Oil exports to hit $12 billion next year
Egypt s oil exports will hit as much as $12 billion in the coming year, said Minister of Petroleum Sameh Fahmy on Monday during his speech at a labor rally…
Heat wave distracts from street theater festival
In many European and American cities, the summer season means one thing - outdoor festivals. Mimes and musicians perform on the sidewalk in busy beach towns; large concerts are held…
Regional conflicts join up in Lebanon
In recent years I and others have been warning that the growing number of conflicts in the Middle East is pushing the region toward new forms of radicalism and trouble.…
Looking back, the Iraq Study Group report is worse than we thought
Not everything dies when it should, and the report of the Iraq Study Group, released late last year, is a grim example. Even at the time it was issued, it…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Rome zoo breeds rare Egyptian tortoises from parents smuggled from Libya
LIBYA: Rome s main zoo has successfully bred several rare Egyptian tortoises whose parents were rescued from a smuggler s suitcase in 2005, officials said.The first egg hatched in April,…
