The Forgotten War Despite billions in foreign aid and tens of thousands of NATO-led troops on the ground, low-scale warfare between coalition troops and Islamist militants has blown up into a full-fledged insurgency. With the Afghan people now losing confidence in both NATO and the Karzai government, it’s hard not to wonder whether the Taliban is about to make a comeback. A report from the front lines in Afghanistan. EVERYONE HERE IN Kabul is inside this evening and the feral dogs that have replaced them on the streets are roaming in packs and barking at the moon. It’s always like this when the darkness takes over.
Within four decades, Egypt will run out of natural gas, and current oil reserves are good for only 15 or so years. While oil majors are exploring renewable sources of energy, the NDP recently dropped a bombshell: Egypt is restarting its nuclear energy program.
ON THE EVE of the governing National Democratic Party’s annual fall convention, everyone from drones in the rank and file to the media’s talking heads
Did you know that the term “Holy War” doesn’t exist in the mainstream Muslim vocabulary? That there’s nothing wrong with saying there’s “nothing new” in Islam? That for a Muslim to kill unjustly, it is as if he or she has slain the entire world? Thirty-eight leading Muslim religious scholars and leaders representing all eight Islamic schools of thought and jurisprudence aren’t certain Pope Benedict XVI does. In response to his incendiary September speech, the 38 have sent the pontiff an open letter addressing his claims with clear, calculated logic. As the global “clash of civilizations” continues, their letter is required reading for Muslims and Christians alike.
IN AN UNPRECEDENTED MOVE, 38 leading Muslim religious scholars and leaders around the world sent Pope Benedict XVI an open letter on October 12, 2006,
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Downtown to Heliopolis Acclaimed director Mohamed Khan takes us on a whimsical roller coaster romance and, as always, stresses the importance of place in making a story believable BySherif Awad Read more
A Familiar Face AUC’s new director of Middle East Studies is no stranger to controversy, having taken fire for shunning both old-school Orientalism and his Zionist upbringing. Joel Beinin comes back to Cairo, where it all started for him. ByCallie Maidhof Read more
Finding the Arab Iliad After compiling the epic of Bani Hilal for the past 30-odd years, esteemed poet Abdel Rahman El-Abnoudy tells his own saga of loss and pain ByManal el-Jesri Read more
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