by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Oct 19, 2017 | World
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he hoped Moscow could cooperate with Washington in a broader range of fields. “We have dialogue at the work level and on the level of the special services, the defense ministries, the foreign ministries. We...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 1, 2016 | Middle East
London – While Yusra Madrini was taking swimming lessons in Damascus, she didn’t know that it will save her life one day while trying to cross Aegean Sea. In August 2015, Mardini left her war-torn country Syria to Lebanon, after their house was destroyed in Damascus....
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jul 25, 2016 | Sports
Lausanne-Russian athletes were offered a lifeline on Sunday after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) rejected clarion calls for Russia to be banned from next month’s Rio Olympics over the nation’s doping record. The IOC ruling states that decisions...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 11, 2014 | World
Sochi, AP—It’s an issue that comes up in the early days of almost every Olympics: What to do about those empty seats and lack of buzz? It’s the case again in Sochi, with some senior Olympic officials voicing concern about less-than-capacity crowds and a...
by Barçin Yinanç | Apr 14, 2013 | Majalla Blogs
Imagine yourself catching a taxi in Paris or London. On discovering you are a tourist, the driver may—or likely will not—inquire after your opinion of the city. This is small talk, and the driver invests little in your response. The experience is rather different in...
