they were certainly thinking of the great opportunity for Latin American supporters to seize the chance to follow the action up-close — a

[wpResize] By : Nadeem M. Qureshi For more than a century the model for generating and distributing electrical power has remained unchanged. Power is produced in large generating plants each of which takes years to build and typically costs hundreds