Archives for the ‘Focus’ Category

Pirates’ Eyl

By Trends • Dec 18th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Gangs of seaborne bandits are plaguing a key international shipping route, but a showdown with the world’s navies looms.



Talk to the Boss

By admin • Dec 14th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Middle East consultant Reza Zia-Ebrahimi argues that relations with Iran need to focus on the right person – and it isn’t President Ahmadinejad.



Five Myths on Iran

By Reza Zia-Ebrahimi • Nov 16th, 2008 • Category: Focus

A lack of understanding has created dangerous misconceptions
about the country’s attention-grabbing maneuvers.



Here We Go Again

By admin • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Price riots in Egypt are forcing the government to rethink the country’s
subsidy regime. But is it just tinkering, or something more?



A continent all its own

By admin • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Ignore the saber-rattling and nukes fears that dominate the headlines. Iran surprises and delights all who visit it.



Doha calling

By admin • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Qatar’s staging of the Asian Games was just the start of the country’s race to best its equally ambitious neighbors.



Raiders of the lost art

By admin • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Iraq’s cultural catastrophe continues, with highly organized gangs still plundering archaeological treasures five years after the US invasion.



Building Palestine

By admin • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Focus

Senior engineer Nabil Barghouthi clicks the cursor on his computer, displaying buildings in red and roads in green, on a master plan that could make Palestinian history.
 
“This area is left for a secondary school,” says Barghouthi, of the Bayti Real Estate and Investment Company. “The clinic must be in a residential area – at a [...]



The flight from d

By admin • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Focus



Enemies of promise

By admin • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Focus

When Gulf Cooperation Council rulers met early last month in Doha for their 28th Summit, the Gulf region was preoccupied with the war in Iraq, while under the threat of a new confrontation involving Iran. The Summit host, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifah Al Thani, the emir of Qatar, warned that [...]