By: Hassan Barari Casting aside all arguments advanced by either the Palestinians or the Israelis, the fact remains that Israel’s current war in Gaza is not the first and will most likely not be the last. Both sides are hostage

By: Fernando Duarte Few people, even Argentine hardcore fans, will dispute that Germany are deserved winners of the 2014 World Cup. In a tournament so full of surprises, Joachim Löw’ s side has been the most solid and apart from

By: Bikram Vohra Have you noticed how we spend most of our children’s early years teaching them to walk and talk and then the rest of it telling them to shut up and sit down. In thousands of homes these

By: Talal Alharbi Most of the reports issued by the International Labor Organization and local authorities contain alarming statistics about youth problems and unemployment. These reports also indicate that numbers of the youth exceed four million. Being aware of the

By: Rabia Alavi The Italian historian, Niccolò Machiavelli spoke wise words when he said, “The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don’t just go away,

By: Saad Dosari If I had a riyal for every time I heard someone complaining about lack of time, I might be a millionaire right now, giving the next complainer a Bentley or something! “I wish I had time to

By: Susan V. Ople How do you draft a law based on a much-awaited historic political settlement brought about by formal peace talks between the Philippine government and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front? The latter is the biggest Muslim secessionist

By: Abdulateef Al-Mulhim Taxi industry is one the biggest employers in any country around the world. There are many huge companies with thousands of cars in their fleets. Many taxi drivers have a pre-set amount they pay to the mother

By: Linda S. Heard I’ve just seen a photograph of the sweetest tiny girl, a Palestinian child little more than a baby, hugging her dead father. I’ve watched televised footage of a distraught father clinging to his young daughter who’s

By: Raghida Dergham The current phase is not convenient for the Islamic Republic of Iran: nuclear negotiations with the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany (P5+1) have stalled and the desired agreement may not be reached by

By: Ramzy Baroud When the bodies of three Israeli settlers – Aftali Frenkel and Gilad Shaar, both 16, and Eyal Yifrach, 19 – were found on June 30 near Hebron in the southern West Bank, Israel went into a state

By: Jamal Khashoggi I love life just like any moderate Muslim does. At the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan, I took my family to a Turkish coffee shop in Jeddah following the evening prayers. It was a usual

By: Abdulrahman al-Rashed Izzat al-Douri was of no significance when he was the deputy of Iraq’s late President Saddam Hussein and he’s had no significance or value since the Ba’ath Party collapsed and since his president and other commanders were