US Election Watch
CHICAGO: The United States has a different face.Having glimpsed the victims of Katrina, the jailers of Abu Ghraib and the failed financiers of Wall Street, the world can see the…
United States' promising policy towards Iran
AMMAN: The Bush administration will establish the first official US diplomatic presence in Tehran before it leaves office, according to reports published last week.A US interests section in the Iranian…
The right to equality, then and now
LONDON: Following weeks of financial and economic turmoil, public debate has finally turned to the horrific potential human ramifications of the collapse of the global financial system. Comparisons and contrasts…
Barack Obama and American power
CAMBRIDGE: One of the first challenges that President Barack Obama will face is the effects of the ongoing financial crisis, which has called into question the future of American power.…
Life and literature at Café Riche
What if you could visit the home of Naguib Mahfouz, Om Kolthoum, Taha Hussein and Youssef Idris all at once? Café Riche provides the converging stop where you can pay…
This country has a government…sort of!
Aren't the Americans lucky with their shiny new president? He's going to give them change. And then some more change. And then even more change! Like a canned drinks machine…
Wolgang Haffner wows Alexandria
It seems jazz concerts in Egypt are like buses, you wait an age for one and then they all come at once. Those lucky enough to be present in the…
A man, a woman and a pantomimist
Cairo Atelier, one of the older exhibition spaces tucked away on a side-street in the middle of downtown's assortment of galleries, is currently holding a potentially perfect show titled "Sending…
Egypt's credit future 'Stable,' says Moody's
CAIRO: Moody s rated the credit future outlook of Egyptian banks as "Stable in a report released Wednesday, even though risks are on the downside, it said.Satiated with excess liquidity,…
