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Not only are we seeing political revolutions spring up across the Middle East. We're also rapidly moving forward with social and economic revolutions in the region as well.
After several attempts to catch a taxi back to the ship, one of the local shopkeepers voluntarily came out of his store and helped me flag down a taxi and give the driver directions.
Criss Angel's show is a disgrace and he should be ashamed of himself.
What if I told you the Egyptian capital of Cairo, with 18 million residents and workers in the city each day, has almost no crime of any kind? Despite...
You can stay home and run the risk of car accidents, smoke inhalation, or pneumonia, or you can travel and risk plane crashes and terrorist activity -- which you also risk at home.
I worked in Egypt in the 1990s, visiting sites throughout much of the country, and talking to people of all kinds. As I read about the insurgency and think about my time there, a few word snapshots come to mind.
The majority of the 80 million people of Egypt live in abject poverty. They go to kiosks to make calls. A substantial number have never used the internet. They are not twittering -- they are out on the streets giving vent to three decades of anger.
Until moderate Muslims find each other, 'find the other hand,' and start a global response, nothing less than a cacophony of figurative clapping, we will remain as we are now: voiceless.
The longstanding mystery surrounding the Lost Army of Cambyses -- 50,000 Persian soldiers swallowed up in a hurricane-force sandstorm in 525 BC -- had finally been solved.
Amid much pomp and circumstance, Dr. Peter F. Dorman became the 15th president of the American University of Beirut this week.
The sudden calm aboard the dahabiyya was a shock. Nothing but the blue-silver water of the Nile, passing alongside palms and desert hills, with the silence of wave slurps and birds.
I could not help speculating that each of these women--even the happily married young girl--had been mutilated, but still the sense of family caring was enticingly strong.
There's a new scarlet letter in town. Actually, it's the...
