The State of our Union is frustrating
You could see it in Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's eyes, sitting atop the rostrum behind George W Bush as he gave this week's State of the Union…
Ben Ali's dictatorship is creating more Islamists
Tunisian President Zein al-Abedin ben Ali has on official occasions often referred to the legacy of the great Arab writer Ibn Khaldoun, born in Tunis in 1332. The last time…
Turkey is changing, despite Dink's murder
Less than a week before Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was assassinated, his compatriot Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, was made editor-in-chief for a day at…
If Iran is next, the United States is making a mistake
Can politics learn from history? Or is it subject to a fatal compulsion to repeat the same mistakes, despite the disastrous lessons of the past? President George W. Bush's new…
From home to home
JEZREEL VALLEY, Israel: When my grandfather was on his deathbed, began one of my Palestinian-Israeli students, he took the key from the house from which he was exiled in 1948…
Your definitive shopping guide at the Cairo International Book Fair
CAIRO: For the past 39 years, January in Cairo has always meant the following: nice weather; the mid-year vacation for students; and the Cairo International Book Fair.The 39th round of…
Goaaaaaaaal! Drogba shoots for UN development goals
NEW YORK: Côte d'Ivoire soccer star Didier Drogba, currently top scorer in the English Premiership and the European Champions League, has become the latest football great to shoot for the…
Enppi Follow in Zamalek's Dirty Footsteps
The announcement made by Enppi club that they promoted Hani Ramzi to replace head coach Rainer Zobel and demoting the German manager to take on a peripheral role only proves…
SPORTS TALK: Past and present
The recent news that the world s most celebrated boy king, Tutankhamen, used to play football only adds to the long list of evidence that our old, old forefathers not…