Much ado about the National Theater Festival
The hot summer in Cairo is coinciding with a busy cultural season: the National Theater Festival kicked off on July 1, overlapping with the Modern Dance Festival, both sponsored by…
Who will "make the world a better place" now?
WASHINGTON, DC: In the hours following Michael Jackson's death, people around the globe shared common pain, resuscitated old vinyl records stored in their basements and stayed up later than usual…
Time to bring Mahatma Gandhi back
NEW YORK: The Congress Party's unexpected landslide in India's general election was greeted with euphoria. Many believe that Congress - with its commitment to secular values, economic growth, and helping…
Achieving a "Europe of Results"
BRUSSELS: The tsunami that has swept across financial markets is a global catastrophe. If handled correctly, however, the crisis may yet raise the esteem of the European Union and its…
Egyptians see US as 'hypocritical,' says poll
CAIRO: Seventy-eight percent of Egyptians believe that the US is "hypocritical because it does not follow the international laws it promotes in other countries, a recent World Public Opinion poll…
Activists visit striking workers in Tanta factory
CAIRO: In a show of support, a delegation from the Tadamon movement visited the workers on strike at the Tanta Flax and Oil Company this week. Security forces at the…
Infant mortality rate decreasing, says CAPMAS
CAIRO: Egypt's infant mortality rate decreased by approximately 4 percent between 2006 and 2007, a recent study conducted by the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS) showed.The total…
Egypt to help German authorities with Islamophobic murder case
CAIRO: Egypt will send a state prosecutor to Germany to help with investigations into the fatal stabbing inside a Dresden courtroom of a pregnant Egyptian woman, the prosecutor general said…
Hajj, Umrah seasons kick off amidst global pandemic
CAIRO: A month after the World Health Organization (WHO) raised the H1N1 alert level to stage six, signaling a global pandemic, it remains unclear whether it will take its toll…