Al-Azhar dismisses breastfeeding fatwa Sheikh
CAIRO: Sheikh Ezzat Attiya, chairman of the hadith department at Al-Azhar University was dismissed from his faculty position yesterday following the completion of the disciplinary committee investigation into his highly…
WORD ON THE STREET: People sound out about the rape scene in Ramadan serial
CAIRO: A violent rape scene shown in an episode of a television drama on the second day of Ramadan immediately caused a stir. Not only was the scene a first…
European Fatwa Council to issue fatwa against Al-Qaeda death threat against cartoonist, editor under police protection
CAIRO/STOCKHOLM: Dublin-based European Fatwa Council will issue a fatwa against a death threat allegedly made by the Iraqi Al-Qaeda-affiliate Sheikh Abu Omar Al-Baghdadi against Lars Vilks and Ulf Johansson, the…
Sheikh sues prominent rights organization for libel, defamation
CAIRO: Sheikh Youssef El Badry filed a lawsuit against the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRInfo), accusing the organization of defamation and libel for supporting poet Ahmed Abdel Moeti…
It's not a clash between Christians and Muslims
It is important to emphasize at the outset that the wars and conflicts of our time that happen to involve Christians and Muslims have very little to do with their…
Retiring Mugabe
At least for purposes of public consumption, southern Africa's political leaders continue to stand by Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, despite his country's ever-deepening economic crisis, which is directly attributable to…
My first Jewish wedding
A week ago I was invited to a Jewish wedding. As a Palestinian from East Jerusalem, this would have been my first, and I was ambivalent about attending the ceremony.…
"From the Euphrates to Guadalquivir"
The Musica Antigua Quintet will kick off the Arab-Andalusian music festival tomorrow, which promises to be one of the highlights of Ramadan's cultural scene. The Embassy of Spain, the French…
THE REEL ESTATE: Nostalgia for the good old days of TV dramas
Nearly every Egyptian, at some point of his/her life, has been infected with a heavy dose of local soap operas. But it wasn t always a matter of choosing between…
AAIB launches "We Owe it to Egypt" Foundation
CAIRO: Arab African International Bank (AAIB) launched the "We Owe It to Egypt Foundation, with a goal to enact a nationwide initiative to mobilize the public towards making fundamental and…
