Egypt

McDaniel's top student is going places

2013-05-28 11:55:00

Flashcards. Eric Spioch admits they may be a little old-fashioned. But the low-tech staple for young children learning their numbers and letters helped him achieve a double major in Spanish and Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies at McDaniel College. "I...

America is exceptional, and that includes the way we treat immigrants

2013-04-29 03:00:00

Dear Scholar, It was wholly a pleasure to get your thoughts about the current debate over illegal immigrants and how to approach the nettlesome challenge they represent to us -- and we to them. It was good of you to rehearse some classical history for...

Leadership vacuum, not locusts, is Egypt's greatest plague

2013-04-20 00:00:00

A plague of locusts swept through Egypt a few weeks ago, an estimated 30 million of the critters. Egyptian officials tried to downplay the phenomenon, hoping to quash any biblical analogies. They noted that locust swarms show up in the spring every...

Jewish families donate leavened food in observation of Passover

2013-03-25 12:57:00

Passover is seen traditionally as a holiday of the spring, not usually marked by snow. But Howard Kaplan and his wife, Roberta, of Baltimore, wouldn't let Monday's inclement conditions deter them from coming to the Pimlico Race Course to dispose of...

60 Minutes serves the president some softballs

2013-02-02 03:00:00

In the days of the late Mike Wallace, "60 Minutes" was known for hard-hitting, aggressive journalism that asked the questions viewers wanted answered and held the powerful accountable. The Jan. 27 program on which Steve Kroft interviewed President Obama...

We should not be aiding Egypt when Maryland needs help

2013-03-08 06:00:00

What! I can't believe it. The Sun reports that Secretary of State John Kerry promises to give Egypt $190 million to help the government pay its bills ("Egypt deal with IMF of paramount importance: Kerry," Mar. 2). Last week I heard it was $60 million....

Netanyahu's choices

2013-02-11 03:00:00

As President Barack Obama begins his second term, he faces a series of Middle East challenges far more daunting than when he began his presidency in 2009. These problems include: •what to do about the Arab-Israeli conflict, with peace talks between...

Who needs reform most: Egypt or America?

2012-09-29 04:00:00

Prior to leaving Egypt for the United Nations General Assembly, Egypt's Islamist President Mohamed Morsi told The New York Timesthe United States needs to "fundamentally change" its approach to the Arab world. That includes, he said, showing greater...

Childish behavior, deadly consequences

2012-09-16 04:00:00

I was not aware of a film insulting to Islam until American embassies were attacked in Libya and Egypt. Thus, Muslim extremists managed, through the expedient of riot and rampage, to bring attention to the very thing they loathe, a thing which, but for...

Middle East mess was born in the U.S.A.

2012-11-29 10:16:00

Titillation over David Petraeus and political posturing over Susan Rice aside, here is the most important unasked question: Why did we foster regime change in Libya and Egypt that gave the Muslim Brotherhood control in the latter and produced a gaggle...

In Egypt, it is darkest before dawn

2012-12-03 07:53:00

The images shown on the news media are startling: violence rages on the streets of Cairo while a divided government continues to sow seeds of discord. I have spent some time in Tahrir Square this past week and have seen a very different perspective. I...

For Israel, it's different this time

2012-11-19 11:48:00

Until this year, the world would have been looking at the intensifying armed confrontation between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip with a sense of deja vu all over again. But this is 2012, and the political map of the Middle East has changed...

Instructor Jane Moffett of School District 181 shows sixth graders at Walker School in Clarendon Hills the significance of art in ancient Egypt. The class spent a week studying Egypt. Feb. 16, 1990.

2013-06-12 13:33:26

Relatives and friends of activist Ahmed Douma shout slogans against against Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi and members of the Muslim Brotherhood at his trial at the New Cairo court, on the outskirts of Cairo June 3, 2013.

2013-06-03 00:00:00

Grand Marshall Herman Kramer rides along Main St. during the Egypt Park Festival Parade held on Saturday.

2013-06-01 00:00:00