Former Secretary-General of the Arab League Amr Moussa told Asharq Al-Awsat that the first ten years of the current century ...

Hosni Mubarak ... began the modernisation of this ancient land. Mr Mubarak succeeded Mr Anwar Sadat, president-for-life, a week after his assassination by Islamist militants on October 6th ...

CAIRO, (AFP) - Egypt's Hosni ... 25, Mubarak seemed untouchable as president of the most populous nation in the Arab world, backed by the United States and the military from whose ranks he had emerged ...

Tamer was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal.