by Afshin Molavi | Oct 29, 2018 | Original Articles
Nancy Ajram is Lebanese pop royalty. Her candy-sweet songs are hummed across the Arab world. She’s a natural brand ambassador for the biggest global brands targeting the Arab world — and she has hit the airwaves and billboards across the Middle East on behalf of an...
by Afshin Molavi | Oct 29, 2018 | Articles
When the French national team electrified the world two decades ago with a 3-0 drubbing of powerhouse Brazil in the World Cup final, Kylian Mbappé had not yet even been born. On Saturday, the 19-year-old French strikeraccomplished a feat that only one other player has...
by Afshin Molavi | Sep 30, 2018 | Articles
It is one of the most exclusive economic clubs in the world, and it’s not the G20, the G8 or the IMF board of directors. It’s the dwindling list of countries that have retained the gold standard of investment grade status: the AAA rating. From Canada to...
by Afshin Molavi | Sep 30, 2018 | Articles
The more than 100 heads of state have left in a whirl of motorcades and private jets. The 50,000 delegates have gone home. The hundreds of daily seminars, talk shops and panel discussions have gone silent. The camera crews and satellite dishes have been packed up. Rio...
by Afshin Molavi | Sep 30, 2018 | Articles
It was a bravura performance worthy of a Bollywood epic: the son of a tea-seller rose to the highest office in the land, and delivered a rousing, nationalist, uplifting speech in front of tens of thousands of cheering compatriots from the ramparts of an old Mughal...
