Human rights come calling
What are human rights? is a question that the Cairo Human Rights Film Festival attempts to answer, hoping also to provoke a dialogue on human rights within Egypt. The gross…
Listen to Me!
SAN FRANCISCO: Last week, I wrote a 140-character hotel review on Twitter: "Galleria Park Hotel SF rejects noise complaint from ill-trained guest: 'Next time, ask for an interior room, not…
Downgrading the 2009 H1N1 influenza
BERKELEY, California: Although the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic appears to have peaked, Dr. Keiji Fukuda, the top flu expert of the World Health Organization (WHO) recently said a third…
Of bells and minarets
PARIS: When Jerusalem was conquered in 635 AD, the second caliph Omar Ibn Al-Kattab refused to pray in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, despite an invitation from the Christian…
Deep sea freediver pushes endurance to the limit
LONDON: Briton Sara Campbell is on a mission to stretch the limits of the human body - diving down into the murky ocean depths for minutes at a time, on…
Marriage registrars hold protest at People's Assembly
CAIRO: Around 200 ma'azouns, or marriage registrars, have organized a sit-in in front of the People's Assembly building in protest at the legislative authority's failure to draft a law to…
Ittihad close in on ENPPI's Saied
CAIRO: ENPPI s out-of-favor playmaker Ahmed Saied is close to signing for Ittihad, the player said on Saturday. I will sit down with Ittihad chairman Mohamed Moselhi on Monday to…
Fresco fragments returned to Egypt from France
CAIRO: The Egyptian Museum has received five ancient fresco pieces that France s Louvre Museum returned under the threat of a boycott, Egypt s antiquities chief Zahi Hawass said on…