Al-Sisi reviews Egypt's food security, strategic commodity reserves    Egypt signs strategic agreements to attract global investment in gold, mineral exploration    Syria says it will defend its territory after Israeli strikes in Suwayda    Egyptian Exchange ends mixed on July 15    Suez Canal vehicle carrier traffic set to rebound by 20% in H2: SCA chief    Tut Group launches its operations in Egyptian market for exporting Egyptian products    China's urban jobless rate eases in June '25    Egypt's Health Minister reviews drug authority cooperation with WHO    Egypt urges EU support for Gaza ceasefire, reconstruction at Brussels talks    Pakistan names Qatari royal as brand ambassador after 'Killer Mountain' climb    Health Ministry denies claims of meningitis-related deaths among siblings    Egypt, Mexico explore joint action on environment, sustainability    Egypt, Mexico discuss environmental cooperation, combating desertification    Needle-spiking attacks in France prompt government warning, public fear    Foreign, housing ministers discuss Egypt's role in African development push    Korea Culture Week in Egypt to blend K-Pop with traditional arts    Egypt, France FMs review Gaza ceasefire efforts, reconstruction    CIB finances Giza Pyramids Sound and Light Show redevelopment with EGP 963m loan    Greco-Roman tombs with hieroglyphic inscriptions discovered in Aswan    Egypt reveals heritage e-training portal    Three ancient rock-cut tombs discovered in Aswan    Egypt condemns deadly terrorist attack in Niger        Sisi launches new support initiative for families of war, terrorism victims    Egypt's GAH, Spain's Konecta discuss digital health partnership    Egypt expands e-ticketing to 110 heritage sites, adds self-service kiosks at Saqqara    Egypt's Irrigation Minister urges scientific cooperation to tackle water scarcity    Palm Hills Squash Open debuts with 48 international stars, $250,000 prize pool    Egypt's Democratic Generation Party Evaluates 84 Candidates Ahead of Parliamentary Vote    On Sport to broadcast Pan Arab Golf Championship for Juniors and Ladies in Egypt    Golf Festival in Cairo to mark Arab Golf Federation's 50th anniversary    Germany among EU's priciest labour markets – official data    Cabinet approves establishment of national medical tourism council to boost healthcare sector    Egypt's PM follows up on Julius Nyerere dam project in Tanzania    Paris Olympic gold '24 medals hit record value    A minute of silence for Egyptian sports    Russia says it's in sync with US, China, Pakistan on Taliban    It's a bit frustrating to draw at home: Real Madrid keeper after Villarreal game    Shoukry reviews with Guterres Egypt's efforts to achieve SDGs, promote human rights    Sudan says countries must cooperate on vaccines    Johnson & Johnson: Second shot boosts antibodies and protection against COVID-19    Egypt to tax bloggers, YouTubers    Egypt's FM asserts importance of stability in Libya, holding elections as scheduled    We mustn't lose touch: Muller after Bayern win in Bundesliga    Egypt records 36 new deaths from Covid-19, highest since mid June    Egypt sells $3 bln US-dollar dominated eurobonds    Gamal Hanafy's ceramic exhibition at Gezira Arts Centre is a must go    Italian Institute Director Davide Scalmani presents activities of the Cairo Institute for ITALIANA.IT platform    

Articles of the author Ian Black
Egypt's Army Remains the Ultimate Arbiter of Power
Egypt's first modern revolution, carried out by Gamal Abdel Nasser and his fellow "free officers," overthrew the monarchy and ushered in the first republic in 1952. The army's actions in 2011 allowed Hosni Mubarak to fall without mass bloodshed. Now (...)

02 - 07 - 2013
Pressure mounts to pull rival Sudans back from brink
KHARTOUM: South Sudanese forces have made a diversionary attack near the contested Abyei region, state-linked media in Khartoum said, as international pressure mounted Wednesday to pull the rivals back from the brink of all-out war. The attack (...)

18 - 04 - 2012
Murder Unincorporated
NEW YORK: What possessed the young French Muslim Mohammed Merah to murder three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi, and three soldiers, two of them fellow Muslims? What possessed another man, Anders Breivik, to gun down more than 60 teenagers in a (...)

08 - 04 - 2012
Lost oil billions leave Sudan's economy reeling
KHARTOUM: Sudan has lost billions of dollars in oil receipts since the south gained independence last year, and is plagued by soaring prices and a weakening currency, with no economic solution in sight for the bankrupt nation, analysts say. "The (...)

26 - 02 - 2012
India's Sufis give image of Islam through comics
NEW DELHI: “O Imam Ali, can you tell us how far it is to heaven?” asked a group of Muslim pilgrims to which the wise one replied, “Just Two Steps Away”… The cover of a new Islamic text reaches out to children worldwide with its witty quips. A (...)

22 - 02 - 2012
Egypt's mummies divulge secrets in modern Scotland
EDINBURGH: Modern technology reveals the secrets kept for thousands of years by Egyptian mummies in a major exhibition at Scotland's National Museum. Scientists used advanced scanning techniques on the mummified corpses of a young woman and a (...)

16 - 02 - 2012
American funk
NEW YORK: The eccentric Bengali intellectual Nirad C. Chaudhuri once explained the end of the British Raj in India as a case of “funk,” or loss of nerve. The British had stopped believing in their own empire. They simply lost the will, in Rudyard (...)

08 - 02 - 2012
North Korea's tears
HO CHI MINH CITY: Can an entire people go mad? Sometimes it certainly seems so. Images of North Koreans in their hundreds of thousands howling with grief over Kim Jong-il's death suggest something very disturbing. But what? An exercise in mass (...)

05 - 01 - 2012
Restoring European growth
NEW YORK: Europe's sovereign-debt crisis has rumbled on for so long that some people are beginning to take it for granted that eurozone leaders can continue to stumble from one non-solution to the next without risk of cataclysm. But if any troubled (...)

29 - 12 - 2011
Gaza militants fire rockets after Israeli threat
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say Palestinian militants have fired two rockets at Israel's south and one hit a kindergarten. This came just hours after Israel's military chief warned that Israel would have to carry out an offensive in Gaza to (...)

15 - 11 - 2011
Israel speeds up work on airline defense system
JERUSALEM — Israel has sped up work on a missile defense system for its commercial airliners because of fears that Palestinian militants in Gaza have obtained anti-aircraft weapons looted from Libya, defense officials said Friday. All Israeli (...)

12 - 11 - 2011
The lynching of Libya
NEW YORK: Many would say that Col. Muammar El-Qaddafi got what he deserved. Live by the sword, die by the sword. The Libyan tyrant happily allowed his opponents, or anyone who annoyed him, to be tortured or killed. So it seems only right that he (...)

08 - 11 - 2011
Obama's Israel problem
NEW YORK: On a rare foray outside his native Texas, Governor Rick Perry accused US President Barack Obama of “appeasement” towards the Palestinians. Former New York City Mayor Edward Koch supported a Catholic Republican congressional candidate (...)

11 - 10 - 2011
Ladies first, women last
NEW YORK: Many people still believe that the attacks of September 11, 2001, were not just acts of political terrorism, but part of a cultural war, a clash of civilizations. The two things that get people most excited in cultural conflicts are (...)

09 - 09 - 2011
Big ice: Getting to know Argentina's huge glaciers
LOS GLACIARES NATIONAL PARK, Argentina — The face of Perito Moreno Glacier resembles a colossal fortress, its jagged spires of ice towering about 200 feet (60 meters) above a lake dotted with icebergs. It is Patagonia's most-photographed glacier, (...)

28 - 08 - 2011
Europe without Turkey
AMSTERDAM: Most European citizens (for example, more than 60 percent in France and Germany) believe that Turkey should not become part of the European Union. There are various reasons for this opposition — some valid, some based on prejudice: Turkey (...)

08 - 07 - 2011
Why more migration makes sense
OXFORD: In almost every rich country, anti-immigrant fervor is at fever pitch. But it is a malady that must be resisted if these societies are to continue to prosper and developing countries are to fight poverty and sustain economic growth. A (...)

07 - 07 - 2011
All the Queen's children
NEW YORK: Does monarchy — constitutional monarchy, that is, not the despotic kind — have any redeeming features left? The arguments against maintaining kings and queens are mostly quite rational. It is unreasonable in this democratic age to pay (...)

05 - 05 - 2011
Taking the fat out of global warming
LONDON: Mitigating climate change presents unrivaled opportunities for improving human health and well being. Indeed, policies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions promise to bring about substantial reductions in heart disease, respiratory illness, (...)

18 - 04 - 2011
Japan's political tremors
NEW YORK: Rarely — indeed, perhaps not since World War II — have the Japanese had such good press abroad. Even South Korean newspapers have been full of praise for the self-discipline of ordinary Japanese in dire circumstances. And coming from (...)

08 - 04 - 2011
Measuring the revolutionary wave
NEW YORK: A prediction three months ago that popular protests would soon topple a dictatorship in Tunisia, sweep Hosni Mubarak from power in Egypt, provoke civil war in Moammar Qaddafi's Libya, and rattle regimes from Morocco to Yemen would have (...)

08 - 04 - 2011
Obama gets it right
NEW YORK: US President Barack Obama has been much criticized for the way he has handled revolutionary changes in North Africa and the Middle East. Actually, he has not handled them very much, at least not in public. That is precisely the problem (...)

09 - 03 - 2011
Dollar on backfoot; jobs data fails to impress
SYDNEY: The dollar struggled against a basket of major currencies early in Asia on Monday after failing to get a boost from data showing a rebound in US jobs, while the euro stayed supported on expectations of an interest rate hike next (...)

08 - 03 - 2011
Egypt's military names constitutional panel
CAIRO - Egyptian military rulers Tuesday formed a committee to suggest amendments to the constitution that will complete its task within 10 days. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces has reiterated that it will hand over power to a civilian (...)

16 - 02 - 2011
Egypt's military council set to ban strikes
CAIRO - Egypt's military leaders are set to ban strikes and act against "chaos and disorder" to restore order following protests that led to President Hosni Mubarak's ouster, as security forces tried to remove the final protesters from Cairo's Al (...)

14 - 02 - 2011
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