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Obama's Lincolnesque Nobel Peace Prize

William Bradley | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Iran, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, Cairo, George W. Bush, Abraham Lincoln, Taliban, Iraq, Nobel Peace Prize, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, 9/11, Emancipation Proclamation, Civil War, World News
William Bradley

Lincoln is Obama's professed ideal. We remember Lincoln today from civics lessons and the monument in Washington, but the historical reality is that he was both soaring idealist and ruthless pragmatist.

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Hamas leaders head to Cairo to hammer out Shalit deal

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Israel, Home News

Hamas delegates headed to Cairo on Monday to debate a final prisoner list presented by Israel for an exchange which would see the release of abducted ...

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Soccer game fractures relations between Algeria, Egypt

WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.20.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Algeria, Egypt, Home News

Angry football fans converge on the Algerian embassy in Cairo. Photo: madmonk Hoda Osman, a special correspondent for Worldfocus and an Egyp...

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Egypt-Algeria in football spat

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.19.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Algeria, Egypt, Home News

Cairo recalls ambassador over reports of attacks on fans after World Cup qualifier. ...

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A matter of life and death? (Egypt vs Algeria is more important than that)

The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Algeria, Egypt, Home News

Had Bill Shankly hailed from Cairo rather than a Scottish mining village, he might have said: "Football's not a matter of life and death - but it can...

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A matter of life and death? (Egypt vs Algeria is much more important than that)

The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.17.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Algeria, Egypt, Home News

Had Bill Shankly hailed from Cairo rather than a Scottish mining village, he might have said: "Football's not a matter of life and death - but it can...

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Ancient Mummies Had Heart Disease

AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: Heart Problems, Egyptian Mummies, Cairo, Egypt, Mummies Heart Disease, Mummies, Health News, Risk Factors, Egyptian National Museum of Antiquities, Heart Disease, Ancient Mummies, World News

ORLANDO, Fla. — You can't blame this one on McDonald's: Researchers have found signs of heart disease in 3,500-year-old mummies. "We think of i...

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Cairo match ends peacefully

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Algeria, Egypt, Home News

No violent incidents as Egypt celebrates football victory over Algeria. ...

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Rivalries persist over Cairo match

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 11.14.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Algeria, Egypt, Home News

Tensions rise as Algeria and Egypt prepare for crucial World Cup qualifying game....

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Algerian Soccer Team Attacked With Bricks In Bloody Cairo Assault (VIDEO)

Posted 11.13.2009 | Sports

Read More: Cairo Football Attack, Algerian Football Team Attacked, Video, Algeria Soccer Team Attack, Cairo, Egypt, Algeria, Soccer, Algerian Football Bus Attack, Algerian Soccer Bus Attack, Cairo Soccer Attack, Sports News

A bus carrying the Algerian national soccer team was attacked after leaving the airport in Cairo, Goal.com reports. According to the web site, bricks ...

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Interview: Hezbollah And Hamas on Obama, Netanyahu, Terrorism ... And Oprah

Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

Read More: Netanyahu, Al Qaeda, Mahmoud Abbas, Barak, Emir of Qatar, Islamists, Extremism, Ammar Mousawi, Peace Process, Bernard Kouchner, Palestine, Lebanon, Obama, Hezbollah, Hamas, Shiite, Lieberman, US State Department, Middle East, Usama Hamdan, Cairo, Oprah, Taliban, Khaled Meshaal, Israel, US President, Resistance, Abu Mazen, Hassan Nasrallah, Us, Terrorism, Sunni, World News
Sharmine Narwani

While both groups embrace Islamic values as their core ideology and driving principle, their political actions appear to be driven more by realpolitik than Quranic mandate.

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Deadly train crash in Egypt

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Home News

At least 15 people killed when two trains collide southwest of Cairo....

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Deaths as Egyptian trains crash

Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.24.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Home News

At least 14 people killed when two trains collide southwest of Cairo....

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6 1/2 Years On, the U.S. Mission in Iraq has Only Just Begun

Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.23.2009 | World

Read More: Germany, Cairo, Ray Odierno, Middle East, Pakistan, Korea, Baghdad, Iraq, Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Japan, War on Terror, War in Afghanistan, War in Iraq, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, War Wire, World News
Rahim Kanani

There seems to be a colossal disconnect between the rhetoric and reality of the Obama Administration's strategy to withdraw troop levels in Iraq from 120,000 down to 50,000 by August 2010.

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Iran, Israel attend secret nuclear meet in Cairo

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home

Read More: Tehran-Iran, Iran, Cairo, Islamic Republic of Iran, Israel, Home News

Israeli and Iranian representatives recently took part in a conference in Cairo on nuclear non-proliferation in the Middle East, the Israel Atomic Ene...

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New Books On Hamas: Government Or Terrorist Organization?

The New York Review of Books | Nicolas Pelham and Max Rodenbeck | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Palestine, Islam, Gaza, Books, Nyr, Hamas, New York Review of Books, Yasser Arafat, Khalid Mishal, Cairo, Middle East, New York Review, Camp David, Israel, Books News

Which Way for Hamas? Nicolas Pelham and Max Rodenbeck The New York Review of Books Inside Hamas: The Untold Story of the Militant Islamic Movement b...

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WATCH: Hamas confirms plans to join Fatah for talks in Cairo

Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home

Read More: Cairo, Home News

Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal has confirmed that the Islamist group will send a delegation to Cairo to take part in reconciliation negotiations...

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Alfred Nobel's Last Will And Testament: He'd Be Proud Of President Obama's Peace Efforts

Jackson Williams | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Iran, Cairo, Afghanistan, Nobel Peace Prize, Alfred Nobel, Iraq, Kim Jong Il, Barack Obama, North Korea, George Bush, Nobel Prize, Politics News
Jackson Williams

Some critics have claimed the prize should be the "culmination of a career." Says who? Not Alfred Nobel, and he ought to know.

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Why Obama Doesn't Deserve the Nobel Peace Prize, Or the Olympics Rap

William Bradley | Posted 10.09.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Palestine, Afghanistan, Woodrow Wilson, Iran, Tony Blair, London, Teddy Roosevelt, Tokyo, Madrid, Barack Obama, Nobel Peace Prize, Rio De Janeiro, Chicago, Al Gore, Olympic Games, Iraq, Israel, China, Cairo, Copenhagen, World News
William Bradley

Just as I never thought that Obama would win the Olympics for Chicago, it never occurred to me that he would win the Nobel Peace Prize this year.

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The Possibility Of A Nuclear Iran Alarms Arabs

nytimes.com | MICHAEL SLACKMAN | Posted 12.01.2009 | World

Read More: Persian Gulf, Iran, Iran Nuclear Facilities, Nuclear Iran, Cairo, Obama Iran, Iran Nuclear, Iran Nuclear Policy, Barack Obama Iran, Iran Nuclear Program, Arab Iran, Iran Nuclear Weapons, World News

CAIRO �" As the West raises the pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, Arab governments, especially the small, oil-rich nations in the Persian G...

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LAX: Two Men Removed From New York-Bound Flight In Los Angeles

Reuters | Posted 11.28.2009 | New York

Read More: False Alarm, Suspicious Behavior, Cairo, Lax, United Airlines, Fbi, Los Angeles, New York, New York News

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- Authorities removed two men from a United Airlines flight at Los Angeles International Airport for suspicious behavior on Mon...

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Egyptian Divorcées, Girls Only, Burst Onto Web Radio Scene

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 11.21.2009 | World

Read More: Assafir, Arab World, DivorcéEs, Egypt, Robert De Niro, Tchaikovsky, Hussein Fahmy, Al Pacino, Brian Adams, Sting, Amani El Tunsi, Webcasts, Lebanon, Mahasen Saber, Arabic, Koran, Ed Harris, Moslem, Asharq Al-Awsat, Cairo, Blogposts, Banat W’ Basssss, Omar Sharif, Ayza Atala Wa, Jack Nicholson, Motalakat Radio, World News
Magda Abu-Fadil

Motalakat is an online radio station launched by Mahasen Saber, a thirty-something Egyptian divorcée and mother for other Egyptian women.

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A Female Perspective on Ramadan in Cairo

Annelle Sheline | Posted 11.17.2009 | World

Read More: Islam, Cairo, Hijab, Eid, Woman, Oman, Female, Ramadan, Iftar, World News
Annelle Sheline

I was eager to experience Ramadan in Egypt. I would attempt to fast, but wondered how the experience would feel without the closeness of a family.

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9/11 + 8: Where We've Been, Where We're Going

William Bradley | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Russia, Abdullah Abdullah, Britain, Turkey, France, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mossad, Iran, Hamid Karzai, Osama Bin Laden, Ahmad Shah Massoud, Cairo, Barack Obama, Germany, Egypt, Al Qaeda, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Northern Alliance, Tehran, Iraq, Israel, Donald Rumsfeld, 9/11, Torture, Video, World News
William Bradley

Eight years since 9/11. It feels like 18 years, if not 80. So much has changed since then, yet so much is still the same.

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Look Who's Coming To Dinner

David A. Harris | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cairo, Michael Oren, National Jewish Democratic Council, Israel, Democrats, Obama Cairo Speech, Barack Obama, Ramadan, Politics News
David A. Harris

Wait -- Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, is coming to the Ramadan dinner hosted tonight by President Barack Obama?

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