How rising prices in the Middle East are pushing people into poverty
When you hear of Arab cuisine, what imagery does it conjure up? Hummus, bulgur wheat, meat, chicken and spices like sumac, cumin and cinnamon. Lavish dinner parties with popular dishes like Egyptian k...
17 Juni 202214min
When and how can America stop the mass shootings?
On 14 May, a white gunman in body armour killed 10 black shoppers and workers at a supermarket in Buffalo, New York. Ten days later, an attacker shot dead 19 students and their two teachers in their c...
10 Juni 202221min
What can be done to stop the tide of dust storms?
The sky turns orange as a huge cloud of dust rolls toward you. Your vision is impaired and your chest feels tight as you struggle to draw breath. You grab a scarf and wrap it around your face as you ...
2 Juni 202218min
Davos 2022 biggest takeaways
The Berlin Wall fell more than three decades ago, precipitating a generational collapse of political and economic boundaries in Europe. Now, in 2022, conflict and confusion is on the continent's doors...
26 Maj 202222min
Will the Lebanese election be a turning point?
People across Lebanon cast their votes last Sunday in an election that was meant to be different. So much has happened since the last poll, in 2018, when familiar faces were elected from parties larg...
20 Maj 202221min
Sheikh Khalifa’s legacy
President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed died on May 13, 2022, at the age of 73. He was born in September 1948, before the UAE existed as a single nation and before the discovery of oil in the Emirates. In ...
14 Maj 202212min
Is the Covid-19 pandemic over?
On May 16, the European Union will no longer require people to wear masks on planes. Many countries around the world have already started to relax Covid-19 restrictions. And some, like Greece, New Zea...
13 Maj 202224min
The desperation that drove refugees from Lebanon to their deaths at sea
Late one Saturday night towards the end of April, a boat set off to sea from near Lebanon’s second city, Tripoli. It was an ageing craft, nearly 50 years old, built to comfortably hold maybe a dozen p...
6 Maj 202219min
