The unexpected success of the Dubai chocolate has soft power lessons for the United Arab Emirates.
Bobby Ghosh
Ghosh, a former TIME foreign correspondent and International Editor, is a commentator on geopolitics.
Hamas is a government, a militia, a social movement and a patronage network rolled into one. To lose power in Gaza is, for Hamas, to lose its very reason for being.
President Donald Trump helped secure a ceasefire in Gaza. Now, he must see this fragile peace through to something more durable.
After meeting with Xi and Putin, India's Prime Minister "will need to find a face-saving way to make up with Trump," writes Bobby Ghosh.
Trump mistakes the buzz of activity, the presence of cameras, the gravity of the moment for actual achievement.
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Brazilians are ambivalent about hosting the world cup, but, as these superfans show, their passion for the sport is undimmed
Brazil-based Sebastián Liste took these powerful photos of soccer fans and soccer players in Rio de Janeiro, for whom football is no mere pastime, it is a religion.
This week, TIME International editor Bobby Ghosh stood for a photograph with the Brazilian soccer legend Pelé—a snap that both fulfilled a childhood dream and ended a journalist's longstanding frustration
Time to stop imagining he's some kind of hipster-cleric and judge him by what he does
Japan's Abe worries a conflict could be sparked by something unexpected
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As the World Economic Forum (WEF) kicks off Tuesday in the snowbound Swiss town of Davos, more than 40 heads of state and government will...
When Viswanathan Anand and Magnus Carlsen lean over the chessboard at Chennai’s Hyatt Regency on Nov. 9 for Game 1 of the World Chess Championship, it will mark the coming together of the sport’s first superstar with its first sex symbol.
TIME contract photographer Yuri Kozyrev and editor-at-large Bobby Ghosh traveled to southern Abyan province in Yemen for this week's cover story in TIME International. Here, Ghosh recounts their travels with a Yemeni Central Security Force (CSF) patrol through territory plagued by al-Qaeda.
Bhutan receives fewer visitors in a year than New York City does in a day. The country's breathtaking vistas and rich culture, captured here by Photographer Bharat Sikka, remain despite recent steps towards modernity.
Morocco's Islamists are not seeking to take their country back to some ancient golden age, but instead trying to bring it to the 21st Century without losing its religious moorings.
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