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Bin Laden and the Afghan endgame
By Shahid Javed Burki ISLAMABAD: Osama bin Laden’s death in a firefight with…
A new vision for ending the Arab-Israeli conflict now
By Michael Felsen BOSTON, Massachusetts; As the turbulent winds of the Arab Spring…
The goose is cooked: licit or illicit
By Philip Whitfield Egypt's justice minister, Mohamed El-Guindi, says President Hosni Mubarak faces…
Ramifications of the Palestinian reconciliation agreement: Good news for peace
By Ghassan Khatib The reconciliation agreement that was initialed between Fatah and Hamas…
Egyptians see bin Laden’s death ‘insignificant,’ others mourn him
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: While some Egyptians described the death of Osama bin…
Mayday Mayday: where’s the Zakat?
By Philip Whitfield Although May Day began as a commemoration of stonemasons in…
A bomb in every reactor
By Joschka Fischer BERLIN: Twenty-five years after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the…
Sleepwalking through America’s unemployment crisis
By Mohamed El-Erian NEWPORT BEACH: It was relegated to the Q&A session, rather…