"Fortis fortuna adiuvat" is a Latin proverb that means that fortune favours the brave or the bold. This old Roman saying seems to have eluded US President Joe Biden in his rushed decision to pull US troops out of Afghanistan. The decision opened the (...)
Supposedly, there is nothing worse than a war, but actually there is something worse – an incomplete war. An incomplete war is a war that has lost its purpose and deviated from its original mission and one that ends in massive compromises and (...)
A decade of pointless negotiations with Ethiopia over the building of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Nile has convinced the Egyptian leadership that it is time to take matters to international mediation before Egypt has to resort (...)
This year's G7 group meeting held in the British county of Cornwall had a massive symbolic and material importance to all those involved as well as to the rest of the world.
This was the first time the leaders of the world's seven largest economies (...)
The Iranian presidential elections are a farcical spectacle that occurs every four years to change the guard in Tehran to newer faces that nevertheless carry on the same destructive domestic and international policies. This has been the case since (...)
Amidst the global economic blues that preceded the Covid-19 pandemic and then were exacerbated by, it was the rising popularity of digital cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin.
The invention of modern currencies passed through many stages of (...)
Reaching the highest office in the land meant that US President Joe Biden accumulated political bills that piled up during his election campaign. Many of those bills are now owed to socialist powers in the US, galvanising Biden's image as the (...)
For the second year running, the Egyptian counter-terrorism TV show Al-Ikhtiyar (The Choice) has been setting new standards of quality for an action show in the region. The show, which became an instant success during Ramadan 2020, is now (...)
Political myopia led the Norwegian Nobel Institute to grant its once highly coveted and prestigious Nobel Peace Prize to a war criminal in 2018. Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was presented with the prize by the institute when he portrayed (...)
The glamour of ancient Egyptian civilisation has never left the collective imagination of every nation, particularly in the West. Countless movies, TV shows, novels and even comics have depicted a vision of what ancient Egyptian civilisation may (...)
Even the most pessimistic observer would have had a hard time forecasting the dire state of affairs in the world today with regard to containing the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic.
The virus, which first surfaced some 15 months ago, has taken the (...)
"A week is a long time in politics" is a saying that has proved its validity over and over again. This week the old political rule manifested itself again as the terrorist-supporting regime of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan began courting (...)
The European Union has not been witnessing its finest hours since the new millennium, and the Covid-19 pandemic has proven to be bigger than the capabilities of the second-largest economy in the world that now comprises 27 European countries after (...)
The 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran had cataclysmic effects on the Middle East that are still rippling through the region today. It gave dormant Islamist movements and terrorists the hope that they could topple governments if they put on enough (...)
It was about a year ago when the first cases of infection with the coronavirus reached the European continent from China. Not even in their worst nightmares could European leaders have projected that this virus of Chinese origin would tear through (...)
“Big Brother is Watching You” is a slogan that became famous thanks to the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by British author George Orwell. The book, written in 1949, depicts a dark and dystopian future in the year 1984 when the world has three main (...)
US President Joe Biden's inauguration as the 46th president of the United States was a spectacle that will not be forgotten by the 330 million Americans and the billions of others around the world who witnessed the presidential inauguration.
The (...)
The last chapter in the most controversial US presidential elections in living memory unfolded on 7 January when thousands of outgoing US president Donald Trump's supporters stormed Capitol Hill in Washington, the seat of the US government (...)
It is an arduous task to describe 2020, whether with a simple adjective or an even a long article, for this has been truly an unprecedented year for those who have witnessed or survived its ordeals. 2020 was the year in which an economic depression (...)
The recent spike in the number of military exercises conducted by the Egyptian armed forces signifies an increasing interest on the part of the government towards securing the country's northern naval borders from growing threats either from (...)
In a year that has witnessed a lot of political changes, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also had much better years in his long political career. This year's events have not only brought Erdogan's megalomaniac ambitions in the (...)
As Europe suffers under the weight of the Covid-19 pandemic, which is witnessing its second and more ferocious wave without a sign of relenting, several terrorist attacks have struck at the heart of France and Austria despite the lockdowns and (...)
The most critical US presidential elections in decades are taking place this week between Republican candidate and incumbent President Donald Trump and Democratic candidate and former US vice-president Joe Biden. It is projected that a record number (...)
While the coronavirus never really disappeared, many countries around the world are now witnessing its massive comeback after having declared that they had managed to bring the outbreak under control.
Countries such as Italy, the United Kingdom, (...)
By getting involved in the renewed conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan over the control of the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has completed the set of being involved in conflicts on almost every front he has (...)