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Indonesian efforts to defend multiculturalism
By Testriono JAKARTA: Recent cases of religious intolerance in Indonesia have led…
Cutting the fog: Multiculturalism, religion and the common good
By Sara Silvestri The death of “multiculturalism” has been proclaimed repeatedly recently,…
Should China be ‘contained’?
By Joseph Nye CAMBRIDGE: This month marks the 40th anniversary of Henry…
In Lebanon, dialogue as a solution
By Sheikh Hani Fahs BEIRUT: The Taif Agreement, ratified in 1989, brought…
Five Ismailia workers on strike arrested
By Safaa Abdoun CAIRO: The military police has arrested five workers at…
Decoding Egypt: Egypt and Israel: Can Deep Contradictions be Settled?
By Nael Shama "In reading a text, one must open it out…
To repay or not to repay debts?
By Jean Pisani-Ferry BRUSSELS: For months now, a fight over sovereign-debt restructuring…
Confessions of a financial deregulator
By Bradford DeLong BERKELEY: Back in the late 1990s, in America at…