The Pharaoh Comes to Washington
Salameh Nematt is an international writer for The Daily Beast. He is the former Washington bureau chief for the international Arab daily Al Hayat, where he reported on US foreign policy, the war in Iraq, and the US drive for democratization in the broader Middle East. He has also written extensively on regional and global energy issues and their political implications.
To get Arab nations behind the Middle East peace process, Obama is making nice with the king of Egyptian corruption, President Hosni Mubarak. Can he be trusted? By Salameh Nematt.
Can Egypt Help Obama?
Bruce Riedel is a senior fellow at the Saban Center in the Brookings Institution. He chaired President Obama’s strategic review of Afghanistan and Pakistan last winter and is author of The Search for Al Qaeda.
Egypt's Hosni Mubarak met with Hillary Clinton Monday and the president on Tuesday. Bruce Riedel says it's an opportunity for Egypt's leadership to help win the war of ideas in Afghanistan-by calling off the jihad and rejecting terror.
How Obama's Medium Is the Message
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
In Cairo, the elite are still basking in the afterglow of Obama's speech. But how long can the lovefest last?
Egypt's Billionaire Murderer
Eric Pape has reported on Europe and the Mediterranean region for Newsweek Magazine since 2003. He is co-author of the graphic novel Shake Girl, which was inspired by one of his articles. He has written for the Los Angeles Times magazine, Spin, Vibe, Le Courrier International, Salon, Los Angeles and others. He is based in Paris.
With the eyes of the world on President Obama in Egypt, the sentencing of a powerful Egyptian tycoon to hang for ordering the killing of a glamorous songstress shows how the Mideast's old rules about money and immunity are crumbling.
Memo to Obama: Cairo Was a Mistake—UPDATE
Reza Aslan, a contributor to the Daily Beast, is assistant professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside and senior fellow at the Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of the bestseller No god but God and How to Win a Cosmic War.
Obama blew a real shot at reconciliation with the Muslim world by picking Cairo for his historic speech, writes The Daily Beast's Reza Aslan.
Dubai's Pop-Star Murder
Eric Pape has reported on Europe and the Mediterranean region for Newsweek Magazine since 2003. He is co-author of the graphic novel Shake Girl, which was inspired by one of his articles. He has written for the Los Angeles Times magazine, Spin, Vibe, Le Courrier International, Salon, Los Angeles and others. He is based in Paris.
A powerful Egyptian billionaire is sentenced to hang for ordering the killing of a glamorous songstress, showing how the Mideast's old rules about money and immunity are crumbling.
Hosni Mubarak, Tony Blair, and Dennis Ross: The supposed fixers are on the march trying to broker a cease-fire. Who has the best shot? By Benjamin Sarlin
Lloyd Grove is editor at large for The Daily Beast. He is also a frequent contributor to New York magazine and was a contributing editor for Condé Nast Portfolio. He wrote a gossip column for the New York Daily News from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he wrote the Reliable Source column for the Washington Post, where he spent 23 years covering politics, the media, and other subjects.
Jacob Bernstein is a senior reporter at The Daily Beast. Previously, he was a features writer at WWD and W Magazine. He has also written for New York magazine, Paper, and The Huffington Post.
Jolie hunt is the global head of public relations for Thomson Reuters, appointed April 2008. Prior to that she served as global director of corporate and business affairs for IBM Corporation She was the director of PR for the Financial Times. She lives between New York and London.
John Barrasso is the junior senator from Wyoming.
Lee Siegel has written about culture and politics and is the author of three books: Falling Upwards: Essays in Defense of the Imagination; Not Remotely Controlled: Notes on Television; and, most recently, Against the Machine: Being Human in the Age of the Electronic Mob. In 2002, he received a National Magazine Award for reviews and criticism.
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