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Articles of the author Abdallah Schleifer
Misinformation about Egypt's ‘Massacre'
No one really knows how many pro-Morsi protestors were killed on Wednesday – the government says about 270, the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) has been saying more than 2,000. My assumption is that both parties are lying. What will be interesting is to see (...)

15 - 08 - 2013
An American expat's letter to America: Let the rhetoric end!
CAIRO: The UN Security Council has voted for a no-fly zone over Libya. Hours before that vote the embattled Libyan leader Qaddafi threatened to throw everything he had into the battle for Benghazi, to end it before any no-fly had begun; to be (...)

18 - 03 - 2011
Egypt and Turkey, It''s time to act
Some of my Egyptian friends, having stood in Tahrir Square during the most critical days, are now engaged in running medical supplies and occasionally doctors into Libya. And now that the International Red Cross is in place and working closely with (...)

07 - 03 - 2011
Obama and the Muslim World: A year after Cairo
CAIRO: More than three decades ago Jacques Ellul, the French moral philosopher and sociologist argued that the development and impact of mass media revolutionizes politics in a negative sense, because of the flood of indiscriminate information and (...)

25 - 04 - 2010
Obama begins a new beginning
It was at Cairo University s Festival Hall that the great diva of Egyptian song, Um Kulthoum, held her greatest concert triumphs in the 1950s and 1960s. In the hall with a massive beige dome that made it look like an elegant concert hall or even (...)

05 - 06 - 2009
Yes He Can! Insha'Aallah, Yes He Will!
Obama is coming to Cairo! What a refreshing change! I'm not just referring to the rather extraordinary popular mood in streets noted in the more recent past for an anti-US stance. Part of the refreshing change is in my email inbox. Instead of the (...)

02 - 06 - 2009
Bush and the flying shoes
CAIRO: Many many years ago, in Tangiers, before I had become a Muslim or understood much if anything about Muslim ways, I was sitting at a traditional outdoor Arab café, one of several that ring the perimeter around the small midan or square that (...)

16 - 12 - 2008
Before the flood
Abdallah Schleifer and Barbi Bursch Eysselinck highlight the wonders of Nubia as they walk us through the pulling together of a collection that offers unprecedented insight into a land that once was This week, The Rare Books and Special Collections (...)

10 - 02 - 2005
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