New negotiations will test Netanyahu's commitment
WASHINGTON, DC: Yasser Arafat was enticed to attend a meeting with Ehud…
Obama and the Nobel Peace Prize
President Barack Obama's 2009 Nobel Peace Prize immediately triggered strong reactions worldwide,…
The Fight for Middle Germany
BERLIN: Germany has made its choice. It voted the grand coalition out…
Moving toward peace along Pakistan's western border?
ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani told the…
An equal Arab-Palestinian education in Israel
NAZARETH: Education is central for shaping the characteristics of a society. It…
The Anti-History Boys
BERKELEY: If you asked a modern economic historian like me why the…
Five years to Millennium Development Goals deadline
JAKARTA: The 2015 deadline set by the United Nations Millennium Declaration to…
Editorial: Confronting the niqab
The Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mohamed Sayed Tantawy dropped a bombshell early…
Fat chance
ATLANTA: We are, supposedly, in the midst of an obesity epidemic. Everyone…
Borlaug and the bankers
NEW YORK: The recent death of Norman Borlaug provides an opportune moment…