HRW calls for release of Coptic blogger
CAIRO: Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Egyptian authorities to immediately release Hany Nazeer, the Coptic blogger detained since October 2008 under the emergency law. Despite an April 3, 2010…
Female judges to oversee Shoura elections
CAIRO: Head of Cairo Cassation Court and the Higher Electoral Commission judge Entisar Niseem announced Saturday that female judges and their counterparts in the administrative prosecution will participate in monitoring…
55 killed in Darfur border clashes, says tribal chief
KHARTOUM: At least 55 people were killed and 85 wounded in fighting between the south Sudan army and Arab nomads from the western region of Darfur, a tribal chief said…
Obama and the Muslim World: A year after Cairo
CAIRO: More than three decades ago Jacques Ellul, the French moral philosopher and sociologist argued that the development and impact of mass media revolutionizes politics in a negative sense, because…
Emerging markets reshaping economic order, says report
CAIRO: Western businesses, once the unquestioned leaders in global capitalism, are finding their position increasingly challenged by their rivals in emerging markets, according to a recent report. Adrian Wooldridge, managing…
Hamas broadcasts cartoon about captured Israeli soldier
GAZA CITY: The armed wing of the Islamist Hamas movement on Sunday broadcast a grim cartoon warning Israel over the fate of the captured soldier for whom it has demanded…
49 percent of Egyptians reject property tax
CAIRO: A poll conducted by the Public Opinion Poll Center on the new property tax, revealed that the majority of Egyptians have heard of the new tax, but that almost…
Al-Qaeda in Iraq confirms deaths of top two commanders, says SITE
BAGHDAD: Al-Qaeda has confirmed the deaths of its top two Iraq commanders in a joint US-Iraqi military raid, a US monitoring group said, days after a wave of apparent revenge…
Experts see Polanski extradition in coming months
Roman Polanski's loss of a crucial California court decision sets up his return to the United States more than three decades after he fled a statutory rape charge, Swiss legal…
Love in a gift bag
The first striking thing about British artist Julie Oxenforth’s video installation at Artellewa art space is its simplicity. In contrast to the long title, “A Moving Sea between the Shores…