Sesame Street comes to Afghanistan
US children's television favorite Sesame Street came to Afghanistan this week with the launch of a new series featuring familiar characters like Elmo and Big Bird. "Baghch-e-Simsim" made its debut…
Buttered Up: Half-browned rice – a family tradition
When my mother is in the kitchen, she likes to talk about my grandmother; I don't think she realizes that it has become a pattern. As she stirs, today a…
War of the roses
By Myriam Ghattas "La Guerre est Déclarée" (Declaration of War, 2011) is the story of a young couple: Romeo (Jérémie Elkaïm) and Juliette (Valérie Donzelli) find out that their son Adam…
Feared ‘baltagia’ thugs absent from polls
CAIRO: "Baltagia, baltagia," were words that once struck fear into the hearts of Egyptians trying to vote in elections under Hosni Mubarak, as they heralded the arrival of hired thugs…
Egypt awaits poll results, Tahrir protest starts
By Marwa Awad and Tamim Elyan /Reuters CAIRO: Egypt will hear the results of elections which Islamist parties expect to win on Friday, and protesters gathered at a rally to remember…
Focus on religion was ‘grave mistake’ by political parties, expert says
CAIRO: Egypt’s political parties made a "grave mistake" by focusing on religion while campaigning ahead of parliamentary elections, said Mazen Hassan, professor of electoral systems at Cairo University. Developmental issues…
Election monitoring coalition reports minor violations; says Egypt wins ‘electoral battle’
CAIRO: Despite minor violations, the Egyptian people were the clear winners of the electoral battle, a coalition of election monitoring organizations said Thursday. Magdy Abdel-Hamid, coordinator of the Independent Coalition…
Lawyer demands investigation into teargas used against protesters
CAIRO: A lawyer filed a request with Egypt’s Prosecutor General to investigate the nature of the teargas used by police against protesters in and near Tahrir Square last week, in…
Statue of Egyptian king Amenhotep III found
CAIRO: Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed a large statue of king Amenhotep III who ruled nearly 3,400 years ago and who was the grandfather of the famed boy-pharaoh Tutankhamun. The Supreme…
No new charges raised against detained activist, says lawyer
CAIRO: State Security Prosecution has not raised any new charges against detained activist Alaa Abdel-Fattah in the Maspero case, lawyer Ragia Omran told Daily News Egypt. Omran on Thursday denied…