Hundreds of Gaza students blocked by Israel from studying abroad, says rights group
CAIRO: Yafa Al-Mozain, an 18-year-old student from Gaza City, spends her days surfing the Internet and watching TV while awaiting an exit permit from the Israeli authorities to leave Gaza…
The Globalization of Ethics
Many Europeans doubt that Asia can catch up with Europe in terms of regional integration. But Asia not only has the type of stable common ethical foundations that were so…
Iraq in the time of cholera
NEW YORK: It is the kind of news that everybody had been dreading. An outbreak of cholera in Iraq, which started in two Northern provinces, has already reached Baghdad and…
Bridging businesses, bridging worlds
WASHINGTON, DC: Business has often been a catalyst for cultural blending and has proven capable of having profound effects on culturally or religiously dissonant societies. Overall, interactions resulting from commercial…
Reflections: Punishing the victim
I've never met a rape victim. I've never met a woman who was kidnapped, taken at knife point to a secluded place and violated sexually 14 times by seven criminals…
Sawiris attacked at Heaven press conference, pandemonium ensues
CAIRO: The 31st Cairo International Film Festival's main sponsor Naguib Sawiris was attacked Wednesday by a journalist from the independent daily El Arabi El Nasiri newspaper who accused him of…
Ana Masry: A message of optimism and national pride
Even before Ehaab Abdou entered the hall from backstage at AUC, there were no seats left in the audience. People sat all the way up to the floor where the…
Egypt in pictures
It was a family merging of sorts in The American University in Cairo's Sony Gallery at John Feeney's "River Man photography exhibit opening. New Zealand's Feeney, who passed away this…
A not so heavenly picture
It wouldn't be an overstatement to describe the reaction that greeted Saad Hindawy's much-awaited sophomore effort "The Seventh Heaven as ecstatic. Hindawy's film was highly praised by a group of…
Software piracy may cost Middle East $180 bln in 4 years
CAIRO: It's no secret that the exponential growth of the IT industry has opened the door for illegal trade and cyber crime, and that stringent measures must be taken to…
