A notorious absentee in the US presidential campaign
NEW YORK: The US presidential campaign has been waged with unusual vigor and energy from Senators Barak Obama and John McCain, its two main contestants. They have both been very…
Confronting Fear
WASHINGTON, DC: Even as the squeeze in interbank lending has started to ease after the rescue of financial systems across the advanced countries, falling economic indicators have sent stock markets…
Pope Shenouda: representative of Egypt's Copts
CAIRO: P?ope Shenouda III returned from the United States after four months of medical treatment at Cleveland Clinic. During his time in hospital, church affairs and to a large extent,…
Egypt doctor's Saudi lashing 'worse than death,' says syndicate
CAIRO: The Doctors' Syndicate on Wednesday slammed as "worse than death a punishment of 1,500 lashes handed down by a Saudi court to an Egyptian doctor for allegedly turning a…
3 killed, 5 injured in Giza building collapse
CAIRO: Three were killed and five injured when a rundown building in Giza partially collapsed Wednesday morning. The collapse was attributed to the dilapidated state of the building, one of…
Do we need "A Common Word"?
CAMBRIDGE: Sheikh Ali Gomaa, Grand Mufti of Egypt, spoke at Churchill College, Cambridge University on Oct.12. The gathering was organized by the Radical Middle Way, a Muslim grassroots initiative articulating…
UN peacekeeping medals awarded to UNAMID forces in north Darfur
El Fasher: The AU-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) awarded UN Peacekeeping medals to its Force Headquarters staff officers and contingents deployed in El Fasher on Oct. 29, in acknowledgement…
Lawyer to appeal sentence of landmark harassment case
CAIRO: In a bizarre twist to the verdict on the first sexual harassment case in Egypt, a lawyer claiming to have represented Noha Roushdy in the case has stated that…
TV anchor Mahmoud Saad calls on education minister to step down
CAIRO: On his talk show "El-Beit Beitak Wednesday, renowned journalist and TV host Mahmoud Saad called on the Minister of Education to step down in reaction to the death of…
AUC faculty protest colleague's detainment
CAIRO: The faculty of the Arabic Language Institute (ALI) at the American University in Cairo (AUC) staged a sit-in Monday, in support of Ihab Atta, one of the department's professors…