Just two words – “Yetnahaw Gaâ” – were enough to land him a prison cell. Scrawled in Algerian Arabic and held aloft, it is an expression now synonymous with the country’s desperate struggle for democracy: ‘they all must leave’. The...
The real purpose behind Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s intransigent attitude regarding the establishment of a so-called Safe Zone in northeast Syria is becoming more evident day after day. The Turkish leader is trying to hit two or more birds...
The third debate is in the books. While neither the audience or the viewers witnessed new ground-breaking policy ideas, the race has begun to take shape. Assessing winners of losers remains subjective. Depending on the news outlet and polling data,...
This week, the latest chapter in the Edward Snowden chronicles is beginning to play out. Snowden, a former civilian contractor and employee for US spy agencies, the NSA and CIA, has published his memoirs. The book, entitled Permanent Record, is...
Following the dismissal of John Bolton last week, President Trump has appointed his new Security Advisor today – his fourth in twenty months. It raises questions not only in terms of strategies but on the degree of influence a Trump...
Neither Likud nor the Blue and White Party succeeded in gaining a majority in this week’s Israeli election, and now the fates of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and opposition leader Benny Gantz rest in the hands of potential coalition...
“There are three million of us and we are all cousins, we know everything about everyone here”. It is like a collective mantra which you hear often when travelling through Albania. And yet, even in the best of families, there...
Maverick technology mastermind, or serpentine subordinate of the Chinese state? Ren Zhengfei, founder of Huawei, splits opinion. He’s grown the telecom firm to a $100bn behemoth, but his ties to the Communist Party are clear, and he – like any...
Today Israeli voters enter the booth to pass judgment on the country’s longest-running prime minister and his more rightwing and aggressive policies with regards to the West Bank. Having failed to secure a coalition in April, Benjamin Netanyahu and the...
On early Saturday, September 14, explosions lit up the predawn sky in Eastern Saudi Arabia as two of the monarchy’s major oil plants were bombed in drone strikes. The raids knocked out what accounts for more than half of Saudi...