Government may hike prices to finance social raise, say reports
CAIRO: Egypt said it may hike fuel prices to pay for public sector wages less than two weeks after President Hosni Mubarak announced a 10 percent raise in social allowance…
Jay Leno passes the baton … but he'll be back
Three days before he walked out of a Burbank, California theater and bid farewell to "The Tonight Show, which he had hosted for 17 years, Jay Leno made one last…
Book details Khalid Mishal's rise to power
CAIRO: Few issues in global affairs polarize like the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. If one doubts this, look at the selection in any bookstore. On China or India, major global players with…
Feminism and the male brain
NEW YORK: North Americans of my generation grew up with the 1970's children's record "Free to Be...You and Me, on which Rosey Grier, an immense former football star, sang "It's…
Will global imbalances return?
BEIJING: Future history books, depending on where they are written, will take one of two approaches to assigning blame for the world's current financial and economic crisis.One approach will blame…
A letter to President Obama
CAIRO: Mr. President Barack Hussein Obama, President of the United States of America. I write this letter before your visit to my country, Egypt, on June 4. I write to…
Cairo University staff, students weigh in on Obama's visit
CAIRO: US President Barack Obama's choice of Cairo University as the venue from which to make his much-anticipated address to the Muslim world elicited different reactions from university staff and…
Al-Azhar debates joining new channel
CAIRO: Al-Azhar's Islamic Research Center is currently debating joining a private Islamic satellite channel as a board member, Mahmoud Ashour, member in the center, told Daily News Egypt.However, Ashour refuted…
Police detain foreign students at Al-Azhar
CAIRO: Many of the foreign students from Al-Azhar University who were detained by police on Friday have not been given legal representation or access to foreign diplomats, according to officials…
Al-Laithy replaces Nour as speaker at AUC student event
CAIRO: A student-organized event at the American University in Cairo (AUC) that originally featured former Ghad party leader Ayman Nour as the keynote speaker, was held Saturday with prominent journalist…