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According to a Bloomberg News survey of economists in mid-August, Qatar's economy will expand at the slowest pace since 1995, as the impact of the Saudi Arabia - led boycott is felt on trade and investor confidence.
Each year, over 4 million Muslims descend on Mecca, Saudi Arabia, over half of them from overseas, for the annual Muslim pilgrimage, or Hajj.
With the 2017 release of The Mummy starring Tom Cruise, public interest in ancient Egyptian civilization has multiplied. Mummies and the story of mummification have grabbed attention far and wide, coming second in world popularity only to the Great Pyramids of Giza.
Recommendations for enhancing our quality of life and achieving personal happiness are found not only in the teaching of world religions; they are also intrinsic to disciplines such as philosophy, sociology and psychology.
For nearly 4,000 years Egypt was renowned as a society of abundance and sophistication, connected at all levels by the ancient world's oldest and most stable central government. It was all thanks to the rich, dark and fertile soil of the mighty Nile valley and delta.
"You cannot really conceive of how insulting it is to Native Americans to be told they were 'discovered'," said Prof. Ivan Van Sertima testifying on July 7, 1987 before a U.S. Congressional Committee in opposition to recognizing the 500th anniversary of Columbus's "discovery" of the Americas.
It was a November evening in 1968 and I was riding an Ottawa bus. Everyone was looking at me, and no wonder. I was wearing a ski mask over my face, something more suitable for the extreme cold of a Canadian February.
Since the late 1990s, I have been a regular visitor to my birth country of Egypt. My love for its unique people, history, nature, food and culture keeps drawing me back. And despite some daunting challenges since 2011, this ancient nation is moving forward.
I met two beautiful people on my recent visit to Egypt. Although geographically and culturally worlds apart, they are nevertheless deeply connected in spirit.
For the past century the global pharmaceutical industry has increasingly placed money ahead of human well-being. It began by researching natural remedies discovered by our ancient ancestors, then synthesizing the active ingredients in their labs, patenting the process... and now, making billions.
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