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In "Opinion / OP-ED"
October 01, 2017
Finally, women can drive
October 01, 2017
Amr Moussa’s diary!
The defeat of ultra-nationalist parties in the Netherlands and in France earlier this year gave European leaders the sense that fear of a far-right surge had, after all, been misplaced. As it turns out, it was the relief that was misplaced.Europe remains a battleground between nationalist forces, conventional right or left governments and parties that cleave to broadly liberal positions. It is not alone. Across the world, the same impulses to define a state according to ethnic or historic criteria, or to put existing states “first,” grow in diverse forms.Two referenda illuminate the trend. One, in the Kurdistan region of Iraq on Sept. 25, produced an almost 93 percent vote in favor of Kurdish independence, followed by an immediate demand from the Iraqi government to invalidate the vote...
September 30, 2017
Europe’s war of the nationalists picks up steam
September 29, 2017
Uber’s London fight a sign of tech battles to come
September 29, 2017
New Japanese party challenges Abe with populist slogans
In 2008, in a fit of pique over Angela Merkel’s cautious response to the global financial crisis, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, lashed out at his German counterpart.“While France is acting, Germany is just thinking about it,” Sarkozy seethed.Nearly a decade later, after an election that has weakened Merkel and vaulted a new far-right party into the German parliament, European fears of a risk-averse, inward-looking Germany are back.“If you are sitting in other European capitals, you are watching nervously,” said Robin Niblett, director of the Chatham House think tank in London. “Merkel’s room to take conciliatory positions, to play a leadership role and to move Europe forward has narrowed.”Back in 2008, the complexity of the fast-moving financial crisis and an...
September 28, 2017
The new risk for Europe: An inward-looking Germany
September 27, 2017
Haj and Saudi Arabia: An incontrovertible truth
September 26, 2017
Pakistanis celebrate Saudi Arabia’s National Day
At the World Airline Awards held at the Paris Air Show on June 20, Skytrax announced the world’s Top 100 Airlines in 2017, as voted by airline customers around the world. The awards, described as “the Oscars of the aviation industry,” are the most coveted quality accolades for the world airline industry and a global benchmark of airline excellence.Saudi Arabia’s national airlines surprised many industry pundits when it garnered a heap of awards at the ceremony. It was named the World’s Most Improved Airline, an award that reflects an airline’s quality improvement across the entire Airline Awards program. This analyses an airline’s change within the global ratings, and its performance improvement in many of the award categories (e.g., airport service, cabin staff, catering,...
September 26, 2017
Saudi Airlines lives up to its pledge
September 25, 2017
Where are the sanctions against Myanmar?
