FOREIGN
Mubarak to
attend direct peace talks...
Gaza militants
launched the rockets from Sinai...
Reuters
suggests olive branch in river row...
US citizen on his way
home from Cairo...
MISC
Another
first... Amazing desert meteor
crater
discovery...
Arabia looks
at the possibilities of flying taxis....
Details...
IRIN
overviews water shortage protests...
Changing landscapes...
AUC's CASA program
moves back downtown...
Meanwhile, a comprehensive
history of the High Dam....
Egyptian American watch expert passes
away...
UK
inquest on Ashraf Marwan
doesn't
answer questions...
Earlier: What really happened?
Ashraf Marwan inquest begins in London... Reports from
AP,
Observer, and
Evening Standard...
ECONOMY
N
ew financial arrangements
mean more domestic gas... Big rig on
its way
over from the Gulf of Mexico...
Big business... Bloomberg
talks to a town-building Sawiris
brother...
Planning for a
major power plant...
Port Said tunnel
planned for Suez Canal...
New
chairman for the bourse...
POLITICS
LA Times
reports on Facebook presidential hope
hackers...
Is Egypt too
big to fail?
During Cairo visit, US Attorney General comments
on Khaled Said, elections -- reports from
AFP,
NY Times and
Reuters... Plus, NPR
rounds up the case... Earlier: Khaled Said policemen trial
begins... Gamal Mubarak
speaks up about the Khaled Said case...
Silent protests
continue...
Earlier: Khaled Said update...
National has most comprehensive
coverage of police arrests... Other reports
from
CNN,
BBC,
Reuters and
VOA...
Mubarak
gives Revolution Day speech...
Focuses on economic issues... Guardian
interprets... Earlier: Mubarak at military parade
amidst health rumors...
Very special report...
The
Economist produces a must-read multi-part special report on Egypt's
changing political, social and economic landscape. Not sure what their pay
wall policy is, but here are a few choice links...
First, the
intro... An interesting
photo accompanies this story...
Meanwhile, the author -- Max Rodenbeck --
weighs
in: "The vast majority have grown so inured to having no say in the course of
events that the reflex is to float patiently rather than try to paddle...."
In the same article, there's a small but telling
graphic showing demographic changes over the past 20 years...
Here, the magazine argues that religiosity is increasing but
not
as a political force... Plus: Lots of
statistics.... Sections on pure
politics...
pure
economy... Education and its
ramifications... And: Looking at the
big
money...
Endowments or aid?
The
future of US assistance to Egypt gets
complicated...
Much more politics here...
MEDIA
Rapid change press...
"Seismic media
evolution..."
Multilayered
look at
the state of the press...
CRASH WATCH
8
sentenced
over train crash...
Tough positions...
Editorial on trains,
ministers and
accountability... AFP story lists various errors that led to the
train crash, including
drugs...
Train crash
blame
begins... Earlier:
Train tragedy
near Giza...
ARCHAEOLOGY
King Tut's chariot on its
way to NY...
More
robots
heading for the pyramids...
Zahi Hawass's new TV show gets
panned by the NY Times...
Meanwhile, Newsweek is
excited about antiquities tourism...
SHOWBIZ
LA Times
looks at a controversial new film...
Paris Hilton
at the Pyramids... and
at a car show...
SPORTS
Hang
on... Big Youth Olympic
hopes
for young pentathlon competitor...
Another
emerging international football
star....
Goalie gets FIFA
ban...
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