Saudi Arabia calls for enhanced international cooperation to address water sector challenges    Survey: 60% will use Riyadh Metro to go for work or school    GCC Preparatory Ministerial Meeting discusses developments in Gaza and Lebanon    Saudi Arabia hosts over 13 million foreign residents from 60 countries, says human rights official    RCRC Chief: Riyadh Metro, featuring environmental sustainability, will improve quality of life and revolutionize transportation    Al Taawoun seals AFC Champions League Two knockout spot with 2-1 win over Al Khaldiya    Al-Jasser: Riyadh Metro to accommodate one million passengers daily    Al-Jasser: 122,000 jobs generated in transport sector in a year    Israelis survey damage and mull return to north as ceasefire begins    Israel to appeal against ICC warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant    Trump nominates Keith Kellogg as special envoy for Ukraine and Russia    Missing hiker found alive after more than five weeks in wilderness    Elon Musk publicizes names of government employees he wants to cut    Al Hilal advances to AFC Champions League knockout stage despite 1-1 draw with Al Sadd    Best-selling novelist Barbara Taylor Bradford dies    Cristiano Ronaldo's double powers Al Nassr to 3-1 win over Al Gharafa in AFC Champions League    Most decorated Australian Olympian McKeon retires    Adele doesn't know when she'll perform again after tearful Vegas goodbye    'Pregnant' for 15 months: Inside the 'miracle' pregnancy scam    Do cigarettes belong in a museum?    Order vs. Morality: Lessons from New York's 1977 Blackout    India puts blockbuster Pakistani film on hold    The Vikings and the Islamic world    Filipino pilgrim's incredible evolution from an enemy of Islam to its staunch advocate    Exotic Taif Roses Simulation Performed at Taif Rose Festival    Asian shares mixed Tuesday    Weather Forecast for Tuesday    Saudi Tourism Authority Participates in Arabian Travel Market Exhibition in Dubai    Minister of Industry Announces 50 Investment Opportunities Worth over SAR 96 Billion in Machinery, Equipment Sector    HRH Crown Prince Offers Condolences to Crown Prince of Kuwait on Death of Sheikh Fawaz Salman Abdullah Al-Ali Al-Malek Al-Sabah    HRH Crown Prince Congratulates Santiago Peña on Winning Presidential Election in Paraguay    SDAIA Launches 1st Phase of 'Elevate Program' to Train 1,000 Women on Data, AI    41 Saudi Citizens and 171 Others from Brotherly and Friendly Countries Arrive in Saudi Arabia from Sudan    Saudi Arabia Hosts 1st Meeting of Arab Authorities Controlling Medicines    General Directorate of Narcotics Control Foils Attempt to Smuggle over 5 Million Amphetamine Pills    NAVI Javelins Crowned as Champions of Women's Counter-Strike: Global Offensive (CS:GO) Competitions    Saudi Karate Team Wins Four Medals in World Youth League Championship    Third Edition of FIFA Forward Program Kicks off in Riyadh    Evacuated from Sudan, 187 Nationals from Several Countries Arrive in Jeddah    SPA Documents Thajjud Prayer at Prophet's Mosque in Madinah    SFDA Recommends to Test Blood Sugar at Home Two or Three Hours after Meals    SFDA Offers Various Recommendations for Safe Food Frying    SFDA Provides Five Tips for Using Home Blood Pressure Monitor    SFDA: Instant Soup Contains Large Amounts of Salt    Mawani: New shipping service to connect Jubail Commercial Port to 11 global ports    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Delivers Speech to Pilgrims, Citizens, Residents and Muslims around the World    Sheikh Al-Issa in Arafah's Sermon: Allaah Blessed You by Making It Easy for You to Carry out This Obligation. Thus, Ensure Following the Guidance of Your Prophet    Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques addresses citizens and all Muslims on the occasion of the Holy month of Ramadan    

Articles of the author Elias Aad
Investing in payment digitization will drive economic growth
While countries and cultures around the world may differ in many aspects, governments are united in their quest for economic growth. As we gradually transition into a post-COVID-19 world, this will become even truer. Amid the resurgence of economic (...)

28 - 06 - 2020
Chicago-based group brings smiles to deaf Syrian children
Six-year-old Aya al-Souqi, a Syrian refugee, held the camera phone up to her gaze and listened to hear her mother. "I hear you!" she exclaimed. It was only the second time she›d spoken to her mother in Beeskow, Germany since getting fitted with a (...)

22 - 03 - 2017
Hatred spills beyond South Sudan along with refugees
Besides bags, blankets and tales of horror, some of the thousands of refugees fleeing South Sudan's civil war each day carry something else - the ethnic hatred the United Nations says is "fertile ground" for genocide. That hatred, fuelled by (...)

17 - 12 - 2016
Syrians struggle to find place to bury their kin in Lebanon
When Saada Khalaf, a Syrian refugee in Lebanon, lost her husband to a long illness earlier this year, she could not find a place to bury him in the eastern Lebanese town where the couple had lived since they fled the civil war back home. The nearest (...)

20 - 04 - 2016
Syrian refugee teachers help fill the education gap
In the refugee camp in eastern Lebanon where Fatima Khaled lives with her two daughters, only three children found a spot in the local school. So when parents found out that Khaled was an educator, they begged her to teach their children. An (...)

03 - 02 - 2016
With Which Iran Are You Negotiating?
Since the beginning of the new round of negotiations over Iran's nuclear program in Geneva, the Iranian delegation has been demanding that it benefit from the opportunity of what it says has become available in terms of an understanding with the (...)

22 - 11 - 2013
Hollande Trading With Iranian Nuclear Program
French President Francois Hollande could have greatly served the peace process in the region by obtaining pledges from the Israelis to allow the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations to take off and reach the desired outcomes in return of his strong (...)

19 - 11 - 2013
A Reassuring Nasrallah
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has tried to reassure his public about the future of his party amid attempts to strike a deal in the region, whether with regard to the Syrian conflict or the Iranian nuclear issue. Hezbollah's secretary general chose a rare (...)

15 - 11 - 2013
The Illusion Of A "Political Solution" In Syria
There is now a quasi-consensus between the mediators dealing with the Syrian crisis as well as the western politicians who are involved in this crisis to say that there will be no military solution to the conflict and that the best way to end it is (...)

12 - 11 - 2013
Iran: A Week For Testing Intentions
This week constitutes a test of the flirtation that began between Washington and Tehran ever since the tortured lover, Barack Obama, did his best to obtain the historic opportunity of having a phone conversation with the so-called "moderate" Iranian (...)

05 - 11 - 2013
Watch Out, Obama Is Watching You!
A joke is circulating in Brazil in relation to the scandal of the U.S. spying on the phone of Brazilian President Dilma Roussef, who figures that the fastest way to inform President Barack Obama of her decision to cancel her visit to Washington is (...)

29 - 10 - 2013
Two Years Since The Fall Of Gaddafi
The British Sunday Times published a report from the Libyan city of Misrata in its latest issue last Monday. Written by the newspaper's correspondent, Christina Lamb, the report sketched a terrifying image of the proliferation of weapons in the (...)

22 - 10 - 2013
The Real Cost Of The Aazaz Deal
In past decades, a scene such as the one witnessed at the Beirut Airport on Saturday night would have been taking place between Israel and the Palestinian Resistance, within the framework of deals to exchange Palestinian prisoners for Israeli (...)

21 - 10 - 2013
An American Gift For Sisi
If General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is in need to complete his image as a national hero who represents "the symbol of Egypt's dignity and the freedom of its decision," and who stands up to all those who meddle in its internal affairs, he has now been (...)

13 - 10 - 2013
Our People Are Paying The Price For Obama's Deals
There is no exaggeration in saying that Barack Obama has disappointed many in the Arab region. Those individuals who had hoped to see the American president stand by the issues of justice and Human Rights and against the violations of the radical (...)

08 - 10 - 2013
Escalation of the Russian Response
Relations between Washington and Moscow have dropped to their lowest level since the era of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan or the era of the Russian shield that Moscow tried to establish over the Belgrade butchers to protect their wars and (...)

03 - 09 - 2013
Rest Assured... It is a "Limited" Strike
The anticipated American strike on Syria could come tonight or tomorrow, with this article's publication or a few days after it. The timing no longer matters. What matters now, rising above the surface of events, is the fact that Barack Obama's (...)

01 - 09 - 2013
A New Obama Thanks to Bashar
If President Bashar al-Assad has succeeded in anything throughout his confrontation with his people and most of the international community, it is the transformation he caused in the way of thinking of President Barack Obama's administration toward (...)

28 - 08 - 2013
The Fastest Track to Collapse
If the bombings, shifting from one area to another in the streets of Lebanon, are meant to spread a state of panic and reciprocal fear – i.e. bluntly put, each sect's fear of the other, and the fear of going through the "other" neighborhoods and (...)

25 - 08 - 2013
Will Al-Assad Profit from the Egyptian Events?
The developments of the Egyptian crisis are prompting numerous questions related to their possible repercussions on the change movement that swept a number of Arab countries, amid hopes that this action would lead to the enhancement of the (...)

21 - 08 - 2013
Responsibility For The Dahieh Bombing
Would it have been possible for Lebanon to avoid the political and security repercussions to which Hezbollah's intervention in the war in Syria was inevitably going to result? Even Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah himself, when he announced for the first (...)

18 - 08 - 2013
Why Is Abu Mazen Heading To The Negotiations?
It would be difficult to find a circumstance in which the Palestinian command would find itself forced to succumb to American blackmail and Israeli arrogance such as the one it is currently facing. Indeed, it knows that cooperating with the calls of (...)

14 - 08 - 2013
Obama and the "Lazy Kid"
It is as if we have returned to the days of Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev at the beginning of the 1980s; talk of a new cold war prevails over US-Russian relations these days. The president of the United States describes the Russian president as (...)

11 - 08 - 2013
Rohani In Power: Between The Illusions And The Wishes
The new Iranian president (the seventh president since the establishment of the Islamic Republic) Hassan Rohani summed up his program in his oath speech by saying that he relies on making a balance between principles and reality; and that he will (...)

06 - 08 - 2013
Hezbollah Following the European Charges
The Lebanese diplomatic corps saw the failure of the campaign it had launched at the European Union to defend Hezbollah and prevent the blacklisting of the party's "military wing." All what this campaign succeeded to do was to reveal the extent of (...)

23 - 07 - 2013
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