British diplomat Martin Griffiths, the new UN Special Envoy for Yemen, carries a stack of mediation qualifications so deep that he is viewed as the be...

As the first signs of spring 2018 dawn upon the nations of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), it has become all the more reckless to hypothesize as t...

On December 5, 2017, Kuwait Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani announced the abrupt ending of the 38th Annual Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Summit on its ...

In October 2017, the government-owned news outlet The Jordan Times reported that Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Imad Fakhoury had ...

In July 2017 the Central Bank of Egypt announced that they would not issue legislation allowing the trading of cryptocurrencies. The result is that Bi...

Tunisia has reached a fork in the road. At the end of one path, there is a complete democratic transition wherein the voices of the citizens are heard...

For a long time China had viewed the Middle East as a US influence zone. But, as a reflection of its growing power and ambitions, it is now becoming a...

In March 2015, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi announced at the Egypt Economic Development Conference the intent of the government to build a n...

In June 2017, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), and Egypt cut political and economic ties with Qatar over an accusation that it s...

On April 9, 2016, Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi announced that two Egyptian islands–Tiran and Sanafir–were located inside the Sau...

Iranian politics is usually characterised by a political contestation between two broadly defined camps: Hardliner conservatives and moderate reformis...

In a statement posted on his personal website, Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud called for the end of the prohibition on driving f...

The recent referendum in Turkey changed its system from a parliamentary government to a presidential one. The newly empowered president will be able t...

We are all familiar with the doomsday scenario of a hacker collective taking control of an entire electrical grid and plunging an entire economy into ...

Whether it’s importing products from Italy or Spain or selling to customers in Germany and France, Europe has been a major market for Britain’s online...

Fine art has long played a role in a balanced investment portfolio. However, with tremors in global financial markets, greater volatility entering the...

Brexit fears, a threatened boycott of British produce post-Brexit over GM contamination fears by the EU, price spikes, supply issues and the usual lit...

Successful companies invest in high-quality products and businesses.  Standout companies, those able to create positive change to their surroundings, ...

For those of you that might have listened to the BBC World Service Business Daily podcast today, you will have no doubt heard about the struggles of r...

The Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is, of course, operating in a very challenging time. OPEC is facing serious competition in th...