2006 belonged to Al Ahly
CAIRO: The stars of Cairo football club Al-Ahly conquered Africa twice this year to emerge as continental kings. Last February, an Ahly-dominated Egypt team won the African Nations Cup a…
The Chinese are coming . and soon we'll understand them
CAIRO: The latest local addition to what the Chinese Xinhua news service calls China fever, will be the opening of an Egyptian-Chinese university as well as the Middle East s…
The reality show of George W. Bush's struggle
Watching US President George W. Bush in recent weeks has become a grim kind of reality TV show. In almost every news conference, speech and photo opportunity, the topic is…
Only renewed multilateralism can save America
The realization in the United States that the war in Iraq has been lost is perhaps the most momentous fact of international politics in 2006. The time of American unilateralism…
Fouad Ajami, or the dangers of the foreigner's gift
Coincidentally, I was reading Fouad Ajami's new book, "The Foreigner's Gift: the Americans, the Arabs and the Iraqis in Iraq, at the very moment when Iraq seemed to be turning…
2006, the year that was in film
Cairo: It s always daunting to compile an end-of-year best films list because most of the noteworthy productions we watch each year are not shown commercially to the general public.…
'Inward testimony' – a writer's witness account of world conflict
As the post 9-11 world becomes a single stage for international conflict, Nadine Gordimer asks: "What place, task, meaning will literature have in witnessing disasters without precedence? During her speech…
