Obama's Lincolnesque Nobel Peace Prize
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.
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.
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 11.23.2009 | Home
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 ...
WorldFocus.org | WorldFocus.org | Posted 11.20.2009 | Home
Angry football fans converge on the Algerian embassy in Cairo. Photo: madmonk Hoda Osman, a special correspondent for Worldfocus and an Egyp...
The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.18.2009 | Home
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...
The Independent | Independent | Posted 11.17.2009 | Home
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...
AP | MARILYNN MARCHIONE | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
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...
Posted 11.13.2009 | Sports
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 ...
Sharmine Narwani | Posted 11.09.2009 | World
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.
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.24.2009 | Home
At least 15 people killed when two trains collide southwest of Cairo....
Al Jazeera. | Al Jazeera | Posted 10.24.2009 | Home
At least 14 people killed when two trains collide southwest of Cairo....
Rahim Kanani | Posted 10.23.2009 | World
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.
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
Israeli and Iranian representatives recently took part in a conference in Cairo on nuclear non-proliferation in the Middle East, the Israel Atomic Ene...
The New York Review of Books | Nicolas Pelham and Max Rodenbeck | Posted 10.22.2009 | Books
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...
Haaretz. | Haaretz | Posted 10.18.2009 | Home
Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal has confirmed that the Islamist group will send a delegation to Cairo to take part in reconciliation negotiations...
Jackson Williams | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics
Some critics have claimed the prize should be the "culmination of a career." Says who? Not Alfred Nobel, and he ought to know.
William Bradley | Posted 10.09.2009 | World
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.
nytimes.com | MICHAEL SLACKMAN | Posted 12.01.2009 | World
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...
Reuters | Posted 11.28.2009 | New York
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) -- Authorities removed two men from a United Airlines flight at Los Angeles International Airport for suspicious behavior on Mon...
Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 11.21.2009 | World
Motalakat is an online radio station launched by Mahasen Saber, a thirty-something Egyptian divorcée and mother for other Egyptian women.
Annelle Sheline | Posted 11.17.2009 | World
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.
William Bradley | Posted 11.11.2009 | World
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.
David A. Harris | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics
Wait -- Israel's Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, is coming to the Ramadan dinner hosted tonight by President Barack Obama?
William Bradley | Posted 12.11.2009 | World