The speech delivered by Her Majesty Queen Rania at the launch of the National Strategy for Human Resources Development on Monday was stunning.Addressing herself to His Majesty King Abdullah, Queen Rania did not beat around the bush in tackling the flaws of our education structure

After seeing the shocking and unprecedented images of a lone middle-aged woman lying on a beach in Nice surrounded by armed police and ordered to remove her top at gunpoint, it certainly came as some relief to learn, days later, that France’s highest administrative court suspende

The impact of the few active crises in our region tends to overshadow a long list of many other issues pending settlement for decades.Today, most concern, both in and outside our region, is drawn in the direction of the war in Syria, the war in Iraq, the war in Libya and the war

It is becoming commonly acceptable that many Arab countries are heading towards partition.Analysts claim that any future settlement of the crises in Syria, Libya, Iraq and even Yemen may have to include dividing those countries along ethnic or sectarian lines.Some even affirm tha

Last Saturday, the UN-brokered Yemen peace talks in Kuwait collapsed without a breakthrough amid continued fighting, apparently due to lack of common grounds upon which reasonable compromises could have been reached.At the same time, the situation in Syria has entered a new and m

Like the many annual Arab summits in the last decade, the latest in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott was an unexciting event.Other than expressions of goodwill, empty promises and routine political rhetoric, the summit produced nothing that can be viewed as hopeful.One cannot e

Exactly one week after the shocking coup attempt in Turkey, which would have seen the country engulfed in chaos had it succeeded, and after the atrocious terror attack in Nice, we found ourselves glued to our TV screens and multimedia outlets, yet again, to witness the latest atr

The attempted military coup in Turkey on Friday sent shockwaves through the country and around the world.

The Chilcot inquiry into the Iraq war and Tony Blair’s decision to join the US-led coalition and take the UK to war in Iraq in 2003 published its long-awaited and damning, and final, 2.6-million word report on July 6, 2016.Many commentators, however, believe the Chilcot report ma