Jose wonders if he's the worst coach in Egypt
YOKOHAMA: Ahly coach Manuel Jose said that the press turned him into the "worst coach in Egypt, following Ahly s 4-2 Club World Cup defeat to Pachuca. Now I am…
Abou-Trika proud of exceptional generation
YOKOHAMA: Mohamed Abou-Trika is proud to be part of Ahly s current generation as he hopes the Reds can reclaim their status against Adelaide United on Thursday.Ahly succumbed to a…
Lawyer calls for disqualification of two candidates in syndicate's elections
CAIRO: Controversy continues to loom over this year's Lawyers' Syndicate elections, as a request filed to Judge Farouk Sultan, head of the South Cairo Court that monitors the elections, called…
Emergency State Security Court annuls Quranist detention order
CAIRO: The detention order issued against Reda Abdel Rahman, a Quranist blogger arrested in late October has been quashed by the Emergency State Security Court.Adel Ramadan, a lawyer with the…
Teenage girl dies of bird flu in Assiut
CAIRO: A 16-year-old Egyptian girl has died of bird flu, bringing the number of deaths from the disease in the north African nation to 23, the highest outside Asia, the…
Special Series: Education: Long way ahead for higher education, say experts
CAIRO: With thanaweya amma stealing the spotlight throughout the academic year, little attention is given to higher education, which suffers from lack of proper facilities, qualified faculty and overcrowding among…
Shoe-mania takes over the internet
CAIRO: In less than 48 hours following Iraqi journalist Muntazar Al-Zaidi's attempt to hit US President George W. Bush with a pair of shoes, hundreds of Facebook groups and pages…
Bush and the flying shoes
CAIRO: Many many years ago, in Tangiers, before I had become a Muslim or understood much if anything about Muslim ways, I was sitting at a traditional outdoor Arab café,…
Obama's Middle East
JERUSALEM: President-elect Barack Obama's plans for the Middle East, the region where his predecessor's policies shattered America's standing around the world as a benign superpower, represent a welcome departure from…
