The privatisation programme in Jordan was formulated and implemented during the last two decades. Commentators tend to go to extremes when evaluating it, projecting both its advantages and

For Muslim Americans, this year’s anniversary of September 11 may be the most stressful one yet, and possibly the most consequential. A confluence of events and political developments produced a

A Palestinian state is coming -- it's just not clear whether it will result from the current peace talks. It is easy to be pessimistic, or even apathetic, about the latest round of Palestinian-Israeli

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The good people of the old city on top of the mountains are fasting during the holy month of Ramadan in scorching heat, but some domestic issues made things even hotter for them, mainly the way things

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For over a month, Moscow has been boiling in 40-degree heat and heavy, sticky, eye-burning smog. Carbon monoxide levels have reached crisis levels, at six times the maximum allowable concentration

RAMALLAH – Direct talks between Palestinian and Israeli leaders are the most obvious way to achieve peace in the Middle East conflict. But history has shown time and again that a high-profile peace

Just over a hundred years ago, the United States led the world in terms of rethinking how big business worked - and when the power of such firms should be constrained. In retrospect, the breakthrough