Chinese starlet's beach photos spark heated debate

Photos of Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi cavorting with her Western fiancé on a beach have sparked a heated online debate, with many netizens roasting her for shaming China, but others…

AFP
AFP

A KHAWAGA'S TALE: Child birth in Egypt

From the anecdotal evidence that I have gleaned over the years, I have concluded that foreigners arrive in Egypt, see the sites whilst enjoying the country's plethora of luxury resort…

Peter A. Carrigan

The dark side of self-determination

CAMBRIDGE: National self-determination seems a straightforward moral principle, but it is fraught with problems. After Russia sent troops into Georgia in August 2008, it recognized the independence of two breakaway…

Daily News Egypt

Reviving Muslim Democracy

DAKKA: As fears about the Islamization of politics in the Muslim world grow, Bangladesh, with the world's fourth-largest Muslim population (126 million), has moved dramatically in the opposite direction. Bangladesh…

Daily News Egypt

America, Egypt, and the burial of Gaza

In his 1846 short story "The Cask of Amontillado, Edgar Allen Poe recounts the story of Montresor, who, seething from years of slights, kills his friend Fortunato by burying him…

Daily News Egypt

11 journalists seek legal action against police

CAIRO: Eleven reporters, supported by the Hisham Mubarak Center for Human Rights, have called on the Prosecutor General to investigate the brutality they were subjected to while covering the Dec.…

Manar Ammar

Security forces turn back Gaza solidarity convoy

RAFAH/CAIRO: A solidarity convoy to Rafah was turned back Friday by security forces before reaching Al-Arish. The convoy was able to get that far only by staging sit-ins at police…

Daily News Egypt

11 Arab doctors cross into Gaza from Egypt

GAZA CITY: Eleven Arab doctors crossed into the Gaza Strip from Egypt late Friday to treat Palestinians wounded in Israel's punishing two-week-old offensive in the Hamas-ruled territory.The doctors crossed at…

AFP
AFP

Fadl announces Ismaili departure

ISMAILIYA: Without revealing his destination, Ismaili striker Mohamed Fadl confirmed that he will be leaving the club when his contract expires at the end of the current season.The former Ahly…

Amro Hassan

Olympic reveal Ahly's interest in Al-Belqasi

CAIRO: Olympic president Ahmed Al-Sweisi said that Ahly are interested in buying club defender Ateya Al-Belqasi during the ongoing transfer window."A number of intermediate agents contacted the club about the…

Amro Hassan