World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Let us be honest. Many of us, Arabs and Muslims of all stripes- liberal and conservative, moderate and pro-Axis of Resistance, religious and secular- are not comfortable with the demonstrations of Iranian women protesting against the authorities in power. Rather, we watch on awkward and…

Before delving into why the most famous Arabic-speaking foreign radio station shut down, let us look at why the British government established it in the first place back in 1938. Why did the network choose to install BBC Arabic as its first foreign-language station instead of one that speaks the…

The world's most trafficked endangered species by monetary value isn't an elephant or a rhino. It's rosewood, a group of slow-growing tropical hardwoods prized for their use in traditional Chinese arts and crafts and furniture. Beds made from rosewood have sold for over $1 million; the overall…

Scientific understanding is challenging the conventional wisdom about hunger — now framing it as a scourge that afflicts not only people who get too few calories, but also those who consume mostly sugar and refined starch. Under this new understanding, people eating the wrong kind of diet can…

Our region needs a prize like the Nobel Peace Prize, but called the Nobel Delusion Prize. It would be given out once a year, if not once a month, as we have enough delusional figures for it. I will give one example and start with a sort of surprising experiment. He says: “Regarding the issue…

From Sept. 20-26, the UAE participated in the general debate of the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly, which represents an important opportunity for us to shed light on the country’s established values, pioneering model and constructive vision for international cooperation,…

“The revolution is female” – a slogan that has been raised in Arab cities over the past five or six years. To a certain extent, it was correct. Indeed, women took to the streets, chanted, protested, clashed, and sacrificed. This happened in Beirut, Khartoum, Baghdad and other Arab cities. The…

Russian President Vladimir Putin did what was expected. Referendums in Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Luhansk and Donetsk were held. It is not known how many people living in these areas before the war escaped and how many remained, how many people participated in the voting, how many said “yes” to…

Kids are expensive. Full stop. No matter your level of frugality, it’s certainly costlier to have kids than to opt to be child-free. And yet, there’s a particular kind of societal pushback in the US when you attempt to speak bluntly about the financial concerns of having children. The prevailing…

Whether it is brief or continues for an extended period, the world is undergoing an exceptional moment that can be summed up in a scene we will almost inevitably see: Moscow and Tehran drowning in crises of their own making. I do not remember ever seeing the ice-cold face Putin puts on in front…

You should reconsider the bank you use, at least for some of your savings. Chances are, if you’re a customer at one of the major retail banks, you’re leaving real money on the table. High-yield online savings accounts are finally starting to feel like they are in fact, high-yielding — or at…

“Cramming more components onto integrated circuits.” That was the blunt title of Gordon E. Moore’s essay on silicon chips published in Electronics magazine in April 1965. In the space of just three pages, the director of semiconductor R&D at Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. outlined one of…