Research proves that manufacturing refuse cleans polluted water
CAIRO: Environmental pollution is a global epidemic, and it tops the list of Egypt s concerns. Textile, paper and pharmaceutical factories create waste product residues that exacerbate the problem.If left…
Harsh security measures fail to deter Sudanese bound for Israel
EL-ARISH: Darfur refugee Adam Abdel Karim, 31, became the latest casualty from the rising tide of those seeking to enter Israel illegally after being shot by increasingly vigilant Egyptian border…
Textile factory workers admit poor production quality, reiterate demands
MAHALLA Al KOBRA/CAIRO: Healthcare tops the list of demands put forward by the Ghazl El Mahalla textile factory workers. While they wait for the fulfillment of salary raise promises, the…
Toward a US diplomatic firewall strategy in Iraq
The Bush administration is groping toward a diplomatic firewall strategy that might help keep the inferno in Iraq from spreading in the Middle East. This approach has two basic components:…
Iraq is much more than just an American problem
Many people around the world are indulging in what the Germans call "schadenfreude : pleasure at the suffering of others. The pleasure appears to be derived from the suffering the…
China's industrial mess, and what the West can do about it
The Western media have a habit of going on feeding frenzies. Ironically, when it comes to China, the latest frenzy concerns food itself. The execution two weeks ago of the…
Turkey's Choice
In what may be Turkey's most important political event since the republic was founded in the 1920's, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has won a landslide parliamentary election victory,…
It may soon be too late for Lebanon
In the past two months, Lebanon has witnessed unprecedented levels of violence that threaten to mortally weaken what is left of the country's institutions and governance apparatus. The war that…
Haleh Esfandiari, or the evil of an often impressive Iran
Iran is at once impressive yet offensive. I want to embrace it, but it keeps pushing me away through its own misdeeds. Iran is widely demonized in the United States,…
