God bless Ehud Olmert
Call it a master stroke.Israel Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's surprise announcement on Sunday calling for a regional peace conference is bound to shame the purportedly successful Riyadh Summit.Last week, Arab…
OCI net income up 57 percent on strong construction, cement performance
Company continues MENA expansion; plans to add 10 million tons to cement production capacity in next 6 months CAIRO: Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) reported late last week net income reached…
Egypt Air, not Egypt Scare
LONDON: I disembarked at Heathrow Airport on Friday, happy and safe from my EygptAir Flight 0777, an airline that doesn't deserve its moniker, Egypt Scare.The scariest part of the journey…
I was misread on the finality of liberal democracy
Fifteen years ago in my book "The End of History and the Last Man, I argued that, if a society wanted to be modern, there was no alternative to a…
And the winner in Iraq is: the Al-Qaeda jihadists
It is a terrible mistake to discount Al-Qaeda's operational abilities, now and in the future. If you read the accounts of Al-Qaeda insiders, the war on terror was essentially over…
A rare rainbow at Guantanamo Bay
As the 15-seat propeller plane dipped hard right through the clouds, as we prepared to land at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, something rare flashed into view:…
World Health Day Debate on International Health Security
A foreign agent that invades sovereign territory, evades detection, kills civilians, and disrupts the economy is a security threat by most definitions. Not all new diseases are highly lethal, contagious,…
Gamal Mubarak to get married on April 28
CAIRO: Gamal Mubarak, the politician son of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, will marry on April 28 and the wedding party will take place on May 4, the independent newspaper Al-Masry…
MD Anderson joins the US-Middle East partnership for breast cancer awareness and research
HOUSTON: The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center has joined the US-Middle East Partnership for Breast Cancer Awareness and Research, a collaboration designed to increase early breast cancer detection…