Articles
The markets, music and magic of Marrakech
A weekend guide What Rabat is to politics or Casablanca to commerce, Morocco's third largest city is to tourism.
Big ideas count because we haven't invented the future yet
It is young people who understand innovation best and who seem to have grasped that their future careers depend on being able to innovate and adapt.
It's ugly to claim a place on the pedestal by standing on others
The Arab world does not have a problem with race. If it did, there would be a lot more trouble in teeming urban centres such as Cairo, Amman and Dubai.
Giving begins by looking down from your ladder
Because most of us are so ignorant about how much everyone else earns, we often underestimate our earnings compared to the rest of the population and thus our charitable obligation to them.
Russia's red, white and new
A weekend guide to Moscow Russia's capital is a teeming metropolis of 10 million people, a place where the whole range of Russian life is on display.
Lit by a ghostly presence
Feature From now until July, the sun barely sets in St Petersburg. A walk in the city reveals a spectre of Pushkin in the air.
Looking for Lenin
Feature Does Moscow retain the legacy of Vladimir Lenin, the man who had carved the Soviet Union out of the Russian empire and served as its first leader?
Shared values will forge our identity
This is the story of a country by the sea. A country where, for many generations, people looked around and saw faces and heard voices like theirs.
Old Europe looks in the mirror
As a greying Europe looks across at the new face of America, Europeans have been navel-gazing, wondering why the continent that gave the West its first female leader and its first Jewish leader has not yet elected a head of state of a different race.
