Middle East Economic Survey

VOL. LII

No 23

8-Jun-2009

Obama Tells Muslim World Education, Innovation Keys To Progress

US President Barack Obama, in a much heralded speech to the Muslim world, said on 4 June that there need be no contradiction between development and progress. He paid tribute to Cairo where he made this speech as encapsulating this idea. For over a thousand years, Al-Azhar has stood as a beacon of Islamic learning, and for over a century, Cairo University has been a source of...