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From Al Jazira to Al Nassr: Why global brands want a piece of Gulf sport | The National

Once upon a time, a sports sponsorship in the Gulf meant a logo on a football shirt. Today, the region’s clubs, athletes and sporting events are becoming valuable platforms for global brands, and the partnerships are as much about culture, influence and international reach as they are about sport.

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'Our Partisan Kingdom' and 'Written in a Barn': Holocaust survival up close and personal - review

There are lies, damn lies, and then there are statistics. Thus posited Mark Twain, who attributed the origin of that scathing observation to 19th-century Jewish British Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli. The saying suggests that attempting to encapsulate some event or other in pure numerical terms belies the facts-on…

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'Children of Abraham': Over a millennium of Jewish-Muslim relations - review

Marc David Baer is a professor of history at the London School of Economics. “For the past 10 years,” he wrote recently, “I have taught a seminar… titled ‘Muslim-Jewish Relations: History and Memory in the Middle East and Europe.’ Many of the students are young Jewish or Muslim men and women from London, who grew up…

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