In downtown Jerusalem, hardly any Israelis paused from their shopping to hear U.S. President Barack Obama’s televised Cairo speech
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Obama Calls for New Beginning Between U.S., Muslims
— Quoting from the Quran for emphasis, President Barack Obama called for a “new beginning between the United States and Muslims” Thursday and said together, they could confront violent extremism across the globe and advance the timeless search for peace in the Middle East.
Obama: U.S. ‘not at war with Islam’
President Barack Obama spoke of the tensions Thursday between the United States and Muslims saying " the sweeping change brought by modernity and globalization led many Muslims to view the West as hostile to the traditions of Islam.
Obama looks to reach the soul of the Muslim world
Winning the hearts and minds of a majority of people is a nearly impossible feat, especially when you’re a politician. And it’s even harder when religion is involved, namely Islam, which some estimates put at 1 billion followers
Egyptians await Obama, saying, ‘It can’t all be rainbows and roses’
Languishing in a Cairo prison last year, a prisoner noticed that every day, the prison staff would clean the adjacent cell, even though there was no one in it. Why, the prisoner asked his guards, did they do it It’s for Barack Obama, they responded.
Obama aims to repair U.S. image in Muslim world
President Obama travels to the Middle East on Tuesday in an effort to repair a damaged U.S. image — and seemingly reset relations with the Muslim world. It’s a process that has been in the works since his first week in office.
Egyptian tycoon faces death over singer’s slaying
An Egyptian business tycoon and a former police officer have been found guilty of last July’s slaying of a rising Lebanese pop singer.
Hisham Talaat Moustafa: Egypt’s Condemned Tycoon
On May 21, after a trial that captivated the Arab world for nearly seven months, Egyptian multimillionaire Hisham Talaat Moustafa was sentenced to death for hiring a hitman to kill Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim.
Tycoon, ex-cop guilty of pop star’s murder
An Egyptian business tycoon and a former police officer have been found guilty of the July slaying of rising Lebanese pop singer Suzanne Tamim.
Can Obama Change the Game on Middle East Peace?
No one should have been surprised that there was no meeting of minds between President Barack Obama and Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at their inaugural summit on Monday. Although the two men proclaimed a shared commitment to having Israelis and Palestinians live in peace, their views on how to get there remain substantially at odds. Now, as Obama puts the finishing touches on a new peace plan to be unveiled shortly — perhaps when he addresses the Muslim world from Cairo next month — the question facing the Administration is how to pursue its strategy with an unenthusiastic Israeli partner.