By: Hassan bin Youssef yassin What we call wisdom is simply experience gained over a lifetime and the lessons learned from it. The older we get, the more situations we have lived through and the more we see resemblances and

By : M J Akbar To be left speechless with horror is not a democratic response to barbarism. Democracy is nothing without a voice. There come moments when nothing less than a scream will serve. The rape and hanging of

By: Rasheed Abou-AlSamh From Libya to Egypt, continuing through Iraq and Iran, some elements seem to be prisoners of their prejudices and the power networks of the past. Despite the upheavals of the Arab Spring — that brought a glimmer

By: Jaswant Singh Bharatiya Janata Party, led by Narendra Modi, has stormed into office, winning its first absolute majority and reducing the formerly dominant Congress party to a rump, with just 44 of 543 seats in the lower house. Although

By: Sarah Eltantawi Former army chief Abdel Fattah El-Sissi won the presidential elections in Egypt this week, almost a year after Egypt’s military reasserted formal control following widespread revolts against Muhammad Mursi. Why is El-Sissi going to be Egypt”s next

By: Harun Yahya Throughout its history, Middle East — the land of the prophets — has been the starting point of peace and harmony envisaged in the divine revelations. People learned to coexist as a result of the preaching of

By: Rafid Fatani It seems that as soon as something goes wrong in Saudi Arabia, people are quick to point the finger of blame at the government, and allegations of corruption are born. A sudden storm that recently hit the

By: Bikram Vohra In a test run done for a master’s degree in management it was seen that the best way to have your career shortened is by indiscreet talk. Especially against your superiors. The old hackneyed saying about walls

By: Bikram Vohra Whatever else one might say about the elections in India besides their having been the largest ever with over 850 million people taking part, the handing over of power was a tribute to the democratic process. While

By : Sabria S. Jawhar Traffic fatalities and homicides usually get the lion’s share of news coverage in Saudi media, but there are a less sensational, but equally horrific, number of deaths that are completely preventable. We have a system

By: Afifa Jabeen Quraishi What is a substitute for good education? A political career, you say? If you are in India, that’s likely. The debate raging over the academic qualifications of the country’s new HRD minister Smriti Irani exposes the

By : Rajeev Sharma Turbulent times are ahead for Narendra Modi, if the first 24 hours in the office is any indication. On the first full day of his work as India’s 15th Prime Minister Modi held “substantive talks” with