‘Displaced’ in Ard El-Lewa
By Tom Dale “Ard El-Lewa no good” asserts my taxi driver grumpily, as I give him directions to the gallery. “Bad area.” In fact, there is nothing bad about it, though…
To all modern day Pharaohs out there
By Dina Mohamed Basiony “Go, both of you, to Pharaoh, for he has indeed transgressed all bounds; But speak to him mildly; perchance he may take heed of the reminder or…
Who should lead the World Bank?
By Devesh Kapur and Arvind Subramanian WASHINGTON, DC: Robert Zoellick will depart in June as President of the World Bank, once again raising the thorny issue of leadership of the Bretton…
Germany’s sunshine daydream
By Bjørn Lomborg COPENHAGEN: One of the world’s biggest green-energy public-policy experiments is coming to a bitter end in Germany, with important lessons for policymakers elsewhere. Germany once prided itself on…
Rattling the Renminbi
By Yu Yongding BEIJING: From July 2005 until this past December, China’s renminbi (RMB) appreciated steadily. But then the RMB fell unexpectedly, hitting the bottom of the daily trading band set…
Mission Impossible?
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: John McCain, war hero, legendry upholder of freedom and justice — your mission senator, should you decide to accept it, is to rescue Egypt from a venomous…
The Maghreb’s modern Islamists
By Moha Ennaji FEZ: Just over a year ago, the Arab Spring sparked dramatic change throughout the Arab world. Popular movements have brought a range of avowedly Islamist political parties to…
The Iranian nuclear threat goes global
TEL AVIV: The current drive to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear arsenal reflects two important, and interrelated, changes. From Israel’s perspective, these changes are to be welcomed, though its…
State-mosque relations in Europe, the other half of the story
CHESTNUT HILL, Massachusetts: Just over 1 percent of the world’s 1.5 billion Muslims reside in Western Europe, yet this minority has had a disproportionate impact on religion and politics in…
US lacks a champion in the new Egypt
By Bradley Klapper / AP WASHINGTON: The US is losing old friends and can't win new ones in the new Egypt. Trying to secure a way home for seven American democracy…