Teaching the next generation to make peace
BALTIMORE, Maryland: Religious leaders should advocate the spirit of God’s words, which make no distinction between color and creed and are found in all religions’ divine revelations. It is God’s…
The great depression in economic memory
PARIS: The dispute that has emerged in the United States and Europe between proponents of further government stimulus and advocates of fiscal retrenchment feels very much like a debate about…
Russia debates its future
YAROSLAVL: Russia is said by many to lack a “civil society.” But it partly makes up for this by having a rather interesting public sphere, in which serious topics do…
Talking through walls in NYC
WASHINGTON, DC: This year, on the ninth anniversary of the September 11 attacks, many Americans were scared that violence would ensue as a result of a planned Quran burning and…
Egypt opposition divided over election boycott
CAIRO: Two months away from parliamentary polls, Egypt's opposition is deeply divided between those urging a boycott because they say the vote will be "rigged" and those pushing to make…
Retrial of Hisham Talaat Moustafa adjourned till Tuesday
CAIRO: The South Cairo Criminal Court on Sunday adjourned till Tuesday the retrial of business tycoon Hisham Talaat Moustafa and former police officer Mohsen Al-Sukkari for the prosecution witnesses to…
Comments on Quran misunderstood, says Bishop Bishoy
CAIRO: Secretary of the Holy Synod and Damietta's Bishop Bishoy denied any intended insult to the Quran or to Islam, stressing that his statement about revising the Quran — which…
Health ministry pulls 14 diabetes drugs off market over heart complications concerns
CAIRO: The Ministry of Health decided to take 14 anti-diabetic drugs off the market to prevent possible health risks. The ministry stipulated in a statement issued on Saturday, that all…
Muslim nations called to resist Islamophobia
UNITED NATIONS: Muslim nations must collectively resist growing Islamophobia in the US and Europe, the head of the world's largest organization of Islamic countries told ministers from the 57 member…
Egypt approves plan to resolve TMG land dispute
CAIRO: Egypt's government said on Sunday it had approved a legal committee's plan to resolve a land row around the country's biggest listed developer's flagship project, a dispute which has…
