Pharaohs were the rulers of ancient Egypt.

China s economic ties to Burma s rulers are strategically important for both sides.

With our rulers it would be better for us to become either another federation of Russia or a district of China

The ongoing conflict between Iran s rulers and the Iranian public is the result of a head on collision between two contradictory forces.

The regime s ideology, after all, places the state and loyalty to the rulers ahead of private property and merit.

Even the US must reconsider its regional policy, which has long depended on alliances with despotic Sunni rulers.

In the Palais Bahia, we saw a dozen cats gathered together in the courtyard clearly they were the true rulers of the place.

The glorious natural beauty of Central Asia is breathing some fresh air into the region's international reputation, so often sullied by the authoritarian rulers who hold power there.

Papandreou s move also exposes the fatal flaw of grand plans for a political or fiscal union to support the euro the people, not governments, remain the real sovereign.

Years of political transformation, domination, invasion and war between Arab, Persian, Ottoman and Russian rulers have left little physical trace of the early history of this city.

To speed the process, a new long term strategy aimed at the underlying factors at work in North Korea and in relations with its rulers is needed.

The so called Varangian tribe leaders (coming from the territories of modern Sweden and Norway) had a knack for good governance, and they were enormously helpful in Old Rus, the story goes.

But the affinity between Islamic attitudes, rulers, merchants, and craftsmen that made Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, and Samarkand jewels of High Medieval urban civilization vanished long ago.

ISTANBUL The ongoing showdown in Egypt between the country s Islamists and its military rulers is a clear reminder of how difficult democratic transitions in the Arab world are likely to be.

But there is a strong belief across the region that the costs of removing autocracies, as high as they might be, are low compared to the damage inflicted by the current rulers.

The bad news is that Europe s feebleness and America s fatigue might also signal the limits of noble ideas such as the obligation to interfere in order to protect populations being brutalized by their own rulers.

Indeed, the very foundation of Iraq was based on victors justice the British Empire, having vanquished the Ottomans, made the Sunni Arabs overlords in a country in which they were a minority.

Nor did I ever believe that the former president was stupid a criticism leveled at him by many of his European peers who were themselves hardly philosopher kings.

While Iraq an attempt to import democracy by force is failing, the paradoxical conditions of an Arab democracy under Israeli occupation may be a threat that Arab rulers have not yet comprehended.

Russia's first rulers were Nordic princes in the 860's, men invited to bring order to the country even then, or so it seems, Russians didn't trust themselves to rule themselves effectively.

Egypt s history is replete with powerful and famous rulers (starting with Ramses II in pharaonic times, and including Saladin, Muhammad Ali, Napoleon Bonaparte, Lord Cromer, all the way up to the Egyptian military trio of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar El Sadat, and Mubarak).