The Group of 8 and its representing finance ministers have increased its pledge of $20 billion to $38 billion in order to assist the countries of Egypt and Tunisia now joined by Jordan and Morocco at a meeting in the French city of Marseilles attended by numerous representatives from organizations and countries such as the International Monetary Fund, the Arab League,...

Why is the Tunisian revolution, the source of inspiration for the Arab World Revolution and a symbol for the entire world, called the Jasmine Revolution? The Jasmine Revolution is the term used to refer to the demonstrations in Tunisia. The cause of the demonstrations is still being analyzed. Some media report they were triggered by decades of oppression, unemployment,...

Last month, a van Gogh painting made out to be worth up to 50 million USD was stolen from the Mohamed Mahmoud Khalil Museum in Cairo, Egypt. The Egyptian authorities have shifted the blame of the theft around the table a couple of times already. First, Egypt’s interior ministry blamed the ‘lax security’ of the museum and scurried around trying to...

Yes, we all know Google doesn’t have some kind of holiday-doodle for today, but today is still the 90th anniversary of the day when the 19th Amendement of the Constitution was ratified awarding female, American suffragists in the 20th century. As America began to put the horrors of World War One behind it, President Wilson urged Congressmen to support the...