Hillary Clinton announced her Presidential candidacy on April 12, 2015. In the moment, it was great news. I like the woman; I believe her to be the single strongest and most qualified candidate in...
Following a draft U.N. Security Council resolution forwarded by the French in the wake of the heinous terrorist crime leveled against Paris, the major powers on that world body voted unanimously in...
The opening of 2015 saw Paris afflicted by the horrendous terrorist attacks on the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish kosher supermarket. The closing of 2015 has sadly seen another...
Khadijah Abdel Majid (aka Kaidy, wife of Ali Khasawneh), passed away at 11.30 am on June 13th, in her home in Amman. She was 77 years old. She was the mother of Lina, Lulu, Mahmoud, and the author...
“In Praise of Joanne Rowling’s Hermione Granger series” was all over my social-media @-replies a few weeks ago. Again. This has happened often, in the four years since I wrote the piece....
As Russia’s airstrikes begin to take hold, and Russian/Syrian coordinated ground attacks against the non-ISIS rebels continue, the battle lines in the post Sykes-Picot Middle East are starting to...
Going back to my roots. See ya very soon BALI!” declared a jubilant 20-year-old Joshua* on Facebook, just a while before boarding the plane that would take him to his fatherland. It was 17th of...
Recently, Russia has made a number of aggressive foreign policy decisions in Syria. When looking in depth, it becomes apparent that these newly assertive moves have the opportunity to generate...
“Let me tell you something that we Israelis have against Moses. He took us 40 years through the desert in order to bring us to the one spot in the Middle East that has no oil!” So said the former...
Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen is the second of the three debut novels on this year’s Man Booker longlist, alongside The Chimes and Did You Ever Have a Family. In very different ways to The...
