Israel’s choice vis-à-vis Palestine’s bid for statehood
By Jerome Segal COLLEGE PARK, Maryland: Having despaired of productive negotiations with the Netanyahu government and having lost confidence in the Obama administration, the Palestinians are expected to seek recognition of…
Reset Turkey/EU Relations
By Javier Solana MADRID: Just five months ago, Osama bin Laden was alive, Hosni Mubarak was firmly in control in Egypt, and Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali ruled Tunisia with an iron…
Are Saudi women next?
By Mai Yamani LONDON: The unexpected visibility and assertiveness of women in the revolutions unfolding across the Arab world — in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Syria, and elsewhere — has…
The ASEAN Heart of Asia
By Sirin Pitsuwan JAKARTA: The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) stands at a defining moment. Its member states are constantly being evaluated for their economic potential and desirability as a…
Does anything matter?
By Peter Singer OXFORD: Can moral judgments be true or false? Or is ethics, at bottom, a purely subjective matter, for individuals to choose, or perhaps relative to the culture of…
Author Terry Pratchett defends right-to-die film
Writer Terry Pratchett said Tuesday that watching a man being helped to die had reaffirmed his support for assisted suicide, while anti-euthanasia groups criticized the televised death as propaganda that…
Egypt police seize arms cache near Gaza, arrest 4
By AP EL-ARISH: An Egyptian official says police have seized a large weapons cache in a coastal city near the Gaza Strip and have arrested three Palestinians and one Egyptian…
Education reform: A generation in waiting
By Sally Jeffery, Duncan Lampard and Jumana Salti Significant and growing numbers of young people across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are being inadequately educated and are emerging from…
EFG-Hermes says Q1 profit nearly wiped out
CAIRO: EFG-Hermes, Egypt's biggest investment bank, said first-quarter net profit slumped 93 percent due to political turmoil and an exceptional capital gain having boosted figures in the same period last…
Tourist visits to Egypt falls 36 pct in April
CAIRO: The number of tourists visiting Egypt in April fell 35.7 percent from a year earlier, and the number of nights they spent fell even more, the state CAPMAS statistics…