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Cuban President Raul Castro and US President Barack Obama shake hands moments before the opening ceremony of the VII Americas Summit, in Panama City on April 10, 2015. (AFP Photo/Presidencia Panama)

Opinion: Cuba and the Difficult Changes Ahead

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | May 3, 2015 | Opinion

I recently visited Cuba, as I wanted to see this country—one that almost caused a third world war, and which along with North Korea is the world’s last remaining insular communist nation—before it finally begins to open up to the world and become like other...

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A picture dated Ocotber 13, 1989 shows then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher acknowledging applaud on at the end of the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool. (AFP PHOTO/FILES/JOHNNY EGGITT)

The Link Between Thatcher and Sadat

by Ali Ibrahim | Apr 10, 2013 | Opinion

There is a unique kind of political leader that emerges from time to time in a particular society or country, most often sparking sizable controversy or dispute. Although some of their most notable policies may be hated or unpopular, they nevertheless insist on...

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The crowd cheers as Singapore’s former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew (C) arrives at the Marina Bay Floating Platform for the annual National Day Parade celebrations in Singapore August 9, 2012. (REUTERS/Calvin Wong)

Lessons From a Grand Master

by Samir Atallah | Mar 4, 2013 | Opinion

Lee Kuan Yew is 89 years old and his health is failing, but his interviews with two Harvard professors over the years have recently been collated and immortalized in a book, with both authors considering the Singaporean leader to be a “grand master” of the modern day....