New Egyptian Austrian Business Council to push for bilateral economic relations
CAIRO: Representatives of Egypt and Austrian public and private sectors came together this week to celebrate the establishment of the Egyptian Austrian Business Council.The high profile event included speeches by…
Questioning reality but visualizing life
Does one truly have a distinct vision of what is real and what is an illusion?Love is the world's infinite mutability; Lies, hatred, murder even, are all knit up in…
US, European envoys hold key talks on reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace process
President Mubarak meets in Cairo with Palestinian leader Mahmoud AbbasAssociated PressArab leaders and top US, European and U.N. diplomats held key talks Wednesday in an attempt to revive the Arab-Israeli…
UN team due in Central Africa
Visits to Cairo and Khartoum to convince are to convince Sudan to acceptUNITED NATIONS: The United Nations said Tuesday it was sending a team to assess how to protect refugees…
Grasp whatever is left of the scattered hopes for peace
I lay in a hospital bed in Tel Aviv receiving treatment for a blood problem when the news from Beit Hanoun pierced the silence with its images and sounds of…
Now to overhaul all Middle East policy
Change is coming soon to American policy in the Middle East. The neoconservatives in Washington who defined American foreign policies in the past six years were down before the elections…
Europe is involved on Palestine, but so incoherently
Is there a European approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict? At first sight the answer is yes. The European Union Council of Foreign Ministers meets regularly and draws up declarations and…
Plainclothes, uniformed police suppress demonstration downtown
Activists had gathered to call for fight against sexual harassmentActivists from "The Street is Ours , an opposition group, were barred from holding a demonstration protesting alleged incidents of sexual…