Op-ed

The World Bank Group’s Board of Executive Directors approved today a US$200 million project to increase access for Jordanian youth to jobs and expand government digital services. The Youth, Technology and Jobs project will adopt an integrated approach that aims to capitalize on Jordan’s potential to grow its …

The coronavirus arrived in the Middle East that was enduring a profound political transition. Since then, governments have seen their credibility worn down and their political dexterity tried by difficult economic transitions. The virus is expediting transitions and fractures that are already in the making. “In the silence …

The goal of toppling Saddam Hussein’s regime seemed so worthy but it was actually grandiose. “Man’s real treasure is the treasure of his mistakes, piled up stone by stone through thousands of years,” according to Jose Ortega y Gasset, the great Spanish philosopher of the early twentieth century. …

The WHO, the World Health Organisation, is poised to declare a pandemic over contagion from the Coronovirus or Covid-19. Walter Ricciardi of the organisation’s executive office explained what it means. According to Ricciardi, “within seven maximum ten days from the headquarters in Geneva, the WHO will proclaim the pandemic …

Konstantin Bogdanov On February 4, 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense officially announced the first combat patrol mission of a nuclear-powered submarine carrying low-yield nuclear-tipped ballistic missiles. Some details were reported several days before that: the platform was USS Tennessee, which had went on combat patrol in the …

Last week, many universities and colleges in Europe and other countries canceled classes and moved to online instruction amid coronavirus fears as the authorities are trying to check the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Paradoxically, such measures can prove beneficial to the world’s leading universities that practice online training and have developed platforms …

Andrei Kadomtsev With the number of cases of coronavirus spreading in multiple countries around the globe, the outbreak has already been labeled a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). Global economic relations have been hit hard by the virus, and demands for making the West less dependent …

James Dorsey Saudi Arabia’s oil spat with Russia throws a spanner into the works of the Kingdom’s long-standing effort to hedge its bets, a strategy that has taken on added significance as the Gulf comes to grips with the likelihood that the region’s security architecture will fundamentally change. Saudi …

By Shehab Al Makahleh The whole world is in a state of anxiety. The COVID-19 panic has been a result of the case of vagueness of the nature of the disease and how to contain it rather than how to cure patients who have fallen ill with this …