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Education: The global antidote to poverty, disease and terrorism
By Dr Cesar Chelala Despite enormous technological advances, humanity continues to grapple…
Football and militant Islam intersect in incidents across the Middle East
By James M. Dorsey A successful football player near the peak of…
The Syrian tunnel and the spring
By Fadi Elhusseini When the first spontaneous explosions of the Arab democratic…
Path to sanity: Political humour in Egypt
By Amr Khalifa “A girl writes she is every Egyptian young man’s…
Reshaping the Middle East: UAE leads the counterrevolution
By James M. Dorsey War planes from oil-rich Gulf states play a…
Signs of rebound in Egypt’s tourism sector
By Robert Tashima The government in Egypt is expecting a recovery of its…
The lie behind the Gaza Reconstruction Conference
By Ricard Gonzalez A good-hearted global citizen would assume that the amount…
The capitalist cure for terrorism
Military might alone won’t defeat Islamic State and its ilk. The US…
Egypt: University students vs the state
By Reem Khorshid As I chose to major in Architectural Engineering one year…
The public health impact of domestic violence
By Dr Cesar Chelala Physical or sexual violence is a serious public…