Huge fire guts Maadi's Mogamaa El Ahram
CAIRO: Mogamaa El Ahram, a major commercial compound located in Maadi, was gutted after a fire broke out early morning yesterday. The fire tore through the mammoth structure made of…
What words can mean
MUMBAI: On July 11, 2006, terrorists blasted bombs on several suburban trains in Mumbai, the industrial and commercial capital of India. Over 200 commuters were killed while many more were…
Arab pluralism requires a free, contentious media
Today's Arab media is rife with paradox. Compared to only a decade ago, today's Arab world enjoys a dizzying variety of television stations, newspapers and internet sites. The news and…
Turkey beyond Islamism versus secularism
The tempestuous current developments in Turkey are historic in their implications for the country and the Middle East. However, they are about much more than a tug-of-war between Islamism and…
A potentially lethal blow to France's rigid socialists
France has chosen - and it has chosen decisively. The new French president is Nicolas Sarkozy, elected with 53.1 percent of the popular vote, with a turnout, at 84.8 percent,…
Unimpeachable reasons for impeachment
Let's get this meditation underway by first thinking of reasons NOT to impeach George W. Bush and Richard Cheney. I'll kick-start with the ones I've observed in circulation. (1) It's…
Sarkozy must reconcile France with itself
Is France about to exchange the fake revolution of May 1968 for a sham counter-revolution this year? Or have French voters given Nicolas Sarkozy a mandate for real change to…
We devote too much attention to a mostly stagnant Middle East
Why are Middle East experts so unfailingly wrong? The lesson of history is that men never learn from history, but Middle East experts, like the rest of us, should at…
