Morgan Stanley says plans to open office in Egypt
Investment bank Morgan Stanley said on Wednesday it plans to open an office in the Egyptian capital Cairo after it obtains regulatory approvals. As we continue to grow our business…
Khaled Hosseini to release second novel
Associated PressIt s an image that haunts Khaled Hosseini, the Afghan-born author whose debut novel, The Kite Runner, has become an international best seller.A bourqa-clad woman is led into a…
Egyptian court sentences two gang leaders to death for murder, rape of 20 street children
Associated PressCAIRO: An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced to death two gang leaders who had confessed to the murder and rape of 20 street children, court officials said. Ringleaders Ramadan…
Bird flu strain infecting fewer wild birds
PARIS: The H5N1 strain of bird flu is infecting ever fewer wild birds, indicating it may be dying out in the wild though not in domestic birds, the World Organisation…
Breastfeeding fatwa continues to provoke criticism
CAIRO: Religious scholars condemned the breastfeeding fatwa that Sheikh Ezzat Atiya, president of the Hadith (Prophet Mohamed's (PBUH) Sayings) department at Al-Azhar University, issued last week.Atiya had drawn on Islamic…
The art of learning: college students speak out
CAIRO: After graduating high school from her hometown of Quito, Ecuador, Janan Delgado moved to Cairo to study Arabic. From her adolescence, Janan knew she was different because of her…
Egyptian Bedouins claim government denying 75,000 citizenship
CAIRO: A new survey finds that 75,000 Bedouin in Egypt do not hold Egyptian citizenship, according to reports by All Headline News (AHN). The government granted some of the Sinai…
Envisioning Islamic democracy
Islam is often perceived as a potential threat to democratization, and justifications for this view tend to repeat ad nauseam the idea that for Islam, there is no separation between…
