Egypt on the brink
By David Faris In Naguib Mahfouz’s magnificent Adrift on the Nile, written just before the June War, a group of politically and socially alienated Egyptians gather on a houseboat every…
Revolution not chaos
By Rania Al Malky CAIRO: The sight of tens of thousands of Egyptians, taking to the streets, demanding their constitutional right to choose their leader was a turning point in…
Prison inmates escape amid security vacuum
By Amira Ahmed, Safaa Abdoun and Tamim Elyan CAIRO: Unspecified numbers of escaped prison inmates have reportedly reached towns and villages on the sixth day of protests against the regime…
Looters rip heads off 2 mummies at Egyptian Museum
By Maggie Michael / AP CAIRO: Would-be looters broke into Cairo's famed Egyptian Museum, ripping the heads off two mummies and damaging about 10 small artifacts before being caught and…
ElBaradei: Mubarak not listening to people with VP appointment
By Sherine El Madany / Reuters CAIRO: Egyptian activist Mohamed ElBaradei said Hosni Mubarak's appointment of a vice president and a new prime minister was useless and he had not…
Army allowed to open fire on those violating curfew, says police official
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: “The army is allowed to shoot anyone who breaks the curfew according to the law,” a police sergeant who preferred to remain anonymous told Daily News…
Solidarity protest held in Washington
By William Zeman WASHINGTON: Nearly 300 people, from a variety of backgrounds, descended on the Egyptian Embassy in Washington, DC, as well as the White House, to show their support…
Protests in Tahrir as fighter jets circle central Cairo
CAIRO: Over 40,000 protesters continued their sit-in in Tahrir Square, demanding an end to the Mubarak regime as the military continued its presence in central Cairo and throughout the…
City Center mall looted by thugs in absence of security
By Tamim Elyan CAIRO: The sirens of City Center mall in Maadi blared on Friday night as tens of armed thugs attacked the mall and looted all the stores inside.…
Neighborhood watch groups keep the peace, protect from thugs
By Abdel-Rahman Hussein and Heba Fahmy CAIRO: Gunshots were heard continuously in Heliopolis Saturday night but mainly came from neighborhood watch groups who were trying to scare would-be looters, real…