Iraq’s missed economic opportunities fueling strife
Years of economic mismanagement, corruption and runaway spending has fueled an uprising in civilian protests in Iraq that has killed scores of people and...
Lebanon: Hariri out, now what?
Victory #1 for this new Lebanon, check. Yesterday at 3pm, Saad al-Hariri resigned as Lebanon’s prime minister on Tuesday, declaring he had hit a...
Lebanese protesters want to kick out the regime
The same flag all over Lebanon, after the same burning tires all over our TV screens: thousands of protesters continued to demonstrate on Friday...
Marc Goutalier on Saudi Arabia: “Riyadh aims to diversify its portfolio”
ByTheEast: Saudi Arabia is currently in the spotlight. What can we expect from Russian president Vladimir Putin's visit to Riyadh today?
Marc
Goutalier: In geopolitical terms...
Lebanon Inc., With a little help from my friends
“Our house is burning and we are looking elsewhere,” the French President Jacques Chirac said, back in 2002 at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in...
Crisis? What crisis?
It was the riots waiting to happen. Hundreds of Lebanese protested Sunday in the country's capital and other areas over an economic crisis that...
What future for Egypt’s new capital city?
Egypt's new capital is not a mirage in the desert anymore. But still. It's far from being completed. Forging new capitals from scratch ain't...
(Failed) State of emergency
"All these accidents that happen follow the dots", the songs says. Lebanese deep crisis is no exception. Except nothing here is accidental. This is...
The 1001 challenges facing Syrian refugees in Lebanon
It comes as no surprise, the new UN annual report shows how Syrian refugees in Lebanon still face many challenges. Lebanon Crisis Response Plan...
Water scarcity in the Middle East, the growing normal
Water scarcity
is not a modern phenomenon, nor are wars over access to water. 4,500 years ago,
in what was then known as Iraq, a battle...