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...
by Afshin Molavi | Sep 30, 2018 | Articles
Turkey has been no stranger to drama, the past year alone witnessing an attempted coup on President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (followed by a fierce government crackdown), a rising Daesh threat, explosive tensions in Kurdish regions of the country, and the geopolitical...
by Afshin Molavi | Sep 30, 2018 | Articles
Singapore. Though it may be one of the world’s smallest countries (at less than a quarter the size of Washington, DC), this tiny city-state has been punching above its weight for decades.
