Egypt

My Conversation with Naguib Sawiris

Charlie Rose | Posted 07.03.2008 | Business

Read More: Egypt, Charlie Rose, Africa, Middle East, Mobile, Cellphone, Naguib Sawiris, Asia, Technology, Orascom, Business News
Charlie Rose

I talked with Egyptian billionaire and telecom tycoon Naguib Sawiris recently. He's Chairman and CEO of Orascom Telecom Holding, one of the biggest ...

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Israel's Diplomatic "JewJitsu"

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 06.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Iran, Sarkozy, Oil Exports, Olmert, Israel, Lebanon, Middle East Peace, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Hezbollah, Hamas, Iraq., Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Israel has secretly accomplished more diplomatically in the past few months with its adversaries than anything that Condi Rice could have or would have brokered in years.

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Egyptian Brokered "Truce" Undermines Peace And Strengthens Hamas

Ray Hanania | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, Israelis, Truce, Ehud Olmert, Palestinians, Gilad Shalit, Politics News
Ray Hanania

Many assert that the recent Egyptian-brokered "truce" between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip might open the door to a new peace initiative, but ju...

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Cease-fire: No Small Thing

MJ Rosenberg | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, Israel, Gaza, Hamas, Middle East, Palestinians, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Israel-Palestine, Cease Fire, Politics News
MJ Rosenberg

Cease-fire or no cease-fire, neither side is turning its swords into plowshares. Nonetheless, the truce between Hamas and Israel is a very good thing.

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McCain at AIPAC Offers Americans and Israelis the Same Gloomy, Insecure, Hope-Free Future

Daniel Levy | Posted 06.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Egypt, McCain Middle East, McCain Israel, Iran, John McCain Hagee, Joe Lieberman and John McCain, McCain Iraq, Al Qaeda, Aipac, John Hagee, Middle East, Mccain Aipac, Joe Lieberman, Israel, McCain Iran, Lieberman Hagee, Politics News
Daniel Levy

That most of the crowd loved McCain's speech is a sad reflection on AIPAC, and that it is reaping what it has sown in moving so aggressively to the right in recent years.

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Ancient Egyptian Fortress Discovered In The Sinai

AP | MAAMOUN YOUSSEF | Posted 05.28.2008 | Home

Read More: Egypt, Sinai, Egyptian City, Ancient Egyptian City, Ancient Egyptian Fortress, Home News

CAIRO, Egypt — Archaeologists exploring an old military road in the Sinai have unearthed 3,000-year-old remains from an ancient fortified city, ...

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Israel at 60: A Gift That Keeps on Giving

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 05.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Egypt, The Middle East, Iran, Clinton, Ehud Olmert, Pakistan, Condoleeza Rice, Israel, Palestine, Iraq, Obama, Hezbollah, Hamas, Annapolis Summit, Palestinians, Road Map, Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Israel deserves and has earned America's continued support, but here again, it, too, must take into account broader American concerns about the future of a stable Middle East.

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America: A Moral Leader?

Rev. Jesse Jackson | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Drought, World Food Crisis, Ethiopia, World Hunger, Egypt, World Bank, Food Crisis, Food Aid, Haiti, Politics News
Rev. Jesse Jackson

The world food crisis - the "silent tsunami" - now threatens some 100 million people across the world. The danger is real and present.

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Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? Morgan Spurlock Shows the Simple Truth: We're in Some Serious Doo-Doo But There's Hope Yet

Logan Nakyanzi Pollard | Posted 04.18.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Egypt, Jordan, Super Size Me, Democracy Filmmaker, Morocco, Morgan Spurlock, Terrorism, War, Alex Gibney, Palestine, Wall Street Journal, Peace, Taxi to the Dark Side, Religion, Gaza, Wwf, Arab, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, Danny Pearl, Oil, New York Times, Israel, Afghanistan, A.O. Scott, Clergy US Intervention, Masturbate, Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?, Dilawar, Entertainment News
Logan Nakyanzi Pollard

Spurlock's film shows how regular people can ferret out simple truths, when our leaders fail to make the effort.

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Carter's Hamas Hallucination

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Palestinian Authority, Syria, Egypt, Mahmoud Abbas, Iran, West Bank, Islamic Radicalism, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Hezbollah, Hamas, Arab World, Carter Egypt, Jimmy Carter Israel, Camp David Peace Accords, Jimmy Carter Hamas, Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

In 1996 I urged Carter to understand that he could make his peace with America's Jews and Israel by having a deeper appreciation of the resentment he engenders when his advocacy on behalf of the Palestinian people seems to be at Israel's expense.

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Carter: Shunned by Israel, Hamas' Hero

Jamal Dajani | Posted 04.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, Syria, Mahmoud Abbas, Gaza, Mosaic Intelligence Report, PLO, Jimmy Carter, Israel, Palestine, Jamal Dajani, Hamas, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

Shunned by Israeli political leaders, former US president Jimmy Carter met with a Hamas representative in the West Bank and says he will go ahead with...

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Jimmy Carter Speaks for Me

Robert Naiman | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, Israel, Jimmy Carter, Hamas, Bush Administration, Politics News
Robert Naiman

I don't feel the least bit sorry for Jimmy Carter, who, predictably, is being pilloried for his plans to meet the exiled leader of Hamas, Khaled Mesha...

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Egypt Grants Bonuses After Deadly Food Riots

AP | MAGGIE MICHAEL | Posted 04.08.2008 | Business

Read More: Nile Delta Factory, Egypt, Food Riots, Global Inflation, Egypt Unrest, Egypt Riots, United Nations, Business News

MAHALLA EL-KOBRA, Egypt — Egypt rushed Tuesday to grant bonuses to workers after two days of deadly riots over high food prices and low wages wr...

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Cashing in on the War on Terror

William Fisher | Posted 04.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Eisenhower, Egypt, Military Aid, Human Rights, Indonesia, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, War on Terrorism, Rendition, Department of Defense, David Petraeus, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Defense, Petraeus, Ryan Crocker, General Petraeus, Petraeus Iraq, Crocker, Politics News
William Fisher

On the day Petraeus and Crocker testify before Congress on Iraq, the ghost of Dwight D. Eisenhower will be hovering in the wings. And he won't be smiling.

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A "Failed" Strike in Egypt and Mubarak's Enduring Image

Freddy Deknatel | Posted 04.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Factory, Video, Muslim Brotherhood, General Strike, Egypt, Cairo, Protests, Hosni Mubarak, Egypt Emergency Laws, Mahalla Al-Kobra, Politics News
Freddy Deknatel

April 6th in Egypt will be remembered as the day that a nationwide general strike was suppressed by the state. It may also be remembered as the day that Egypt began resembling Palestine.

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In Egypt, Where Everything Can be Yogurt, Bread is Getting Too Expensive

Freddy Deknatel | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, Egyptian Jokes, Hosni Mubarak, World Food Crisis, Bread, Cairo, Politics News
Freddy Deknatel

Look no further than Egypt, where a loaf of bread sells for less that one cent, to take stock of rising world food prices and the extent of a looming global economic crisis.

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Condi's Middle East Mirage

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 04.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, George Bush, Gaza, West Bank, Arab League, Israel, Palestine, Hamas, Condi Rice, Dick Cheney, Arab-Israeli Conflict, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Annapolis, Rice Middle East, Bush Administration Middle East, Palestinian Authority, Annapolis Peace Conference, Condoleezza Rice, Middle East Diplomacy, Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

Rice is putting the finishing touches on a legacy that will add yet one more failure to her excruciating and unending list of diplomatic disasters in the region.

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Selling Democracy - De Lux Model with Double-Standards Built In

William Fisher | Posted 03.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Cold War, Middle East, Democracy Promotion, Public Diplomacy, Egypt, War on Terror, Foreign Policy, Politics News
William Fisher

The news went largely unreported, so you may have missed it, but last week the editor of a newspaper in Cairo was sentenced to six months in prison fo...

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A Monumental Challenge to America

Alon Ben-Meir | Posted 02.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Damascus, Lebanon, Kurds, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Hezbollah, Iran, Taliban, Shiites, Al Qaeda, Hamas Gaza, Muslim Brotherhood, Middle East, Egypt, Camp David, Israel Syria, Iraq, Israel, Sunnis, Syria, Politics News
Alon Ben-Meir

Mr. Bush's Middle East adventures underscore the enormity of his foreign policy failures, from which it may take America years to recover.

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Gazans Breach Egyptian Border Again

AP | SARAH EL DEEB | Posted 01.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Gaza, Egypt, Gaza Border, Gaza-Egypt Border, Hamas, Gaza Strip, Gaza Wall, Home News

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Hamas-backed militants driving bulldozers knocked down more fortifications Friday along the Gaza-Egypt border _ a brazen cha...

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Gazans Flood Egypt After Border Breach

AP | IBRAHIM BARZAK | Posted 01.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Gaza Escape, Gaza Wall, Israel and Palestinian Conflict, Israel and Palestinians, Palestinian, Hamas, Egypt, Palestinian Militants, Politics News

RAFAH, Gaza Strip — On foot, in cars and in donkey carts, tens of thousands of Gazans flooded into Egypt on Wednesday through a border fence blo...

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"I Have a Mirage!" Bush Declares to the Arab World

Amb. Marc Ginsberg | Posted 01.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Jordan, Egypt, White House, The Middle East, Morocco, Condoleeza Rice, King Abdullah, Bush, United Arab Emirates, Primaries, Presidential Campaign, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Ayman Nour, Rice, Mubarak, Bush Freedom Agenda, Bush Saudi Arabia, Bush Mideast Trip, Politics News
Amb. Marc Ginsberg

It's taken a terribly long time for Rice -- no Mid-East expert either before, during, or after her 7th year in this administration -- to understand that "elections" do not constitute "democracy."

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Egypt Threatens To "Retaliate" Against Israel

New York Sun | Posted 01.02.2008 | Politics

Read More: Egypt, Israel, Warwire, Egypt Israel Tensions, Politics News

As diplomatic tensions between Egypt and Israel escalated yesterday, Jerusalem struggled to find the delicate balance between applying pressure to get...

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Sarkozy Holidays In Egypt With New Girlfriend

AP | NASSER NASSER | Posted 12.25.2007 | Politics

Read More: Sarkozy Divorce, Egypt, Sarkozy Girlfriend, French President Sarkozy, Nicolas Sarkozy, Politics News

French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his model-turned-singer girlfriend, Carla Bruni, arrived holding hands in Luxor Tuesday, kicking off a private vi...

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Lebanon is a Good Example of Removing the Impression of Suspicious Deals from the Bush Administration

Raghida Dergham | Posted 12.22.2007 | Politics

Read More: Russia, Palestine, Annapolis Peace Conference, Lebanon, Jordan, Condoleezza Rice, Egypt, France, Ban Ki-Moon, United Nations, Damascus Conference, European Union, Italy, Iran, Taliban, Syria, Nicolas Sarkozy, Politics News
Raghida Dergham

The US has become interested once again in a leading role regarding Lebanon to correct the errors that have hurt the model of democracy, the reputation of the US and Bush himself.

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