Exploring calligraphy
Everyone calls me Layla Al Gamila (Beautiful Layla). I have told no one my secret of Quran Green, actress Dalia El-Guindy announced in the Howard Theater, "but this is not…
THE REEL ESTATE: Days of Being Wild
I still retain from my childhood a great anxiety, and the movies are bound up with an anxiety, with an idea of something clandestine, said François Truffaut.It's the Cannes Film…
Muslims oppose honor for Israel at Turin book fair
ROME: Muslim intellectuals opposed to the choice of Israel as the guest of honor at this year's book fair in the northern Italian city of Turin launched a seminar Monday…
In Focus: A new social contract
The best outcome of the May 4 Strike is that it has re-established the relationship between the citizen and the state in Egypt. I think the main advantage of this…
Telling Wright from Wrong
What was he thinking?How can Barack Obama's pastor of 20 years, the fiery Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a man of golden tongue and lofty ideals, shove his own candidate to the…
A human rights crime in Gaza
The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world…
Cabinet's magic formulas
I car-pooled in to work with my colleague Sarah El-Sirgany yesterday morning. "Let's hit the gas station, shall we? she said. We were adamant to find out first hand about…
Smokers won't quit but they might shift
CAIRO: After a period of relative stability, cigarettes will now be sold at higher prices as part of the newly declared price hikes the government instituted to finance public sector…
Pope Shenouda heads to US for treatment
CAIRO: The head of Egypt's Coptic Orthodox Church, Pope Shenouda III, has left for the United States for medical treatment, the Coptic Orthodox Lay Council which manages the church's affairs…
Word on the Street: What people think about the new prices increase
CAIRO: On Monday May 5, Ahmed Ezz, head of the ruling National Democratic Party's (NDP) logistics committee, announced a series of price increases aimed at paying for the public-sector pay…