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CAIRO: Eight whole years after the Doctors’ Syndicate first proposed a draft law to regulate organ transplants, the Egyptian parliament has finally signed off on the controversial law much to the relief of thousands of desperate patients — but will the new law succeed in ending organ trafficking?The
By Rania Al Malky
First published: 1/1/2010
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The next Middle East war will probably be a reprieve of the last, a second war in Gaza, only this time even more violent and destabilizing for the entire region. The first Gaza war last January left unfinished business and a humanitarian catastrophe. The next war may be started by an Al-Qaeda-inspir
By Bruce Riedel
First published: 1/1/2010
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NEW YORK: Sadness is one of the small number of human emotions that have been recognized in all societies and in all time periods. Some of the earliest known epics, such as “The Iliad” and “Gilgamesh,” feature protagonists’ intense sadness after the loss of close comrades. Likewise, anthropological
By Allan V. Horwitz and Jerome C. Wakefield
First published: 1/1/2010
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CAIRO: In 1989, the prominent Orientalist Bernard Lewis argued that the Arab world was disintegrating into fragmented ethnic and sectarian enclaves, dissipating any sense of collective solidarity and identity. Looking at the Arab world today, from the ugly spat between Egypt and Algeria, countries o
By Lamis Andoni
First published: 12/30/2009
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MOSCOW: Rapid changes in the global economy and international politics are raising, once more, an eternal issue in Russia: the country’s relations with Europe, and with the Euro-Atlantic region as a whole. Of course, Russia partly belongs to this region. Yet it cannot and does not want to join the W
By Sergei Karaganov
First published: 12/30/2009
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BERKELEY: On Jan. 1, South Korea takes over the G-20 chairmanship from the United Kingdom. Korea is not the first emerging market to chair the G-20, but it is the first to do so since the global financial crisis. And it is the first to do so since the G-20 emerged as the steering committee for the w
By Barry Eichengreen
First published: 12/30/2009
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