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Shadi Ghanim's take on the controversy surrounding Lebanon's central bank and why its audit came to an end

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Shadi Ghanim's take on public expectations with regard to a Covid-19 vaccine by Christmas

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Shadi Ghanim's take on the Lebanese political establishment's refusal to enact reforms

Cartoon for November 23, 2020
Shadi Ghanim's take on US President-elect Joe Biden's challenges as Donald Trump refuses to concede

Cartoon for November 22, 2020
Our cartoonist Shadi Ghanim's take on Syria

Cartoon for November 20, 2020

Our cartoonist Shadi Ghanim's latest take on Donald Trump 

Cartoon for November 19, 2020
Our cartoonist Shadi Ghanim's take on the race for the vaccine 

Cartoon for November 18, 2020
Shadi Ghanim's take on the US perspective of the signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership

Cartoon for November 17, 2020
Shadi Ghanim's take on a world in lockdown due to the coronavirus pandemic

Cartoon for November 16, 2020
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EDITOR'S PICKS
UAE space minister Sarah Al Amiri and British-Iraqi health expert Dr Nisreen Alwan were both named on the BBC's most influential list. Emirates Mars Mission/University of Southampton

Middle Eastern women appear on the BBC’s most influential list

Europe
John Martin St. Valery, chairman of the British Business Group in Dubai, said the law change has attracted a flurry of interest from UK businesses keen to set up in the UAE. Chris Whiteoak / The National

UAE company law changes set to spur investment from post-Brexit Britain

Economy
President-elect Joe Biden is likely to nominate former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to head the US Treasury. If confirmed by the Senate, Ms Yellen would be the first woman to assume the position and be tasked with steering the world's largest economy as it faces mass layoffs and a sharp growth slowdown caused by Covid-19. AFP

Why Janet Yellen's nomination to lead Treasury bodes well for the US economy

Economy
Then US Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken playing with The Coalition of the Willing and Jeff Baxter, of the band Steely Dan, during an event at British Embassy in Washington DC. Posted on Mr Blinken's Twitter.

The musical past of secretary of state nominee Antony Blinken

The Americas
Yubraj Bhusal met his newborn daughter for the first time in November, eight months after his wife died shortly after childbirth. Courtesy: Yubraj Bhusal 

Dubai father meets baby daughter eight months after wife died

Health