The Lebanese police are always looking for ways to modernise and as part of this quest for improvement they recently introduced police lin...

In the old days in the Levant if you had a mediocre donkey that you wanted to sell you resorted to a time-tested method. You place the medio...

As the year 2013 comes to an end, I selected six of my favourite posts to remember the year with. March: It’s ever so simple: a trib...

This essay was written in August 2013 and was published in German in Novo Argumente . I am publishing it in English for the first time here....

The Lion King engaging in dialogue with a protester While researching the ancient Arab animal fables book Kalīlah wa Dimnah I came acros...

Egypt’s strong man Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has revealed that he had a dream 35 years ago that one day he will be the President of Egypt. The ...

Hezbollah, invariably described by western media as the Shiite Lebanese militant group to distinguish it from all the other Hezbollahs out...