In my final speech as Hong Kong’s governor on June 30, 1997, a few hours before I left the city on Britain’s royal yacht, I remarked that, “Now, Hong Kong...
One of COVID-19’s paradoxes has been the way in which some wealthy, high-capacity countries (particularly the United States and the United Kingdom) failed to...
The unprecedented financial crisis that reared its head and devastated Lebanon late last year is still worsening, and promises to impoverish the majority of...
The COVID-19 pandemic must not lead governments to lower their climate ambitions. Accelerating the transition to a low-carbon sustainable economy can both...
To exorcise my worst fears about the coming decade, I chose to write a bleak chronicle of it.
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When people went back to work in Geneva recently, breaking weeks of lockdown, they were surprised by unusually crowded roads.
The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into a dangerous state of disequilibrium, in which the siren call of populist nationalism and the clear,...
Among its many other effects, the COVID-19 crisis has intensified the pre-existing geopolitical rivalry between China and the United States.
Following my article published in this esteemed newspaper on March 22, 2020, in which I proposed that Lebanese banks “take the bull by the horn,“ lead the way...
In April 2011, Donald Trump, then considering a run for the presidency the following year, said that he had sent investigators to Hawaii to check out rumors...
The coronavirus pandemic has battered education systems in developing and developed countries around the world. If one of the biggest and oldest universities...
Lebanon was once described as a “sinking ship” in 2001 prior to Paris I, the first international donor conference after the Civil War that promised aid...
Last January, U.S. President Donald Trump reasserted his desire for NATO to be more involved in the Middle East. Following previous calls from U.S....
In addition to the euro crisis, Brexit, and COVID-19, Europe now faces a constitutional crisis, as the Court of Justice of the European Union and Germany’s...
The Seychelles, a string of 115 verdant, rocky islands in the Indian Ocean, recently announced – in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic – that it would...
COVID-19 is a ticking time bomb in Africa. Some of the risks are widely documented. Health care systems are weak and overburdened, with 10 African countries...
I did not agree with my friend, who is a renowned energy expert, that the environment was the only beneficiary of the coronavirus pandemic.
On April 11, my brother, Tawfiq, and three other journalists were sentenced to death by a specialized criminal court in Sanaa, after almost five years of...
The COVID-19 crisis has disrupted almost every aspect of life, but not sex. Both wanted and unwanted intimacy occurs during a pandemic. With reduced mobility...
The government's economic blueprint and the aforementioned steps have sparked many debates and discussions, both around the country and internationally.
The COVID-19 crisis has emboldened advocates of protectionism and deglobalization.
Nobel laureate Amartya Sen defined human agency as “what a person is free to do and achieve in pursuit of whatever goals or values he or she regards as...
The global economy will be shaped in the years ahead by three trends.
In a way, the COVID-19 pandemic is an experiment that can reveal how humans adapt in response to a near-halt in normal life and economic activity.