The much-anticipated Arab renaissance, dreamed of by 19th-century reformers, remains elusive. Despite the relative stalemate of the intervening years, the yearning for such a revival is as palpable as ever. Today, we find ourselves wrestling with the same big questions: Can the Arab world...

Reading Stephen Fry’s book "Mythos" recently, one passage struck me as offering a fascinating lens through which we can understand humanity's relationship with technology—particularly artificial intelligence (AI). The ancient Greek myth of the Titan Prometheus, who gave fire to humanity against Zeus’s orders and was condemned...

In the vast theatre of human progress, the advent of digital computers has been nothing short of revolutionary. They’ve shaped industries, altered societies, and redefined what it means to be human in an interconnected world. Yet, as transformative as they’ve been, we stand on...

On a quiet afternoon, without warning, two of Europe’s most advanced societies slipped into darkness. The blackouts that swept across Spain and Portugal were not isolated technical failures. They were symptoms of a deeper, global disease — the silent fragility of the modern world....