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Jeffrey Fleishman, Bureau Chief
Jeffrey Fleishman joined the Times in 2002 as Berlin bureau chief. He has covered wars in Kosovo and Iraq and has traveled extensively through Europe and the Middle East. He is a former Nieman Fellow at Harvard University and was a 1997 Pulitzer Prize finalist for a story he wrote accompanying 15 Buddhist monks and nuns on their escape trek across the Himalayas and out of Tibet. Before joining the Times, he was a European correspondent based in Rome for the Philadelphia Inquirer. He moved to Cairo in summer 2007. EMAILDISPATCH FROM CAIRO
'Mubarak has kept us so distracted by trying to earn a living that we have time or energy for nothing else,' says one. 'We've lost a younger generation of leftists.'
ISLAM IN A NEW WORLD
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology will feature coed classes, a curriculum in English and other touches seen as dangerous liberalism by Islamic fundamentalists.
'The animals come first here,' says the South African woman who runs the Abu Dhabi Wildlife Center in the United Arab Emirates.
The African Union passes a resolution at its Egypt summit urging the unapologetic president and his rivals to form a power-sharing government.
The barber was reported to the police for cursing during an argument. Turkey's president has appealed to the Saudi monarch.
COLUMN ONE
At a corner cart known for its faoul, a bean dish, customers seek sustenance and commiserate over the soaring cost of food in Egypt.
Islam in a New World
Egyptian Gamal Banna backs women's right to lead prayers and thinks clerics should adapt to modern times.
With taxi fares as much as 80 times higher than normal and other costs rising, Egyptians say they just want the Palestinians to head home.
Islam in a New World
To be the American wife of a Saudi is to forsake familiar freedoms — or enjoy them secretly — in exchange for a secure, family-centered life.
Some analysts say Tehran may feel free to interfere in the Mideast, but a few are relieved that chances of a U.S. attack have dimmed.
COLUMN ONE
Like many in Cairo, Alia Qotb ekes out a meager existence atop a building. But once, many years ago, there was a future.
DISPATCH FROM TUNIS
Tunisian Fadhel Jaibi's play traces the making of an extremist. The censor wanted 286 cuts, but Jaibi fought back.
Militancy by laborers who have split from regime-controlled unions presents President Mubarak with a widening crisis.