WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama won lavish praise from his Egyptian counterpart on Tuesday and spoke of an "extraordinary opportunity" for m...
John L. Esposito | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics
If Obama doesn't deliver significantly, disillusionment and anti-Americanism will increase among the very people who were euphoric at his election.
Eric Margolis | Posted 07.17.2009 | World
The White House's recent actions contradict many of the new president's promises.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
Promotion of literacy for girls is a noble cause. But unless sharia laws are repealed, more girls will find themselves in flogging pens rather than rising up the career ladder.
Stephen Zunes | Posted 07.11.2009 | World
Obama was apparently unwilling to take advantage of his highly publicized visits with the leaders of Egypt and Saudi Arabia to break with his predecessors' coddling of these tyrannical regimes.
Mohamed Elshahed | Posted 07.10.2009 | Eyes & Ears
President Obama's speech was well-received on the Egyptian street, but retracing the President's path through "the timeless city of Cairo" quickly reveals that change will be hard to come by.
Anis Shivani | Posted 07.09.2009 | World
The very idea of a speech addressed to more than a billion diverse people, with different grievances against America, seems ludicrous. My advisers ha...
Jerusalem Post | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
A day after US President Barack Obama reiterated his call to stop settlement activity during a speech in Cairo, defiant settlers continued to erect il...
Wael Nawara | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
Obama's speech may serve as the preamble of an informal collective contract in which each party, Arabs, Israelis and Americans must play its role and honor its commitments and obligations.
AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 07.06.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israel will not heed President Barack Obama's powerful appeal to halt all settlement activity on lands the Palestinians claim for a ...
Erik Ose | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
It was one year ago today that Hillary Clinton announced plans to suspend her campaign for the Democratic nomination, and urged her supporters to unite behind Barack Obama.
Greg Barrett | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
Can you imagine President Bush delivering a speech to Muslims and quoting seamlessly from the Bible, the Quran and the Talmud? Any reconciliatory word...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
Obama's speech to the so-called Muslim World, held today at Cairo University, is being talked about in cafes and living rooms across the world. The co...
MSNBC | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics
The pyramids outside of Cairo boast tombs, camels and relics thousands of years old. What about an image reminiscent of the 44th president? ...
Huffington Post | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
During his stay in Cairo, Egypt, where he gave his longest and arguably most anticipated speech yet, President Obama indulged in some tourism, visitin...
Shirin Sadeghi | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
Obama's inevitable message to the Muslim world: the U.S. will look the other way at your governments' repressive policies because a working relationship with them is more important than peoples' rights.
AP | STEVEN GUTKIN | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
JERUSALEM — Israel said it hoped President Barack Obama's speech to the Muslim world Thursday would help usher in a "new period of reconciliatio...
Huffington Post/AP | Stuart Whatley | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
UPDATE: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has now issued a statement following Obama's Thursday speech. From Jerusalem Post: "The g...
Peter Daou | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
I know many will gush over President Obama's Cairo speech and I'm likely swimming against the tide of the media and my fellow Democrats and progressives.
Posted 07.05.2009 | World
Below, the full text of President Obama's speech in Cairo, Egypt, titled "A New Beginning." Watch video: * * * * I am honored to be in...
AP | JENNIFER LOVEN | Posted 07.05.2009 | World
CAIRO — Invoking the Quran and his rarely used middle name, Barack Hussein Obama declared Thursday that America has a common cause with Islam an...
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 ...
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.
AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 09.18.2009 | World