By: Seema Sengupta THE most sought after official document in India in the month of February is finally out in the open. Arun Jaitley, finance minister of the newly elected Narendra Modi government has presented his first budget in the

By: Heba Albeity King Abdullah Scholarships Program (KASP) has absolutely changed the demography of the Saudi society. According to statistics disclosed by Minister of Higher Education Dr. Khalid bin Mohammed Al-Angari during the graduation ceremony of the 4th group of

By: Linda Gradstein A cartoon that appeared in the daily newspaper Haaretz captured the feelings of many in Israel. A couple is sitting on the couch watching TV while on the news program an Israeli army commander is shown asking

By: Muddassar Ahmed This week is Remembering Srebrenica Week, which commemorates the loss of over 100,000 lives in Bosnia between 1992 and 1995, and more specifically the massacre of over 8,000 Muslim men and boys in Srebrenica. Despite Srebrenica being

By: Ramzy Baroud As Iraq stands on the verge of a complete breakdown into mini sectarian states, former leading neoconservative and Iraq war advocate Richard Perle made a sudden appearance on Newsmax TV. His statements in the interview were yet

By: Dr. Azeem Ibrahim Here in the Middle East, the political situation seems to be getting ever more unstable. Between the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and new Israeli action against Gaza, the news gets

By: Amal Al-Sibai In addition to increased spiritual awareness and a higher level of faith, something else often goes up during Ramadan…… your weight. Ramadan is not to be blamed for the weight gain; it is due to our unhealthy

By: Mohammed Azhar Ali Khan In Ottawa on Canada Day, tens of thousands of Canadians and foreign tourists jammed Parliament Hill to sing, laugh, hear speeches, wave the flag and holler in delight as artists performed, planes flew overhead, the

By: Bikram Vohra Writers hacking cliches. Photographers snapping carbon copies. Admen reworking Black Books. Marketing chiefs sucking on the fumes of dried up think tanks. Bankers hiding behind computer printouts. Thousands of professionals, running on empty. All the passion spent,

By: Daoud Kuttab When three Israelis went missing three weeks ago, and before any evidence was made available, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu decided on his own to pin responsibility on the Islamist movement Hamas. He and his political and

By: Rajeev Sharma With the presentation of its maiden rail budget on Tuesday, the barely 45-day-old government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given a sneak peek into its economic vision — a mix of selling dreams to 1.2 billion

By: Joseph E. Stiglitz For better or worse, economic-policy debates in the United States are often echoed elsewhere, regardless of whether they are relevant. Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s recently elected government provides a case in point. As in many