Obama Cairo Speech (VIDEO): Calls For New Beginning, Gets Standing Ovation
Read the full transcript of the speech here, full video below... CAIRO - Quoting from the Quran for emphasis, President Barack Obama called for a "...
Read the full transcript of the speech here, full video below... CAIRO - Quoting from the Quran for emphasis, President Barack Obama called for a "...
Huffington Post Contributor | Hossam el-Hamalawy | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
Right before he took off from DC, on what the media has been depicting as some "odyssey," to address the Muslim World from Cairo, President Obama had ...
nytimes.com | ROGER COHEN | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
NEW YORK -- I hope President Obama has been reading James Baker in preparation for his speech Thursday to the Muslim world. It was in the time of the ...
Kamran Pasha | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
America will not advance our economic, educational and political stature. That is something only Muslims can and must do.
Huffington Post | Matthew Palevsky | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
President Obama is in Cairo, Egypt, to give his first speech in the Middle East on Thursday. One question has driven pre-speech debate: how will Obam...
Mirette F. Mabrouk | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
When Obama takes the podium at Cairo University, he's going to need to convince his listeners that he knows what they want -- they just need to give him a little time to deliver.
Huffington Post | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
Check out the Twitter module below to see the latest tweets from reporters traveling with President Obama on his Mideast trip, who have been using the...
AP/Huffington Post | MARK S. SMITH | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- In his latest push for an open dialogue with the Muslim world, President Barack Obama on Wednesday sought the counsel of King ...
arabist.net | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
Police have cracked down on the protest planned by Kefaya activists this evening in Tahrir Sq, detaining a number of activists... ...
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
Aides told us reporters traveling with Obama that the speech tomorrow in Cairo will last between 40 and 45 minutes. They also announced an unprecedented social networking blitz to engage the Muslim world.
McClatchy blog: Checkpoint Jerusalem | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
They are some of the most sought-after tickets in Cairo this week: Tickets for Obama's speech tomorrow at Cairo University....
Huffington Post | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
The Obama administration is offering a service to enable people to receive parts of the president's speech in Cairo as a text message on their cell ph...
Huffington Post Contributor | Noha Khattab | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
It's Wednesday afternoon, and I'm stuck in traffic on my way to an event at the American University in Cairo (AUC). While the drive from Zamalek to AU...
Omid Memarian | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
Egypt has the least favorable approval rating compared to other Arab countries in the Middle East, which begs the question: is Egypt the right place to address the Muslim World?
Huffington Post | Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
A driving question behind much of the anticipation for President Obama's Middle East trip is: how will he be received by the people? Naturally, the a...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.04.2009 | World
Reviews and reactions around the world to President Obama's Cairo University speech vary from being laudatory to disappointed to downright caustic, de...
nytimes.com | MICHAEL SLACKMAN | Posted 07.04.2009 | Home
CAIRO President Obama started his much anticipated Middle East tour on Wednesday in Saudi Arabia, where he is expected to press the Arab nations to o...
Faisal Ghori | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
No one in the Middle East, except for the government controlled media, is anticipating President Obama's speech in Cairo.
Annelle Sheline | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
While some American pundits anticipate this address to the Muslim world as the symbolic 'book-end' to Bush's 'Axis of Evil' speech, Egyptians remain skeptical.
The Huffington Post | Cara Parks | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
* Scroll down for a slideshow President Obama leaves tonight for his third major international trip, stopping first in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a recent...
Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 07.03.2009 | World
Unlike his predecessors, Obama appears no longer willing to engage in the vexing winking and nodding that has characterized American attitudes to Israeli settlement growth in the past.
China View | Wael Naguib, Muhammad Yamany | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
U.S. President Barack Obama's Cairo speech will give another push to the image of the United States, which has improved relatively in the whole world ...
Medea Benjamin | Posted 07.02.2009 | World
The issue that is really at the crux of the tensions with the United States is the intractable conflict between Israel and Palestine, and what many perceive as a one-sided U.S. policy in support of Israel.
Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 06.29.2009 | World
President Obama will travel to Cairo, Egypt, to give his first speech in the Middle East on June 4. This highly anticipated event has been billed as a...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 06.28.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — Gingerly trying to advance Mideast peace, President Barack Obama on Thursday challenged Israel to stop settlement construction in t...
AP/Huffington Post | Posted 07.05.2009 | World