May 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Hidden almost literally under the rubble of war in Syria is an economic success story that is rarely told. Hanan Odah is a 30-year-old Palestinian refugee living in Jaramana refugee camp in Damascus. She supports her family of three, displaced several times, from a thriving […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Wednesday 17 May 2017 JEDDAH: US President Donald Trump’s first official foreign trip since taking office will include three key summits on May 20-21, attended […]
May 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Kaushik Basu Global inequality today is at a level last seen in the late nineteenth century — and it is continuing to rise. With it has come a surging sense of disenfranchisement that has fuelled alienation and anger, and even bred nationalism and xenophobia. As […]
Source: BBC Australian Treasurer Scott Morrison has unveiled a new budget which includes a surprise rise in taxation for the country’s five biggest banks from July. Mr Morrison also announced […]
Relying on the stock market to react rationally to a terrorist attacks is hardly a sound investment strategy. Borussia Dortmund shares actually rose the day after the attack Tom Smith 7 […]
Source: BBC By Rachel Nuwer 18 April 2017 The political economist Benjamin Friedman once compared modern Western society to a stable bicycle whose wheels are kept spinning by economic growth. […]
Will Martin, Business Insider Saturday 18 February 2017 By 2050, the world is likely to have changed drastically from what we know now, and the planet’s economic and financial landscape will be no exception. A report from professional services giant PwC looks at which economies around the world will be […]
By Valerie Thurner APR 14, 2017 Swiss agronomist Florian Studer (r) with Ugandan cocoa-producer Beka Ara Kisekka.(swissinfo.ch) A Swiss start-up has launched an experiment in Uganda to give cocoa […]
By Veronica DeVore APR 10, 2017 A Catholic priest and a Protestant pastor blessed the new Gotthard rail tunnel at its opening in June 2016(Keystone) Are Swiss pastors really […]
Reuters International APR 10, 2017 – Activist investor Bashar Qasem, President and CEO of Azzad Asset Management Inc, speaks to a client during a conference in Huntington Beach, California, U.S. […]
Apr 09,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Fahed Fanek There is an old but persisting question: Why does the world go forward, while we stay back? This is a basic question that few dare answer. It will remain on the table waiting for those who have the necessary courage to deal with […]
By Yolande KnellBBC News, Jerusalem 13 May 2013 From the sectionMiddle East These are external links and will open in a new window Image captionThe Tamar drilling platform sits 25km off the coast of Israel For decades, it seemed that most countries of the Levant, east of the Mediterranean Sea, […]
Source: The Guardian Campaigners point out that substances used to manufacture the nerve agent were exported to Damascus in the 80s Syrian chemical weapons being removed from the country on a Danish cargo ship in 2014. Photograph: Petros Karadjias/AP By Jamie Doward Evidence that the sarin nerve agent was used in […]
ARDA SAYINER@ardasayiner ISTANBUL Çemberlitaş Bath From the conquest of Constantinople on, the Ottoman Empire built thousands of public baths in every corner of the city as well as in Anatolian […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL The deal Exxon Mobil and Qatar Petroleum signed with Greek Cyprus was construed as the unilateral utilization of the island’s resources by Turkey, hence not acceptable. (Reuters […]
INDYSTYLE TWO NEIGHBORS: PALESTINIAN AND ISRAELI SEAMSTRESSES BROUGHT TOGETHER BY FASHION BRAND IN BID FOR PEACE Seamstresses and embroiders at Two Neighbours meet bi-annually / Two Neighbors The clothing brand […]
Reuters International MAR 29, 2017 – By Rajendra Jadhav and Mayank Bhardwaj MUMBAI/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – A crackdown on unlicensed abattoirs in India’s most populous state has spread to other […]
Clay Dillow Mar 28, 2016 If war is a nasty business, it’s also a lucrative one. New figures released by the State Department show that the United States has sold […]
EKREM BUĞRA EKINCI@EkremBEkinci ISTANBUL A painting portraying a market place in former Ottoman capital Bursa. During the Seljuk and Ottoman period, trade was an important part of daily life and […]
AUGUST 8, 2014 BY ATIF MIAN AND AMIR SUFI Economists of all stripes are baffled by continued economic weakness in the United States. The easiest way to see the weakness is to compare where we are in terms of GDP today relative to historical trend growth, something we did in […]