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Global Network Initiative is withering on the vine
John Moe Mar 7, 2011
Three years ago, Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft signed on to a code of conduct designed to protect free speech and protect privacy online. The Global...
Words from the mother of modern Egyptian feminism
Mitchell Hartman Jan 25, 2012
Dr. Nawal Al-Saadawi is 80. She went to Tahrir Square during the most violent period of clashes in late January, and was with the protesters until the resignation of Hosni Mubarak on Feb. 11, 2011.
MID-DAY UPDATE: Oil prices concern consumers, HBO taps job-strapped market
Katharine Crnko Mar 3, 2011
Unrest in Libya continues, and as stranded workers wait to return to their countries, Britain and France have volunteered aircraft to evacuate...
Reporter's Notebook: Egypt's Tahrir Square by day and night
Mitchell Hartman Sep 21, 2011
Tahrir Square, in the center of downtown Cairo, is now the heart of Egypt's revolution. And like Paris's Bastille and Beijing's Tiananmen, it's...
MID-DAY UPDATE: Egypt offers supplies to fellow protesters, White House works to settle mortgage breakdowns
Katharine Crnko Feb 24, 2011
As protests and violence continues to escalate in Libya, Egyptian citizens are offering more than just moral support. As Mitchell Hartman reports...
On rich and poor in Egypt...
Mitchell Hartman Sep 21, 2011
We hear a pounding drumbeat that 'economic disparity' is at the root of the peoples' revolutions sweeping the Middle East. And it's true, to a ...
Mid-day Update: Oil prices surge with unrest in Libya, Egyptian businesses reopen
Katharine Crnko Feb 21, 2011
Over the weekend, businesses, schools, banks and museums reopened for business in Egypt. Many businesses offered deep discounts to encourage...
MID-DAY UPDATE: stock exchange merger, Egypt, workers' union, and Civil War tourism
Katharine Crnko Feb 18, 2011
Now that the German and New York stock exchanges have tied the knot, it's time to discuss which entity is going to take a new name. Germans think...
What an Arab revolution looks like-up close
Mitchell Hartman Sep 21, 2011
The Bangles' "Walk Like an Egyptian" is playing at my favorite pizza joint in Portland as I tell my kids, age 10 and 13, that I'm going to Cairo....
MAP: U.S. foreign aid to the Middle East and South Asia
Jaclyn Giovis Sep 21, 2011
Since the end of World War II, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has worked to further America's foreign policy inte...
