With civil war tearing Syria apart, there are two ways Russian President Vladimir Putin can deal with the issue : the old way and the clever way. The old way would be to maintain the status quo,...
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...
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...
You know the Middle East is horrendously chaotic when a war which has cost over 2000 lives and, according to the United Nations, left over 6.5 million people at risk of starvation and most of a...
It's worth noting that the entrance of the term, and indeed concept, of 'humanitarian intervention' into the general lexicon was a mere quarter-century ago. In the aftermath of the 1991 Persian Gulf...
The late King of Morocco Hassan II had a stylistic audacity equaled by no monarch and was just as eloquent with metaphors. He wore all the colours of the rainbow and used to compare his country to a...
When the Islamic State (ISIS) group symbolically dismantled the Skyes-Picot border which had long separated the modern states of Iraq and Syria in the middle of 2014, following its takeover of large...
Indian Summers, the latest UK telly import, will be hitting US screens via PBS this September. The show appears tipped to be a Downton Abbey successor, building on what made the smash hit such a...
The countdown to a new season of Doctor Who has begun with the announcement of a 19 September premiere, and while we’ll be seeing the usual suspects, Moffat has once again recruited some famous...
Economist Richard Wolff made an excellent animation of a lecture on the origins of “class” as a concept. He explains that, as an economic precept, capitalism lasted a whole lot longer in America...
