Inside the home of Islam Badr (1997-2008)
ALEXANDRIA: A 30-minute drive further into Alexandria's eastern outskirts and the classical 1920s architecture so typical of the old city begin to give way to more recent, plain groups of…
Mahalla workers protest factory's alleged privatization
MAHALLA EL-KOBRA: Workers from the Ghazl El-Mahalla spinning factory held a demonstration Thursday against alleged plans to sell off the Ghazl El-Mahalla company to private investors.At 3 pm some 40…
Tourism minister lashes out at popular talk show host Amr Adib
CAIRO: Minister of Tourism Zoheir Garranah engaged in an on-air verbal spat with Al-Ahram editor Ahmed Moussa and outspoken television presenter Amr Adib, when the two implied that he was…
Media and the private sector: Partnership or confrontation?
CAIRO: When a conference that initially aimed at highlighting business practices of Egyptian media turned into a battlefield between public and private-run newspapers, the audience left with one definite message…
Editorial: Egypt's murdered schoolchild: Who's responsible?
On Monday Oct. 27 the mother of 11-year-old Islam Amr Badr packed her son's lunch as usual. But as she rushed him off to school that morning nothing could have…
Europe in wonderland
BERLIN: Europe and its national governments are basking in their new capacity to act - and not without reason. Who would have dared, even a few weeks ago, to predict…
Afghanistan's dying mothers
KABUL: Today in Badakhshan, Afghanistan, for every 100,000 births, 6,500 young mothers die. This is a world record, unrivaled anywhere. In other parts of Afghanistan, too, the rates of maternal…
With a Grain of Salt: Israel's love for Arabs
Israel is an Arab-loving state with ties to several Arab countries like Egypt and Jordan with which it has forged peace agreements. It's also hoping to reach similar agreements with…
Brechtian cloak fails to fit Sophocles' tragedy
Thanks to the pioneering classic playwrights, who established one of the world's greatest dramatic traditions, Europe has enjoyed over 2000 years of theater spectatorship. So who better to perform a…
Caravan of woes
This past week saw the final installment of the Caravan of the Euro-Arab Cinema, a touring procession of movies and documentaries spread over three years, showing in various cities in…
