Khaled Hosseini to release second novel
Associated PressIt s an image that haunts Khaled Hosseini, the Afghan-born author…
Egyptian court sentences two gang leaders to death for murder, rape of 20 street children
Associated PressCAIRO: An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced to death two gang…
Bird flu strain infecting fewer wild birds
PARIS: The H5N1 strain of bird flu is infecting ever fewer wild…
Breastfeeding fatwa continues to provoke criticism
CAIRO: Religious scholars condemned the breastfeeding fatwa that Sheikh Ezzat Atiya, president…
The art of learning: college students speak out
CAIRO: After graduating high school from her hometown of Quito, Ecuador, Janan…
Egyptian Bedouins claim government denying 75,000 citizenship
CAIRO: A new survey finds that 75,000 Bedouin in Egypt do not…
Envisioning Islamic democracy
Islam is often perceived as a potential threat to democratization, and justifications…
Looking back, the Iraq Study Group report is worse than we thought
Not everything dies when it should, and the report of the Iraq…
Regional conflicts join up in Lebanon
In recent years I and others have been warning that the growing…