US President Mr. Barak Obama made a speech in Cairo University on June 4 th 2009 . In his, almost hour long speech, Mr. Oba...

The opening line of Siegfried Sassoon’s poem, written so many Novembers ago, came to my mind early Wednesday morning watching the Obama spee...

The years of my childhood were marked by shortages in the then socialist, self-reliant Egypt; by patriotic songs; by adults fearful of ar...