Daring to hope in Pakistan's Swat Valley
ANCHORAGE, Alaska: Often referred to as the "Switzerland of Pakistan , Swat…
Bahaa Taher returns with flying peacocks, domesticated dogs and a furtive palace
After an 11-year absence from the realm of short stories, Arabic Booker…
Egypt reports nine new H1N1 cases
CAIRO: Health Ministry official Mohamed Attah confirmed the discovery of nine cases…
Typhoid cases in Egypt reach 164
CAIRO: Typhoid cases in Qaliubiya reached 164 on Saturday in two of…
Religious pluralism in today's Muslim world
PHILADELPHIA: In his June 4 speech to the Muslim world from Cairo,…
Civil society unbound
MOSCOW: The challenges facing civil-society organizations are greater in Russia than in…
Fatah, West's hope for peace, faces critical test
RAMALLAH: Fatah, the divided movement of the late Yasser Arafat and the…
Fear: the underrated enabler
WASHINGTON, DC: In 1997, at a time when I travelled frequently from…
Egypt constructing a correction
CAIRO: The Egyptian government has long been chipping away at the country…
My plan to drop the bomb
NEW YORK: The destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 marked an…