A KHAWAGA'S TALE: Point and shoot: the Cairo Camera Club
Photography is the basic human art form; it is part of being human. We didn't learn to point and shoot, cameras just come naturally. It is as though we learned…
Reflections: Bread or freedom?
A good offence is the best defense, as we all learnt yesterday. As I drove through Talaat Harb square at around 9 am, the scene looked all too familiar: at…
Toward building peace
I was eating breakfast one morning when my father slapped down the New York Times Magazine in front of me. You might want to check out this article. I believe…
Ignoring Al-Jazeera
It appears that Israel is taking a page from the George W. Bush book of public diplomacy: attempting to influence coverage by Arab media by boycotting the most influential television…
Bush's New Middle East
President George W. Bush's declaration of "mission accomplished in Iraq five years ago was as hubristic as his current assessment that the "surge has "delivered a major strategic victory in…
Word On The Street: Egyptians speak out on general strike
CAIRO: With an announced strike, Sunday morning began as a somewhat slower day in Cairo. On Saturday government news sources warned citizens of participating in protests citing heavy penalties. Small…
PA turns down request to privatize Cairo stadium
CAIRO: The People's Assembly (PA) turned down a request recently filed by the government to privatize Cairo International Stadium, Mohamed Khalil Kwaitah, MP affiliated with the National Democratic Party (NDP),…
Sports Talk: Stadiums safe and secure
Egypt s path to the 2010 World Cup has been made slightly easier after FIFA warned the DR Congo, a country in our group of preliminary qualifiers, that it may…
Arabs, Muslims battle US, Europeans over free speech at UN
GENEVA: Arab and Muslim countries defended Tuesday a resolution they pushed through at the United Nations to have the body s expert on free speech police individuals and news media…