by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Nov 29, 2016 | World
French conservative Francois Fillon will beat the far-right’s Marine Le Pen by a wide margin in next spring’s election for president, a poll by Kantar Sofres Onepoint showed on Tuesday. Fillon, a former prime minister with radical free-market policies, won...
by Amir Taheri | Nov 8, 2016 | Opinion
Millions of Americans will go the polls today to elect their 45th president at the end of an unusually bruising campaign. Though many have already voted through the post, the question remains: how many will go to the polls today? An estimated 250 million people are...
by Thaer Abbas | May 7, 2016 | World
The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan outlined the next phase for Turkey in the first statement that he made after removing Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu from the political scene. Erdogan announced yesterday that the presidential system is “an urgent...
by Amir Taheri | Dec 19, 2015 | Opinion
Though it is still early days, if things continue as they are we may get the least exciting presidential campaign that the United States has offered for decades. Having spent 10 days in the US this month, a visitor was unable to notice any rise in adrenaline on either...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 14, 2013 | Media
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Although the protests that followed Iran’s disputed presidential election of 2009 were a largely spontaneous movement born out of popular outrage, it reached a global audience in part thanks to the role played by social media platforms. Once...
