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...Over in Egypt, however, President Hosni Mubarak seems less certain of how to pursue reform. Nothing illustrates this more than the fact that his 39-year-old son, Gamal, is being groomed as his possible successor, despite the fact that Egypt is a republic rather than a monarchy. Still, Gamal's swift rise up the ranks of the ruling National Democratic Party is heralding change. Educated at the American University in Cairo, he is a businessman rather than a military man. During a town meeting at his alma mater this week, he frankly acknowledged that "much still needs...
...photo agency, he and his cohorts divided the world among themselves. At first, Cartier-Bresson got India and Southeast Asia, but over the next three decades, on assignment for Life, Paris Match and other magazines, he traveled without bounds, documenting Gandhi's funeral, the Berlin Wall, the deserts of Egypt, and China during the fall of the Kuomintang. Along the way he stopped long enough to take exceptional portraits of Jean-Paul Sartre, Picasso, Colette, Matisse, Ezra Pound and Alberto Giacometti. "De qui s'agit-il?" is at the BNF until July 27. It will then tour Europe, starting...
...Saudis and Turkey played the leading role, supported by Egypt and Jordan, against Syria and Iran...
...before him. So do American intelligence officials, grateful for Syria's help in rolling up al-Qaeda types. A longstanding goal of U.S. foreign policy in the region is to persuade the dictator to sign a peace agreement with Israel (in the same way as U.S.-backed autocrats in Egypt and Jordan have done) and end support for Hezbollah and Palestinian radicals. Gingrich may also be disappointed to learn that just last year, Tony Blair welcomed the "terrorist supporting, secret police wielding dictator" to London for talks on the region, hoping to persuade him to join the anti-Saddam coalition...
...probably the biggest media mogul you've never heard of. Born in Egypt and reared in Israel, Haim Saban is the self-made billionaire who turned an offbeat Japanese kids' TV show into a global franchise: the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. He lives on a six-acre estate in Beverly Hills, Calif., and keeps a fairly low profile. So why is he buying a group of major German TV networks and a film library...