Egypt to participate in India's petroleum, natural gas conference
Egypt's Ministry of Petroleum agreed to participate in the international conference on petroleum and natural gas to be held in India this coming November. Egyptian Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy…
Government plans measures to prevent another fertilizer shortage
CAIRO: A long-term plan to reform the agriculture sector and solve the prevailing shortage of fertilizers is currently in the works, the government announced on Sunday.Following a ministerial meeting in…
Egypt to expand economic ties with France
CAIRO: Following an official visit to France last week, Egypt has announced it will foster economic ties with the European country through new agreements in a variety of business sectors.…
Humanitarian crises caught on camera
Sudanese refugees fleeing to Chad, in the middle of a sandstorm; a twice-displaced Iranian Kurdish girl hiding her face in her hands and crying as she recounts the kidnapping of…
Special Forces to the rescue?
Londoners don't seem that interested in the war anymore. Hundreds of thousands of anti-war demonstrators marched past Big Ben in February 2003, but now when I mention Iraq to my…
Muslim Literary Voices Call for Redemption
Several Islamic blogs have recently started a discussion over means to combat the "pornographic imagination in Arab literary works through the spread of what has been labeled the Islamic novel.This…
India in Africa
China's increasing influence in Africa has attracted great attention in recent years. But Asia's other rising power, India, is also becoming more active on this front, as its economic links…
Iraq: The way out
As Congress debates when and how to withdraw American troops from Iraq, the most critical question for every single member to answer is: What sort of Iraq will the United…
The PLO: A Jordanian perspective
In 1974, the late King Hussein s pleas to Arab leaders to preserve the unity of the two banks of the Jordan and to give Jordanian diplomacy a chance to…
America's Day of Reckoning
The pessimists who have long forecasted that America's economy was in for trouble finally seem to be coming into their own. Of course, there is no glee in seeing stock…