Launching a $100 million fund to revamp the Palestinian education system; tackling MidEast youth unemployment; ensuring gender parity; building inclusive economies to generate new jobs; reiterating the principles to ensure a healthy relationship in the region; addressing the immediate needs of refugees – these were some of the discussions that took place at the World…
“15 years of the war on terror: much was said, but what was achieved?” That was the question that occupied the minds of some of the region’s most well-respected diplomats, political analysts, academics and policy wonks at the second Al Arabiya Global Discussions Forum that got underway in Dubai today. Assessing the steady resurgence of…
A deadly attack killed at least 38 people – mostly foreign tourists – at a beachfront hotel at Sousse in Tunisia on Friday (26 June). The shootings came on the heels of the fatal attack on the Bardo National Museum in the capital, Tunis, in May. The latest attack, if the developments after it are…
The geopolitical crises in the Middle East have gotten more challenging every year since 2011, and we aren’t yet through with the troubles says Michele Dunne Senior Associate, Middle East Programme, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
Nearly 40 percent of Arab youth in the Middle East feel democracy will never work in the region. This, according to the latest findings of the 7th Annual ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey, which also found that only 15 percent of those polled feel that a lack of democracy is the biggest obstacle facing the…
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And the fall in oil prices seems to be pushing the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) to resort to desperate means to deal with a cash crunch. Hit by the decline in oil prices and the airstrikes launched by an international alliance of countries, the organization is…
Lack of parliamentary approval of Iraq’s 2014 budget is likely to result in a deficit, which will be about five per cent of the gross domestic product. In a meeting with the International Monetary Fund officials in Jordan recently, the Iraqi government expressed its commitment to present a draft 2015 budget to parliament soon. The…
The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant is increasingly putting Turkey in the firing line of a war most of its people do not want, and that its politicians are seeking to avoid, though the conflicts in Syria and Iraq are already taking a toll on the Turkish economy. With ISIL forces…
The number of violent terror attacks in the Arab world has increased, while the number of attacks by non-state armed groups around the world has rapidly spiked in the past five years, according the IHS Jane’s 2013 Global Terrorism & Insurgency Attack Index from IHS Inc, a leading global source of critical information and insight….
Almost 90 per cent of the claims against Jordan-based Arab Bank were dropped as a federal court in New York dismissed thousands of claims by foreign citizens against the bank. The financial entity with $46 billion in assets was accused of financing Palestinian groups such as Hamas and rewarding families of those who were ‘martyred’…
