Sadat and Annapolis
Is there a statute of limitations for saying I told you so ? And can the dead say it? I can imagine the late Egyptian president Anwar Sadat whispering those…
Where is Jewish support for Annapolis?
WASHINGTON: The call for American Jewish organizations to support the current peace efforts came from an unexpected direction: Israel s Chief Rabbi Yonah Metzger. For years closely associated with the…
Déjà-vu in the Middle East
Does history repeat itself, after all? Recent developments in the Middle East suggest that the answer is "yes, because the situation at the end of President George W. Bush's tenure…
WITH A GRAIN OF SALT: Long live a free Egypt
This week marked the anniversary of an event of great significance: the release of one of the most important literary works in our modern history, Naguib Mahfouz's "Trilogy comprising "Palace…
Hamas's ghost in Annapolis
America's return to the Israeli-Palestinian diplomatic front is a welcome development. One surely that EU diplomacy has sought to bring about. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's efforts to push the…
Turkey's foreign policy tug of war
Istanbul - Turkey has recently ratcheted up pressure on US and Iraqi authorities to end the presence of the violent separatist group, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), in northern Iraq.…
Give Iraqi children their childhood
International Children s Day will be celebrated throughout the world on the 20th of November. The United Nations marks this day as a day of worldwide fraternity and understanding between…
Make jokes, not war
I enter a room backstage to meet the Axis of Evil boys for my interview, and I hear Maz Jobrani asking about the names of bridges and streets in Cairo.…
Time for chaos
Set for release just weeks after a landmark Egyptian court verdict sentenced two police officers to three-year prison terms for torture, Youssef Chahine's comeback film "Heya Fawda (Is it Chaos?)…
