Healthy habits: A look at the medical benefits of fasting
CAIRO: As Muslims, we fast for an entire month every year, abstaining from food and drink from dawn to dusk. Other faiths adopt different types of fasting ranging from total…
American Coptic Union demands US impose economic sanctions against Egypt
CAIRO: The American Coptic Union requested from the US congress to impose economic sanctions on Egypt and attacked Pope Shenouda III policies, positions and even speeches in a recent call…
Wage concessions end Mahalla strike, leave political demands unaddressed
MAHALLA EL KOBRA: The Ghazl El Mahalla workers' movement ended its week-long strike early on Saturday morning after negotiations with management and the state-controlled Egyptian Trade Union Federation yielded concessions…
Irish rocker, activist Bono gets medal for his work in Africa
Irish rocker and activist Bono, accepting the Liberty Medal on Thursday night for his humanitarian work in Africa, exhorted Americans to keep working to solve the world s problems and…
Security cracks down on Kefaya protest in support of convicted editors
CAIRO: Around 400 people took to the streets to support the editors in chief of four independent newspapers who were handed jail terms for insulting President Mubarak and other National…
Palestinians subjected to worst human rights violation, says Aboul Gheit
CAIRO: Palestinians are subjected to the worst kinds of human rights violations and the international community is unable to protect them, Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit has said.The Middle East…
Freedom House report pounds Egyptian governance
CAIRO: An annual report issued by renowned US think tank Freedom House, harshly criticizes Egypt for poor governance on a number of levels."Countries at the Crossroads 2007: Country Report -…
Avoid the masses, head to the Marriott promenade
On a chilled out Ramadan week night, going to a commercial tent may not be the ideal outing for everybody. Yet you probably don't feel like staying home night after…
HEALTH MATTERS: Football beats jogging for fitness, says study
There's good news for all the sportsmen that crowd Cairo's football fields during Ramadan. A friendly game of football works off more fat and builds up more muscle than jogging,…
Part 1: A long summer weekend in El Sahel
As summer around the Mediterranean shifts into high gear every August, the world s beautiful people and everyone else hoping to ride their coat-tails can usually - predictably - be…