December 2017

By: Joseph S. Nye In 2008, when the United States’ National Intelligence Council (NIC) published its Global Trends 2025, a key prediction was tighter energy competition. Chinese demand was growing, and non-OPEC sources like the North Sea were being depleted. After two decades of low and relatively stable prices, oil prices had soared to more than $100 per barrel in …

By: Shakeeb Asrar For centuries, following bloody conflicts, military leaders acknowledged that some weapons were simply too awful to be used, but those same militaries generally continued to use them. The World War I saw the deployment of chemical weapons on a massive scale for the first time. The horror of millions of dead soldiers, in trenches and on battlefields, …

By: Naseem Khan How Ummah can reclaim its lost glory  By any index, the Muslim world produces a disproportionately small amount of scientific output, and much of it relatively low in quality. It is an undeniable fact that 1.6 billion Muslims contribute a smaller share to the world’s knowledge. This global community – forming the majority population of 57 countries …

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Surah-20 Ta Ha/ Ayat 6: To Him belongs what is in the heavens and on earth, and all between them, and all beneath the soil. “There is no secret to success; it is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failures.” With these simple yet powerful words, Collin Powell, a former general in the US Army and the …