Pope honors Mother Teresa in Christmas meal with poor
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday shared a Christmas dinner with 250 impoverished people to mark 100 years since the birth of Catholic missionary Mother Teresa, the Vatican said.…
Gomaa, Gaafar relish derby contest
CAIRO: Ahly defense star Wael Gomaa explained how he intends to keep Zamalek striker Ahmed Gaafar at bay ahead of this week’s Cairo derby clash. “There is a basic rule…
Church to send Christmas invitations to only top 3 Egyptian officials
CAIRO: Coptic Orthodox Bishop Sergious Sergious, the deputy of the Saint Mark Cathedral, said the church will only send official invitations for the Jan. 7 Coptic Christmas celebration to President…
Ahly fined for chants against Shikabala
CAIRO: Ahly have been handed an LE 10,000 fine by the Egyptian FA after their fans verbally abused Zamalek wizard Shikabala following a league game last week. The Red Devils'…
YEAREND SPECIAL: A yearend retrospective on Badr’s reign as education minister
By Safaa Abdoun CAIRO: In the beginning of 2010, a presidential decree appointed Ahmed Zaki Badr as the new Minister of Education — a ministry that is often closely followed by…
We need peace in the Middle East, not just process
By Desmond Tutu and Jimmy Carter For nearly two decades, there have been peace processes in the Middle East but no peace. In recent visits to the region including Israel and…
New wave nationalism
By Dominique Moisi PARIS: Could the world be on the verge of a new period of re-ordering itself, similar to the one experienced nearly 20 years ago? In the 1990s, the…
Turkey-Israel: searching for a magic formula
By Soli Ozel The deadly forest fire on Mount Carmel presented a timely opportunity for the Turkish and Israeli governments to climb down from their crisis mode and look for an…
Disaster Politics
By Peter Lagerquist Among organizations and people who make emergency relief their business, it has long been a truism that natural disasters are in the final analysis not nature-made. Nature throws…
Hungry Chinese collectors dominate Paris auctions
Chinese collectors with cash to burn dominated Paris auctions in December, displaying a ravenous appetite for pieces from the country's imperial days with a focus as much on investment as…