Egyptian businessmen once anticipated the free-trade agreement (FTA) with the US as an opportunity to decentralize and privatize the economy. However, the Egyptian cabinet already embraces entrepreneurship and reform, and with FTA negotiations failing, the agreement increasingly seems redundant....
In Egypt, just because a couple is engaged doesn't mean they'll get married. Securing and furnishing a flat involves setbacks, some monetary, others not. Just when things look good, the wedding date is postponed....
US President Obama suggested that one of his biggest regrets failure to plan for Libya after the 2011 NATO intervention. Libya is a failed state, but that does not mean intervention was wrong, argues Shadi Hamid, a senior fellow with the Brookings Institution, for Vox. “The goal was to protect...
Read the article from Vox. Shadi Hamid is a senior fellow at the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution’s Center for Middle East Policy and the author of the forthcoming book Islamic Exceptionalism: How the...
US President Barack Obama and Afghan President Hamid Karzai are meeting throughout the day at the White House, developing specifics on troop withdrawal from Afghanistan and the US role in the region. Afghanistan faces two futures. “The direction depends on whether Afghanistan breaks its...
BOSTON: As the 2014 date for the withdrawal of most foreign troops from Afghanistan approaches, the country faces two starkly different futures. One is a return to the civil war conditions of the 1990s that brought disaster and disunity. In this...
为结束利比亚政府对平民的袭击，北大西洋公约组织发起了一系列的军事行动，可事实上，组织成员对行动的积极程度却是千差万别。此次分为上下两篇的系列文章将对北约的使命以及成员国对联盟未来发展的热衷度作一分析。在上篇中，英国广播公司新闻（BBC News）的阿里斯戴尔•伯奈特（Alistair Burnett）将北约在利比亚的军事干预形容成是三心两意的。在28个北约成员国中，有一半参与了打击行动；而这些国家各自怀着不同的目的：抑制北非移民，削弱美国参与军事行动的必要性，还有让穆阿迈尔•卡扎菲（Muammar Gaddafi）下台。伯奈特指出，北约成员国现今根据各自利益对任务挑挑拣拣的做法，...
伦敦：随着“联合保护者”（Operation Unified Protector）行动在利比亚的展开，北约投身到了自成立以来的第三次战争行动中。如同1999年第一次在南斯拉夫发动战争，联盟内部对此次行动也一样充满了分歧。但北约毕竟已经上了前线，向那些忠于穆阿迈尔·卡扎菲上校（Colonel Muammar Gaddafi）的军队发起了攻击，几乎每天都出动战机100多架次。对这个军事联盟来说，这场干涉行动三心两意的本质，积极或消极的看法都有。不过，随着时间的推移，...
Donald Trump blasted critics who reject his plans to improve US ties with Russia on Twitter: “Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing. Only ‘stupid’ people, or fools, would think that it is bad!” But Congress may not go along, including Republicans who worry about...
Not “’stupid’ people or fools”: US President-elect Donald Trump seeks closer ties with Moscow; Russian President Vladimir Putin with the nominee for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, former CEO of ExxonMobil
WASHNGTON, DC: Donald Trump won’t be the...
Fashion loses its allure when associated with horrific factory conditions. “In a letter addressed to prime minister Sheikh Hasina by the steering committee of the Bangladesh Accord on Fire and Building Safety global retailers called for the release of detained worker leaders after the December...
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The Accord on factory safety in Bangladesh has been signed by more than 200 apparel brands, retailers and importers from more than 20 countries. The company signatories can be found here.
Mere days before Donald Trump announced that the United States intends to recognize Jerusalem as capital of Israel, President of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas made a last-ditch effort to rally diplomatic support against such recognitionl. “Abbas placed a series of phone calls on Sunday...
The Almond, the first novel of North African writer Nedjma, has attracted media and critical attention ever since its publication in France last year. The novel is a study of sex – a topic very much off-limits to authors in traditional Arab societies, let alone the women who live within the...
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