By Bernd Debusmann Good news from the Arab world is an increasingly rare commodity. But there are exceptions. Take the United Arab Emirates, where a determined drive is underway to close the knowledge gap with the West and restore Arab learning to its past glory. The...
By Bernd Debusmann America’s millennials, the country’s biggest generation, are falling out of love with capitalism. That is one of the most remarkable findings by Harvard University researchers who recently interviewed more than 3,000 Americans between the ages of 18...
There are walls, fences, trenches and berms. In Iraq, Israel, Morocco, China and elsewhere. They are admissions of the breakdown of diplomacy and destined to fail. An Iraqi street vendor stands beside a concrete wall in Baghdad, 11 February 2016(EPA/Ali Abbas)...
By Bernd Debusmann In the most bizarre U.S. election campaign in generations, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have taken pole position in the race to become the presidential candidates of their parties. Trump easily won the Republican primary in South Carolina on...
By Bernd Debusmann “Would you support or oppose bombing Agrabah?” That was question 38 in a long survey of Republican primary voters a few days after contenders for the party’s presidential nomination argued about foreign policy and national security in their last...