French parliament adopts ban on full-face veil
PARIS: The French parliament passed a law Tuesday prohibiting wearing a full-face veil in public, meaning a ban will come into force early next year if it is not overturned…
Palm Hills falls on legal case report
CAIRO: Egypt's Palm Hills had fallen in midday trade on Wednesday by as much as 5.6 percent, following a newspaper report that a legal case had been filed contesting one…
Muslim Americans have a history before 9/11
NEW YORK, New York: I live in Harlem on a street that is home to three churches and a mosque. The mosque is next door to one of those churches…
Jon Stewart, Fox News and Park51
NEW YORK, New York: It was September 2002, one year after the September 11 attacks. I was boarding a flight from Cairo to New York to start my new life…
Can the Millennium Development Goals be saved?
NEW DELHI: The target date for fulfilling the Millennium Development Goals is 2015, and the world knows it is not on course to meet those goals. So world leaders are…
Killing the cures
BOSTON: Biodiversity is essential for the functioning of ecosystems – from forests and fresh waters to coral reefs, soils, and even the atmosphere — that sustain all life on Earth.…
Court adjourns Van Gogh theft trial to Sept. 28
CAIRO: The Dokki Misdemeanor Court adjourned the Van Gogh painting theft trial to Sept. 28. The main defendant, deputy culture minister Mohsen Shaalan, was to remain in custody and a…
ICLD employees resume sit-in after unfulfilled pay pledges
CAIRO: Information Centers for Local Development (ICLD) workers were back on the street Tuesday protesting the government’s failure to uphold pay increase pledges. “The government created these centers to address…
Mideast leaders meet with Clinton in second round of peace talks
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton met the Israeli and Palestinian leaders on Thursday in a bid to a stop a rift over Jewish settlements from derailing fledgling…
Cairo’s very own TimeOut guide
Very few sites tipped off the visit of comic book author Jim Lee to Cairo, and to his book signing at Kotob Khan on September 3. And few know of…