A far-off museum to save an Ethiopian tribe's soul
Women jump up in their fluffy orange cotton skirts, waggling their shoulders at men who are swift to join the dance, sporting white feathers in their hair and shepherd s…
"Blood Wedding" and the Suite Flamenca
Only art can make of tragedy an enjoyable occasion. "Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding), a tragedy written by renowned Spanish poet and writer Federico Garcia Lorca, opened at the Cairo…
Islamic limits to fighting oppression
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: Whenever terrorism strikes in Pakistan and innocent lives are lost, people wonder which Islamic injunctions the perpetrators abused to justify their acts. The North West Frontier Province of…
Israel and NATO: Between membership and partnership
MADRID: The idea of integrating Israel into NATO has frequently been advanced as bait to encourage the Jewish state to make the necessary concessions for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. And…
Overcoming the Copenhagen failure
NEW YORK: Pretty speeches can take you only so far. A month after the Copenhagen climate conference, it is clear that the world's leaders were unable to translate rhetoric about…
Coptic protestors clash with security forces following Qena shooting
CAIRO: Security forces clashed with over 2,000 Egyptian Copts Thursday enraged by the murder of six Copts in a drive-by shooting Wednesday night in Nagaa Hammadi, a city in the…
A silver lining in the Copenhagen failure?
CAIRO: For many, reading another article about the United Nation's climate summit in Copenhagen is like hearing about a dozen new H1N1 cases or stumbling upon a talk show hashing…
Egypt's swine flu death toll reaches 172
CAIRO: The Egyptian Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday the death of 10 swine flu cases, raising Egypt's H1N1 tally to 172. The most recent deaths, according the ministry, are…
Court fines, imprisons journalists for defamation in homosexuality scandal
CAIRO: The Sayeda Zeinab Misdemeanors Court sentenced the editor-in-chief of tabloid Al-Balagh Al-Gadid, Abdou El Maghraby, and editor Ehab El Agamy for one year in prison and a LE 40,000…