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...Ultimately, Rice believes the Arab states are crucial to pushing Hamas toward the center. And thus Egypt is her first stop. She arrived in Aswan on Saturday afternoon, and she is meeting with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and other Arab leaders over the rest of the weekend and into Monday. Soon after touching down, she went behind closed doors to talk with Arab foreign ministers and intelligence chiefs. Rice will urge Arab leaders, who are scheduled to hold a summit in Riyadh on Wednesday, March 28, to revive a 2002 proposal by the Arab League to recognize Israel in exchange...
...energies of that moment subsided, but they never died out. If it hadn't been for all that weaving and sewing, for instance, the embroidered work of Egyptian artist Ghada Amer would be hard to imagine--to say nothing of Mike Kelley's stuffed-animal art. That's the point of the other big, smart new show "Global Feminisms" at the Brooklyn Museum. Organized by Maura Reilly and art historian Linda Nochlin, it concentrates on art made since 1990 and demonstrates that the concerns of the '70s have spread around the world. Jenny Saville's big nudes, for instance, with...
...mistaken for a creeper. I just figured that normally people are not suspicious of a college-aged kid entering a dorm at 1 p.m. on a school day, wearing a “Harvard ‘08” sweatshirt and carrying a book about deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphs...
...sentence surprised Gamal Eid, the Executive Director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information. The most blog-repressive regimes had been Tunisia, followed by Saudi Arabia, Syria and Libya, which have blocked sites and limited internet access. Eid had written earlier in the year that "the Egyptian bloggers, in particular, are pioneers who have guided other Arab bloggers" and that, despite limited numbers, the influence and popularity of Arab bloggers "have exceeded all expectations. The blogs act as a pain in the tooth for many Arab governments which fear citizens gaining the means to reveal their illegal and anti...
Italy On Feb. 17, an Italian court indicted 26 Americans, most of them CIA agents, on charges of kidnapping Egyptian imam Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, who was seized in Milan in 2003 and taken to Cairo, where he was allegedly tortured. The first criminal trial involving rendition is set to begin in June, but Italy has already said it will not seek extraditions...