Sacked Brotherhood youths consider next move
CAIRO: A group of Muslim Brotherhood (MB) youths recently sacked for forming a new political party are yet to decide their next move, dismissed member Mohamed Abbas told Daily News…
Armed forces, police raid Tahrir Square
CAIRO: Members of the armed forces and central security police raided Tahrir Square on Monday afternoon, bringing down the tents, forcing protesters to end their open sit-in, and allowing the…
Tunisian Islamist leader calls for unity in transitional phase
CAIRO: Rashid Al-Ghannushi, head of the Renaissance Party, an Islamist Tunisian party, highlighted the need for harmony and unity during this transitional phase in Egypt and Tunisia, calling on Islamists…
Study names Cairo ‘world’s most 24-hour city’
CAIRO: Cairo, the strife-torn capital of Egypt, was named “the world’s most 24-hour city” by a global study of the planet’s most round-the-clock metropolises. The first global ranking of the…
Climate change as a business problem
By G. Truett Tate LONDON: Some political problems can be solved overnight; others take years to tackle. But, in the distant future, when the financial crisis and the euro’s troubles are…
Libya rebels round up pro-Qaddafi cell
BENGHAZI: Libyan rebels rounded up at least 63 people suspected of murdering their military chief and having links to Moammer Qaddafi, after an hours-long battle in their eastern stronghold of…
The new grammar of power
By Javier Solana and Daniel Innerarity MADRID: Humanity’s main concerns today are not so much concrete evils as indeterminate threats. We are not worried by visible dangers, but by vague ones…
Ambushed in Tahrir Square
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: Harry Potter fans revere the wisdom of Professor Albus Dumbledore, headmaster at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and Supreme Mugwump of the International Confederation of Wizards.…
Salafobia
By Khalil Al-Anani The new boogeyman of Egyptian politics is Salafism. A false assumption has been fabricated by Egypt’s liberal and secular currents who tend to exclude Islamists, particularly Salafis, from…
Poll explores Egyptians’ views on presidency, parliament and foreign relations
CAIRO: Twenty-seven percent of Egyptians have said that a Muslim Brotherhood majority in parliament “would be a good thing,” according to a poll by Newsweek and Daily Beast conducted by…