Bangladesh: Basket case or recipe for success?
Out in the ravaged fields, days after Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, the…
In Focus: The Egyptian bureaucracy rebels
Would anyone have imagined that the employees of Egypt's over 5000-year-old bureaucracy…
Choosing the Annapolis road
The ink on the joint Israeli-Palestinian understanding is dry, the delegates have…
No democracy without Muslim citizenry
Discussions of a democratic deficit in the Middle East are not new.…
Refugees and Jerusalem: An economic outlook
Last week, former deputy minister for economic affairs in the Palestinian Authority,…
Killing the Death Penalty
It is finally happening. After 13 years of negotiations, delays, and hesitation,…
The settlers will survive Annapolis
The Annapolis conference was primarily an instance of political theater rather than…