Men essential to Lebanese women’s rights
By Ghida Anani and Lina Abi Rafeh BEIRUT: Uprisings espousing principles of democracy, participation and human rights have spread across the Arab world. Arab women have been both on the frontlines…
The Middle East’s new game
MADRID: Whether or not the Arab Spring will usher in credible democracies across the Arab world remains uncertain. But, while the dust has not yet settled after months of…
America’s locust years
By J. Bradford DeLong BERKELEY: It is hard right now to write about American political economy. Nobody knows whether the debt-ceiling tripwire will be evaded; if so, how; or what will…
Europe’s sovereignty crisis
By Joschka Fischer BERLIN: Finally, German Chancellor Angela Merkel has accepted a new form of European Union. More than ever, the EU must combine greater stability, financial transfers, and mutual solidarity…
US ‘confident’ Mubarak trial will be fair
WASHINGTON: The United States said Wednesday it is confident that the trial underway in Egypt of former strongman Hosni Mubarak will be fair and transparent. "We'll obviously follow the trial…
Palestinians moving ahead with UN bid: Erakat
DOHA: Palestinians are determined to go ahead with their UN membership bid as an Arab League follow-up committee endorsed a final draft of the request to be presented to the…
Mubarak: A Cautionary Tale II
By Rania Al Malky CAIRO: Under the scorching August sun on the third day of Ramadan, a couple of hundred protesters cheered as a helicopter flew over the New Cairo Police…
Tens injured in clashes between anti and pro Mubarak protestors
CAIRO: Fifty-three were injured during clashes between anti- and pro-Mubarak protesters outside the police academy in which the trial of the former president was held on Wednesday. Central Security Forces…
113 Tahrir protesters released from Abdeen prosecution
CAIRO: One hundred and thirteen Tahrir protesters detained after military police violently dispersed a sit-in on Aug. 1 were released from the Abdeen prosecutor Wednesday afternoon. A lawyer had told…
Tantawy to testify before court, say legal experts
CAIRO: Head of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) Field Marshal Hussein Tantawy should appear in court to testify in the case against former president Hosni Mubarak, legal…