Meteb out for two months
CAIRO: Ahly striker Emad Meteb is set for a two-month layoff due to a nagging back problem, the league champions said. The news means that the Red Devils will be…
Social solidarity ministry joins forces with AUC to reduce poverty
CAIRO: The Ministry of Social Solidarity and the Social Research Center at the American University in Cairo (AUC) joined forces in order to alleviate poverty in the governorates of Sohag…
Rights groups denounce foreign minister's complaint against columnist
CAIRO: Human rights groups denounced Wednesday the foreign minister’s complaint before the prosecution against columnist Hamdy Qandil. Press reports said Tuesday that Qandil had already been interrogated by the prosecutor…
Does racist behavior still persist in Egypt?
CAIRO: “In the past, I fought each day in the streets, now I gave up,” Nelly told Daily News Egypt. Nelly is a 25-year-old girl from Cameroon who has lived…
Egypt moves Nile basin file to National Security Authority
CAIRO: Responsibility for the Nile issue had been taken from the Irrigation and Foreign ministries and handed over to the National Security Authority headed by Intelligence Chief Omar Suleiman when…
Would Americans cross boundaries for peace?
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida: The Mideast peace “proximity talks” are a step backward from years of direct negotiations. The ethnic Diasporas in the United States have both helped and hindered…
Palestinian football drama for social change
BETHLEHEM, West Bank: In Bethlehem’s Manger Square, under a full moon, two lovers recite Palestinian national poet Mahmoud Darwish’s words of affection and longing. Where they stand, shadows cast on…
A man against the machine
WASHINGTON, DC: America’s financial sector has shown renewed strength in recent months — political strength, that is — by undermining most of the sensible proposals for banking reform that remain…
Liberating NASA
NEW YORK: Let me disclose my biases up front: I did not dream of going into space as a child. I took it for granted. My father was a (genuine)…
Pakistan court bans Facebook over Mohammed cartoon page
LAHORE: A Pakistani court Wednesday ordered authorities to block Facebook in the country over a page encouraging users to post caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed on the site. Thousands of…
