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Naguib Mahfouz, the cafe denizen who became the first Arab author to
be awarded the Nobel Prize in literature – for novels that evoked
the scent, color and texture of life in the streets of his native
Cairo – died Wednesday.
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Each Tuesday, thousands of people arrive here at dusk by car and bus.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Friday that she was
sure the Bush administration had made “thousands” of tactical errors
in Iraq, but defended the decision to oust Saddam Hussein and said
she thought it would be vindicated by history.
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In what appears to be a major turnaround in policy, Iran’s national
security chief announced Thursday that his government intended to
name a team of negotiators to hold direct talks with the United
States on the subject of calming civil strife in Iraq.
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In spite of the hostile rhetoric in recent days over Iran’s nuclear
ambitions, the Islamic Republic may be losing its long-standing
reluctance to speak directly with the United States, politicians and
analysts here say.
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Iran’s supreme leader vowed Thursday to “resist any pressure and
threat” after an international panel stuck with its decision to put
the issue of his nation’s nuclear program before the
U.N. Security Council.
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Asadollah Habari did not vote for conservative President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad, and does not see himself as an ideological hard-liner.
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Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Sunday said his country stood ready
to increase the scale of its uranium enrichment if its nuclear
program was formally put before the United Nations Security Council
this week.
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The British House of Commons on Wednesday approved a toughened
anti-terrorism law, with Prime Minister Tony Blair holding back
rebels in his Labor Party to make the “glorification” of terrorism a crime.
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