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n this photo the website of the United State’s biggest bank, JPMorgan Chase, is displayed on a computer screen, Tuesday, July 16, 2013, in Atlanta. Banks large and small are girding for an elaborate drill this week that will test how they’d fare if hackers unleashed a powerful and coordinated attack against them. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Opinion: Do we need a global cyber-terrorism charter?

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Jan 18, 2015 | Opinion

Without Twitter or YouTube, how many supporters would the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) or Al-Qaeda have? These, and other, social media and video-sharing websites have made it easy for criminals and extremists to contact and interact with the general public...

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Jordanians gather outside a mosque during Friday prayers, following a demonstration against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and demanding the freedom of Jordanian pilot Muadh Al-Kasasbeh, in downtown Amman on December 26, 2014. (AFP Photos.)

Opinion: Jordan’s ISIS Dilemma

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Dec 28, 2014 | Opinion

War is war, with blood, wounds, captivity, bereavement, anxiety, deception, resolution and reluctance. It has been like that throughout history, from the time of bows and spears to the age of F-16 fighter jets and Tomahawk missiles. We have all heard about the...

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A supporter holds a poster of Tunisian presidential candidate Beji Caid El-Sebsi as he celebrates after the first results following the second round of the country’s presidential election, in Tunis, on December 21, 2014. (AP Photos/Hassene Dridi)

Opinion: Between Sebsi and Sisi

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Dec 25, 2014 | Opinion

There are many exciting similarities between Tunisia and Egypt. The two countries have followed almost exactly the same course, from the chaotic bedlam of the Arab Spring to the almost similar surnames of their current presidents, Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi and Beji Caid...

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An image from a propaganda video by Al-Furqan Media allegedly shows the leader of the ISIS Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi on July 5, 2014 (AFP PHOTO / HO / AL-FURQAN MEDIA)

Opinion: Sharing a World with Baghdadi?

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Dec 21, 2014 | Opinion

If you don’t like what you are seeing in reality, you can escape to your imagination, fleeing from the known to the unknown. This is the reality for people today, particularly those in the Middle East who are facing desperate hardships, whether we are talking about...

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A picture taken on July 1, 2014 shows a North Oil Company gas field located near a checkpoint held by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), some 30 kilometres southwest of the disputed Iraqi city of Kirkuk. (AFP Photo/Marwan Ibrahim)

Opinion: Oil and Politics

by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Dec 13, 2014 | Opinion

In April 2014, when the Russian President Vladimir Putin was at the peak of his tsarist splendor after his invasion and subsequent annexation of Crimea, he spoke about his ability to control Europe’s gas and energy supplies. He was like a hurricane, blowing away any...