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When the Mediterranean Commission on Sustainable Development (MCSD) announced its annual meeting to discuss the repercussions of the coronavirus on its programs in the region, we expected to see a decline in the positive results that countries had achieved before the pandemic. Sadly, it turned out…

Your Excellency, Your enlightening opinion to Asharq Al-Awsat last Sunday underscores the importance of cooperation among countries in the region to confront a number of challenges: The development of the capabilities of the Iraqi state and Arab countries to carry out reforms, combat corruption,…

The US labor market is tight. In April, there were 9.3 million job openings but just 6.1 million new hires, according to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics. Wages are rising as a result. And yet, these conditions should help corporate profits and contain inflationary pressures. No doubt there…

The shift under way in global monetary policy is more subtle evolution than revolution. For all the talk about a pivot toward higher interest rates, conditions are likely to remain relatively lax for years to come in the economies that matter most. Central banks are unlikely to engage in new…

There are so many forces at work on the labor market that they are difficult to disentangle: unemployment insurance bonuses, hesitancy over Covid, lack of child care, low wages. Still, after more than a year of debating whether to spend more government money to stimulate the economy, Congress needs…

The statements issued by former Israeli intelligence chief Yossi Cohen a few days ago were astounding and bewildering, as he revealed, in details, how Israel stole the Iranian nuclear archives on January 31, 2018, how it carried out explosive and sabotage attacks against the Iranian Natanz nuclear…

The last time Russia and the UK were at odds in the Black Sea was during the Crimean War in the mid-19th century. Most famous for the “Charge of the Light Brigade,” immortalized by Alfred Lord Tennyson, the three-year conflict also introduced the use in combat of the telegraph, railway…

President Joe Biden traveled to Florida on Thursday to comfort survivors of the condo collapse in Surfside and to hear from local officials, who in this case were quick to praise the administration’s response. This is normal presidency stuff. It’s also something that was mostly missing during the…

The election of a new Iranian hardliner president is another message to the Biden Administration that Iran does not intend to improve, even if the comprehensive nuclear deal is revived, the Wall Street Journal reported. As residents in the region, we are aware that this has been the case since the…

French presidential careers tend to begin euphorically, screech to a halt in the face of protests over promises becoming policy and end somewhere between indifference and contempt when voters bring out the ballot-box equivalent of the guillotine. The results of regional elections last weekend…

It would not be an overstatement to claim that the results of the Beirut Syndicate of Engineers and Architects elections, held last Sunday, marked a paradigm shift in the work of the youth opposition forces that emerged in the wake of the October 17 uprising, as it ended with a sweeping victory for…

As China launches a series of celebrations marking the centenary of the foundation of its Communist Party one question cannot be avoided: Is there anything to celebrate? As far as the party is concerned, the answer is yes. To start with, the CCP is the oldest Communist party still in power,…