Regimes change, national interests remain the same
It is February 2011. Barack Hussein Obama is beginning the third year of his first term as president of the United States. Mir Hossein Mousavi has begun the second year…
Mourning becomes connected
PALO ALTO: My close friend Kris Olson died last week. It wasn't after a long illness, or even after a car crash. She just went to bed at home one…
Policing the Arab minority: from alienation to cooperation
LEHAVIM, Israel: Relations between the Israeli police and the Arab citizens of Israel have been a major concern in recent years, especially following the events of October 2000 when during…
Judges contest decision to bar female judges from State Council
CAIRO: The procedures to appoint female judges (2008 and 2009 graduates) who successfully applied for a seat in the State Council, will continue, announced Mohamed El-Husseini, head of Egypt's State…
Sinai Bedouins condemn negative media images
CAIRO: Representatives of the Bedouin tribes in North Sinai held a press conference Monday evening to respond to what they deemed was negative coverage by the foreign press.Organized by the…
Medicine pricing case adjourned
CAIRO: The Administrative Court yesterday adjourned hearings in the case raised against a decree which radically altered the way medicines are priced.The Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) lodged a…
Arrested synagogue attacker a mentally ill drug addict, says Interior Ministry
CAIRO: The Interior Ministry announced yesterday afternoon that police officers have apprehended a man responsible for what it described as a "threatening incident targeting Cairo's Adly Street Synagogue.On Sunday witnesses…
Capello arranges South American ref for friendly
WEMBLEY, England: Paraguayan referee Carlos Manuel Torres will take charge of England's friendly with Egypt at Wembley on March 3 as coach Fabio Capello looks to gets his World Cup…
Egypt court jails five Muslims for life for killing Copts
CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Monday sentenced five Muslims to life in prison for killing two Christian men in a family blood-feud in Upper Egypt, a judicial source said.The court…
