What’s Behind The Chelsea FC-Qatar Story?
ANALYSIS: The Battersea Power Station is one of those things GCC countries tend to love: ‘Iconic’.
‘Creeping Sharia’?: The New Twitter Craze
DAVID ROBERTS: ‘Ignorance is bliss’ particularly when it generates such wonderful wit from the Twittersphere.
UK PM visits White House
VIDEO, ITN: Cameron officially begins his US tour with a ceremony with Obama at the White House. The leaders share jokes on their common history…
News Analysis: U.S Army Sniper Goes Public
Chris Kyle, an American soldier based in Iraq, was handed a sniper rifle in 2003 as troops entered an Iraqi town. In a six year spell he killed tens of Iraqis.
Hajj Exhibition: ‘Standing in Another’s Shoes’
SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED: A major exhibition in the British Museum is attempting to recreate the experience of Hajj.
What High Heels Say About Economic Cycles
SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED: Usually, in an economic downturn heels go up as consumers turn to more flamboyant fashion as a means of escape…
Kingmakers, Invention of the Modern Middle East
STEVE ROYSTON: Book Review: Here you’ll find the Britons and Americans – proconsuls, agents provocateurs, spies, politicians – that shaped the Middle East.
Controlling Syria’s Future: In Whose Hands?
RAMZY BAROUD: The lines are thus drawn, between US-led Western camp and Russia and its own camp, which vehemently rejects a repeat of a Libyan scenario.
West’s 1% salivates over spoils of the Libyan 99%
MONDOWEISS, MATTHEW TAYLOR: Whatever one thinks of The West’s role in this revolution, it should not have a free pass to engage in more oil imperialism.




