International community sends mixed signals on Egypt
CAIRO: The international community is giving mixed responses to the mass protests in Egypt which are well into their third week. Over the years many countries have supported the rule…
Stocks fall, rouble jumps as Egypt weighs
LONDON: Emerging stocks plumbed a 2-1/2 month low on Friday as the political stalemate in Egypt weakened investors' appetite for risk, while resulting higher oil prices lifted the rouble to…
Thousands joined Presidential Palace, Maspero protests Friday
By Marwa Al-A'asar CAIRO: Thousands flocked to the Presidential Palace in Heliopolis on Friday morning to join other protesters that had camped out there the night before. A few hundred…
Fury in Egypt as Mubarak clings to power
CAIRO: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak wrong-footed global expectations Thursday by refusing to quit office, prompting furious demonstrators in Cairo to vow their most spectacular protests yet. On the 17th day…
Mubarak delegates authority to VP, vows to live and die in Egypt
By Rania Al-Malky and Sarah El Sirgany CAIRO: In a highly anticipated speech that left many disappointed, President Hosni Mubarak said that he will delegate presidential authority to Egypt’s Vice President…
Invest in Egypt
By Wael Z Orban We have been hearing a lot of rhetoric about the economic damage that hit Egypt amid the ongoing people- fight of freedom. You are right, there is…
The poverty of dictatorship
By Dani Rodrik CAMBRIDGE: Perhaps the most striking finding in the United Nations’ recent 20th anniversary Human Development Report is the outstanding performance of the Muslim countries of the Middle East…
US must understand the constructive role of faith in Egypt
By Dalia Mogahed ABU DHABI: During my visit to Cairo last month, I witnessed an incident that today seems almost prophetic. At one of Cairo's posh coffee shops, I saw a…
Why Egypt should worry China
By Barry Eichengreen BERKELEY: A strictly economic interpretation of events in Tunisia and Egypt would be too simplistic — however tempting such an exercise is for an economist. That said, there…
The Egyptian endgame
By Robert Tignor PRINCETON: Can Egypt’s long history help us to understand the uprising, already labeled a revolution, now underway in Cairo, and how it might turn out? I believe so.…