Saudi Arabia, Bahrain through to semifinals in Gulf Cup

ABU DHABI: Saudi Arabia and Bahrain clinched the remaining semifinal spots at the Gulf Cup on Wednesday.Saudi Arabia defeated Iraq 1-0 to top Group B, while Bahrain beat defending champion…

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Zamalek in mad scramble to reach African club summit

CAIRO: Zamalek will be one of the most prominent Arab teams in the 11-month climb to the summit of African club football beginning this weekend with a first round of…

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Flexing Egypt's research muscle

Program aims to get science and technology back on trackCAIRO: While the past decades have been marked by a gradual shrinking of Egypt's research and development muscle, a new program…

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France-based El Mohager to focus exclusively on Arab immigrants

Cairo: A new newspaper published by two émigrés of Egyptian descent is promising to bring to the fore issues of Arab immigration within the Middle East and Europe.El Mohager (The…

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Applaud one more tango in Paris

Sometimes we live in a hall of mirrors. The last time I saw burning tires on Lebanon's streets was in May 1992, when the incompetent government of Prime Minister Omar…

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We'll soon see if it's Mission Impossible for Petraeus

For a nation bitterly divided over Iraq, the one point of agreement seems to be that Lt. Gen. David Petraeus is the right commander for American forces in Baghdad. That…

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Religion and politics, an odd couple?

When the end of ideology was celebrated first in the 1950s and then, more emphatically still, in the 1990s no one foresaw that religion, the bane of politics in the…

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The Lebanese might repeat the past

I spent two days in Beirut in late 2002. And the tension I sensed simmering between people there even during this short stay has come to my recollection in light…

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