Musings: Back to the roots
For the past 50 years, Egyptian and foreign intellectuals and researchers have been accustomed to classifying intellectual and political currents in Egypt into four main categories: Islamists, nationalists (aka Nasserites),…
Sail the Nile campaign finally docks
CAIRO: After 45 days sailing up the Nile, eight weather beaten boats came to anchor at El-Gezira gardens in Zamalek. The events of Sail the Nile 2008 were drawing to…
Muslim Americans speak out in the 'Hijabi Monologues'
CAIRO: One of the defining features of modern times is a mania for public confession: from Bill Clinton's televised broadcast in 1998 telling the world what it already knew about…
Three students die in Egypt university stampede: security
CAIRO: Three students were crushed to death and another seven injured on Saturday as they attempted to escape a lecture theater after news spread of a fire at their Nile…
Fired workers demonstrate outside Workers' Union
CAIRO: Jobless and penniless, eight men held a demonstration in front of the Workers Union yesterday Jan. 9. The eight men, who have been jobless for three months, were sacked…
Sports Talk: Mind your manners
It is pure joy to watch one of our own go from great to greater. Egypt s Amr Shabana in Bermuda this week won the final of the Endurance World…
Fairytales mix with blurred reality
It s clear through the first scenes of Seachd: The Inaccessible Pinnacle that the relationship between the two main characters Aonhgas and his grandfather have deteriorated over the years. Tension…
Prime Minister: Egypt to scrap antiquated subsidies program
CAIRO: Egypt plans to do away with its antiquated subsidies program, the prime minister said Thursday, but the country s president of 26 years opposed the move, suggesting it would…
Prison didn't change me: Kareem Amer
CAIRO: Without a personal computer and through Internet cafés, 22-year-old Al-Azhar University student Abdel Kareem Nabil Soliman, known as Kareem Amer, created a blog under the name "Kareem Amer. The…