"Cairo, U.S. Blindsided by Revolt" was The Wall Street Journal's headline on its analysis of what led up to the Egyptian crisis. "We were caught by surprise." Israeli Finance Minister Yval Steinitz ...

Plan now for the major shocks that further subsidy cuts will soon bring. [ analysis ] The revolution in Tunisia is spreading to the rest of the Arab world. But it would be a grave mistake to confuse ...

As the crisis in Egypt reached its inevitable climax this week, commentators struggled to find historical parallels, from the fall of the Berlin Wall, to Tiananmen Square, to the Iranian revolution.

It turns out that the piece from the Pope Center for Higher Education Policy last week arguing that too much college was the source of Egypt’s turmoil wasn’t an anomaly. According to an article by ...

Five years ago, President Barack Obama traveled to Egypt -- then still governed by the pro-American, secularist authoritarian Hosni Mubarak -- to explain how he believed this Earth could at last ...

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There are tariffs, there are prohibitive tariffs and then there’s Egypt tariff on whiskey. It is, without a doubt, the most fascinating import tax of all time, largely because nothing about it makes ...

“The people of the world can live together in peace,” Obama said at Cairo University. “We know that is God’s vision. Now that must be our work here on Earth.” In Obama’s view — although he did point ...