World News Insights: Opinion Articles

This is not a revolt of the non-religious against a theocratic regime, nor is it a secular movement against a religious political system. Indeed, women who opt to wear the veil as a choice rather than a state-mandated obligation have protested alongside the women demanding that the veil not be…

The current session of the United Nations General Assembly saw a resurgence of talk about the need to reform the Security Council. This is undoubtedly due to the intensifying international challenges and dangers from the Ukrainian war which is open to the worst possible scenarios, to the various…

Apple Inc. is pulling back from plans to increase production of its new iPhones this year. Instead, it will produce about as many as the prior year, in line with its original forecast. Fair enough — a looming global recession and strong dollar probably mean consumers outside the US will feel the…

When he took over as China’s leader 10 years ago, President Xi Jinping was hailed by Western experts and media as a man who would open the path for major political reforms to reflect the rising tiger’s economic transformation. Some even saw him as a wiser version of Mikhail Gorbachev and speculated…

Meteorologists tell us that global warming has created new problems for forecasters. Not only are hurricanes getting stronger, they’re also intensifying more rapidly than they used to, making it difficult to issue early warnings for communities in their path. Notably, officials in Florida’s Lee…

Elon Musk likes to “go big or go home.” So it was no surprise after news broke that he was buying Twitter Inc. after all, that he would tease a huge ambition for the company: Musk is not simply buying Twitter to make it better. He claims a much grander plan: creating an “everything app” that…

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,…