Feb 08 Tool$ Tuesday: Currency Conversion and Haydn's Messiah By Elizabeth Shell Name: Roland Weiser Question: I would appreciate the name of the site where you can obtain today's value for currency in the past. I'm writing a family memoir: my father worked in Cairo, Egypt as a pharmacist in 1906 and… Continue reading
Feb 07 What Is the Role of the Military in Egypt's Transition? By Larisa Epatko The Egyptian military was the subject of international attention during the massive protests in Cairo's Tahrir Square. And now as the country looks to transition to a new government, people are closely watching how its role might change. Continue reading
Feb 05 Would-Be Egypt Crisis Broker Finds It Heavy Going By Margaret Warner Ahmed Zewail and Margaret Warner CAIRO, Egypt | We're sitting in the lobby lounge of an upscale Cairo hotel, littered with road-weary journalists and private security personnel. Holding court in one corner is the 1999 Nobel Prize winner for chemistry,… Continue reading
Feb 04 Watch Shields and Brooks on Obama's Egypt Stance, Debt-Limit Fight Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks discuss the week's political developments, including the most recent unemployment report, the U.S. response to unrest in Egypt and the brewing fight in Washington over government debt. Continue watching
Feb 04 Watch U.S., Arab Leaders Walk Fine Line as Egypt's Power Center Remains Uncertain As demonstrators continue calls for President Hosni Mubarak's immediate resignation, the U.S. faces diplomatic challenges in its relationship with Egypt. Judy Woodruff speaks with Michele Dunne of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Marc Lynch of George Washington University and… Continue watching
Feb 04 Mubarak in 1993: Egypt 'Keen' on Democracy, but It Takes Time By Larisa Epatko As protests continue in Cairo calling for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak, we turned to the NewsHour video vault for some additional perspective on the Egyptian leader's background. Continue reading
Feb 04 Watch Egypt Activist: As Mubarak Clings to Power, People Become More Disappointed Tens of thousands of protesters convened in Cairo for what was called a "day of departure" for President Hosni Mubarak, but he continues to reject calls to leave office immediately. Writer and blogger Wael Nawara, a key opposition figure, tells… Continue watching
Feb 04 Egypt Coverage Divide Seen Among Patchwork Nation Community Types By Dante Chinni The scenes playing out in Egypt and across the Arab world are not just dramatic, they are remaking the region and U.S. policy for years to come. Regimes have been pushed out leaving an unsettled landscape in one of the… Continue reading
Feb 03 Watch Turmoil Grips Egypt as Mubarak Plots Next Move Chaos continued to escalate in Egypt as President Hosni Mubarak told ABC News that stepping down now would create further turmoil. Judy Woodruff has more with Steve Clemons of the New America Foundation, Samer Shehata of Georgetown University and Steven… Continue watching
Feb 03 Watch 'Great Sense of Threat and Menace' in Egypt's Chaos Margaret Warner, newly arrived in Cairo, gives her assessment of events on the ground in Egypt as thugs, who many believe are linked to the government, attack protestors, journalists and Westerners. Continue watching