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April 21, 2019

We need more people like Mohamed Salah

Gracing the cover of Time is a considerable feat. Landing in the venerable magazine for being one of the world’s 100 most influential people is an accomplishment like few others. And being an Arab and a Muslim achieving this feat is an honor that should make the people who share this faith and ethnicity immensely proud. It is a triumph not just of football star Mohamed Salah but of all ...

April 18, 2019

Turkey defies Washington

As feared by many moderate Turks, the fix is going in. Last week the country’s Supreme Electoral Council ruled that six pro-Kurdish mayors from the Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) elected last month cannot take office. Their jobs are going to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party (AKP). On Tuesday the AKP submitted a formal demand for a rerun of the Istanbul election, which it lost narrowly to ...

April 17, 2019

Few executives pay the price of failure

Unless they are self-employed, the majority of people spend their working lives in organizations that are often run by distant bosses. In recent years in North America and Europe, the pay gap between the ordinary salaried worker and leading executives has widen substantially as top managers are awarded remuneration packages, including bonuses and share options that border on the outrageous.The justification for such massive financial awards is that corporate leaders ...

April 16, 2019

Ukraine’s comic election

Since embattled Ukrainian president Petro Poroshenko is being challenged by a comedian, it was very probably meant to be a joke. His opponent TV comedy star Volodymyr Zelensky failed to turn up for a pre-election debate this weekend, so Poroshenko found himself arguing with an empty podium in front of an audience of thousands in Kiev’s Olympic stadium.Many of those watching are likely to have been highly-amused Zelensky supporters since ...

April 15, 2019

Assange: The good and bad

Julian Assange, who was hauled out of the Ecuadorian embassy in London after nearly seven years of self-imposed confinement, is now in UK custody, charged by the US Justice Department with conspiring with a former American soldier in around 2010 to hack into a government computer. Assange may also have to face authorities in Sweden as it considers whether to reopen an investigation into rape and sexual assault allegations against ...

April 14, 2019

In only this month of April, two sitting Arab presidents have been forced out of office in the wake of popular uprisings. The common denominator of the two back-to-back revolts has been the call by the people of the two countries for a sea change in their governments, the interim takeover by the armies of both countries and the continuation of protests after their presidents left as people demanded to ...

April 11, 2019

Losing the bug battle

GREED and stupidity are contributing to a potentially disastrous global health crisis. Beginning with penicillin, a family of antibiotic drugs was created capable a combating a wide range of conditions that would once have been deadly to the majority of those infected. But the challenge has always been that bugs gradually build up resistance to antibiotics that were once able to check them. This is an inevitable and natural process. Medical ...

April 11, 2019

The wolf no longer bleats

Those who despair at the strong likelihood that Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu has won himself a record fifth term in office are missing a key point. Without exception, each and every Israeli government, regardless of its political color, has quietly pushed the agenda of a Greater Israel, inevitably at the expense of the Palestinians.Had the challenger Benny Gantz won the weekend general election, the tone of the government might have ...

April 10, 2019

Iran’s terrorist guardians

Tehran has reacted with predictable hysteria to Washington’s announcement that the ayatollahs’ Revolutionary Guard is now considered to be a terrorist organization. To some observers, it is a mystery that this did not happened earlier, not least because the Quds Force, the foreign expeditionary arm of the Guard, has been deemed by Washington to be a terrorist group since 2007.Had the Trump administration wished to go the extra mile, it ...

April 9, 2019

Will Haftar’s Libyan advance finally bring peace?

The long-expected military showdown in the Libyan capital Tripoli has begun.General Khalifa Haftar’s Libyan National Army (LNA) is closing in on the city on three fronts. The internationally recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) has vowed to defend itself with what its leader Faiez Serraj called a “Volcano of Rage”.However, the reality is that the GNA has no forces directly under its command. It has been forming a Presidential Guard ...

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