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

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

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 [...]

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 [...]