MUTZIG, FRANCE: First stop on my annual visit to France’s mighty Maginot Line forts is this lovely Alsatian town. Mutzig was built by the Germans 1893-1916 to defend against enemy approaches to the important ...
PRESIDENT Donald Trump wants to be a modern Stupor Mundi or wonder of the world. The last Stupor Mundi was the celebrated German Holy Roman Emperor and crusader, Federick II, known as Barbarossa.
PRINCE Karim Al-Hussaini, Aga Khan IV, hereditary Imam of the world’s 12-15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims, died recently in Lisbon, Portugal. What a life he led.
The Aga Khan (Great Khan as he was universally ...
SYRIA is the mother of all mysteries. Even the Romans could not figure out all the intrigues, plots, factions, coups and assassinations that were common there. Nor could they understand or deal with its ...
I WAS visiting Japan’s defence headquarters about a decade ago. The official I was to interview was very late and left me cooling my heels in his office.
I kept walking about until I noticed a large diagram ...
THIS city’s splendid Fifth Avenue and parts of the adjacent Central Park were thronged recently by masses of pro-Israel demonstrators demanding more US support of Israel’s laying to waste of Gaza.
