Saudi Arabia to honor $3.75bn Egypt aid pledge
By RIYADH: ARAB NEWS Saudi Arabia said yesterday it would honor a pledge of $3.75 billion in aid to Egypt after complaints by the Egyptian premier that donor countries were […]
Egypt arrests man mistakenly thought to be Al Qaeda chief
AFP | Feb 29,2012 | JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — Egyptian police arrested a man on Wednesday who they thought had been a top lieutenant of Osama Ben Laden, only to discover that the man they had nabbed had the right name but the wrong identity. An Egyptian known as Seif […]
Tunisia, Egypt Islamists signal bigger religion role
By REUTERS Published: Feb 23, 2012 18:32 Updated: Feb 24, 2012 16:06 PARIS: After months of reassuring secularist critics, Islamist politicians in Tunisia and Egypt have begun to lay down markers about how Muslim their states should be — and first signs show they want more religion than previously admitted. […]
Turn Arab Spring into 10-year development plan — Prince Hassan
Petra | Feb 20,2012 | 23:21 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — HRH Prince Hassan, chairman and founder of the Arab Thought Forum (ATF), on Sunday said the Arab Spring should be transformed into a 10-year development plan that focuses on the interests of the Arab nation. During a ceremony yesterday to […]
US aid cut may force Israel treaty review — Egypt Brotherhood
Reuters | Feb 17,2012 | 23:03 JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — The Muslim Brotherhood has warned that Egypt may review its 1979 peace deal with Israel if the United States cuts aid to the country, a move that could undermine a cornerstone of Washington’s Middle East policy. Washington has said the […]
Arabs open way for arming Syrians, civil war feared
By Ayman Samir , Edmund Blair DAILY STAR LEBANON CAIRO: After a bruising meeting in a five-star Cairo hotel, Arab foreign ministers led by Gulf states hinted to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that unless he halts his violent crackdown, some Arab League members might arm his opponents. The message was […]
Egypt’s Unwise Course
NY Times Editorial: …….The army is under fire at home for holding back the democratic tide, abusing civilians even more than Mr. Mubarak and failing to govern effectively, so it is using America as a scapegoat. The confrontation is poisoning relations with a key ally at a time when Egypt […]
Threats of war cloud hopes for Middle East
Washington Post: BEIRUT — Fears of an as-yet-undefined Middle Eastern war are darkening the horizons of a region that only a year ago was celebrating the fall of dictators, the ascent […]
Arab history has been correcting itself
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon Well, reviewing events in Syria this week, I guess the unipolar world, the looming American century, and the end of history that were simultaneously announced by assorted American chauvinists and crackpots at the end of the Cold War around 1990 can be […]
Egypt PM says US threats to cut aid will not work
Military deploys troops to reinforce police JORDAN TIMES AP | Feb 09,2012 | 23:42 CAIRO — Egypt refused to back down Wednesday in a dispute with the US over Cairo’s […]
Arab Spring and Libyan prophecy
by Hasan Abu Nimah | Dec 21,2011 | 23:23 JORDAN TIMES When, in March 2008, the Libyan leader, Muammar Qadhafi warned the Arab leaders that their “turn was coming”, they […]
The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World: Is it only a war against Christians?
Courtesy Newsweek: Ayan Hirsi Ali: We hear so often about Muslims as victims of abuse in the West and combatants in the Arab Spring’s fight against tyranny. But, in fact, a wholly different kind of war is underway—an unrecognized battle costing thousands of lives. Christians are being killed in the Islamic world because […]
Sinai blast deals another blow to Jordan’s energy sector
by Taylor Luck | Feb 06,2012 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — A dawn blast in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula dealt Jordan’s energy sector its latest setback on Sunday prompting officials to prepare for yet another prolonged period without Egyptian gas supplies. According to Egyptian state media, civil defence teams have contained a […]
‘Some see Turkey as a useful model for new Arab regimes’
Source: Agence France Press – JORDAN TIMES. ISTANBUL — For many in the Arab world, Turkey embodies something of an elusive ideal: an Islamist-based democracy with a strong economy. A […]
Can Egypt Avoid Pakistan’s Fate?
Credit NY Times as referred by Imam Wasim Saroya. ONE year after the revolution that ousted President Hosni Mubarak, the Egyptian military is closing down civil society organizations and trying to manipulate the constitution-writing process to serve its narrow interests. Meanwhile, in Pakistan, where the military has also held sway […]
Deaths in Egypt Clashes Rise to 11
Associated Press CAIRO—The number of people killed in clashes with Egyptian security forces in the wake of a deadly soccer riot rose to 11 on Saturday, according to a field doctor and a security official, as demonstrators in Cairo kept up their calls for an end to military rule and […]
More than 70 die in Egyptian soccer pitch invasion
By REUTERS ARABNEWS CAIRO: Seventy-three people were killed and at least 1,000 injured on Wednesday after a soccer pitch invasion in the Egyptian city of Port Said, a health ministry […]
Can Muslim states demilitarize politics?
By Shahid Javed Burki The Daily Star Can Muslim governments free themselves from their countries’ powerful militaries and establish civilian control comparable to that found in liberal democracies? This question is now paramount in countries as disparate as Egypt, Pakistan and Turkey. To predict how this struggle will play out, […]
China closely watching workers being held in Egypt, FM says
BEIJING, Feb. 1 (Xinhua) — China’s Foreign Ministry is paying great attention to the incident that 25 Chinese workers were held Tuesday by some local people in Egypt, and the Chinese embassy in Cairo is urgently pursuing the matter with the Egyptian side, the ministry said early Wednesday in a […]
Islamic Experiment
Source: Spiegel on Line: Can Egypt Make Democracy Work? By Juliane von Mittelstaedt and Volkhard Windfuhr in Cairo Scott Nelson / DER SPIEGEL One year after the revolution, Egypt may have a parliament, but it still has a long way to go before it can call itself a true democracy. The […]