Mohamed ElBaradei returned to Egypt at a critical point in the country's political history. With President Mubarak in power for almost three decades, there is a general feeling that political life is stagnant. Egyptians are looking forward to (...)
Herodotus, the ancient Greek historian, described Egypt as "the gift of the Nile" when he visited it in the fifth century BC. At the time, Egyptians had already gathered around the Nile--perhaps some 10,000 years before that--to create one of the (...)
Unrelated events find a common link as if by coincidence, becoming a whole story. I was reading a book about the life of Robert Oppenheimer, the American physicist who directed the Manhattan Project, which developed the world's first nuclear bomb, (...)
Hazem El-Beblawi* reflects on Egypts year of going to the polls
For many Egyptians, 2005 was the election year par excellence. After a presidential election in September, legislative elections followed two months later. The whole show was presented (...)