Dropping the Agenda: A Road to Effective Leadership
What Makes a Good Leader? By Steph Smith “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” – Ronald Reagan I recently woke up with the realization that I’ve been leading a team for well over a year. What was once very foreign and daunting More...
The great October victory
Dr Amira Abo el-Fetouh On every anniversary, people attack the 1973 October War and turn a great victory into a crushing defeat. Some are sick enough to let their imaginations take over and describe the More...
The story of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder and how the world looked the other way
By Evan Ratliff, Insider – Pocket One year ago, the journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul and never walked out. In the months that followed, the facts of his disappearance More...
Did Saudi push Yemen’s Zaydi community into Iran’s hands?
By Omar Ahmed It has been argued that the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam is closer to mainstream Sunni Islam than it is to the Twelver Shias who form the majority in Iran. This is particularly so in regards to More...
Historic Background Of The Republic of Somaliland
By ANIIS A. ESSA Somaliland is not an entity which was born after the disintegration of the Siad Barre dictatorship. In pre-historic times it was known as the land of Punt. Many, including recently More...
20 Slang Terms From World War I
Paul Anthony Jones, Mental Floss – Pocket One of the subtlest and most surprising legacies of the First World War—which the United States entered more than 100 years ago, when the country declared More...
Next up, a Saudi embassy in Jerusalem
Asa Winstanley @AsaWinstanley It is open season for Arab normalisation with Israel. The brutal absolutist monarchies which rule in the Arab Gulf countries have increasingly found common cause with More...
Why the CIA doesn’t spy on the UAE
By Aram Roston The United Arab Emirates finances the military leader trying to topple a United Nations-recognized government in Libya. It helps lead a coalition of nations imposing an economic blockade of More...
What happens when herd mentality rules our minds.?
By Jama Falaag Education and experiences fail to condition our minds. Our minds begin to function in a groove. Our sense neither enriches our literature nor elevates our thoughts. We get stuck to what we know More...
The flame of hatred still burns around Al-Aqsa Mosque
By Ahmed Atoun On the fiftieth anniversary of the infamous act of arson at Al-Aqsa Mosque, when the flames of hatred were ignited and engulfed the Noble Sanctuary, the fire is still burning not only More...
