Decoding Egypt: On New Ideas and Change
My last article quoted a statement made by the English writer Arthur Clarke that goes as follows: "new ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It…
Turkey's Missed Opportunity
YEREVAN: Turkey, sadly, seems to be falling into the bad habit of never missing an opportunity to miss an opportunity in its relations with Armenia. But this failure of will…
Algerian feminists going strong
PARIS: Those who think that Algerians have been passive victims of their country s political problems need look no further than the Algerian women s movement for a change of…
Water Wars
NEW YORK: Many conflicts are caused or inflamed by water scarcity. The conflicts from Chad to Darfur, Sudan, to the Ogaden Desert in Ethiopia, to Somalia and its pirates, and…
Real Estate Tax Authority form Egypt's 1st independent union
CAIRO: Fourteen months after they forced the government into responding to their demands for better pay, real estate tax collectors have formed Egypt's first independent trade union since 1957."I feel…
Lawyers ask Italian court to throw out CIA case
MILAN: Lawyers for 26 Americans and seven Italians on trial for the alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian terror suspect asked a Milan court on Wednesday to throw out the…
Russian teen's body found after Sinai death plunge
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Egyptian police and Bedouin trackers ended a six-day search for a Russian teenager around a religious site in Sinai on Tuesday after his body was found in a…
Tantawy rejects family planning laws
CAIRO: Al-Azhar Grand Sheikh Mohamed Sayed Tantawy denounced family planning laws that limit the number of children per household, but added that parents must be able to fully provide for…