Election monitors slam persistent violations, critique media coverage
CAIRO: The Independent Coalition of Election Monitoring held its fourth press conference at the Journalists’ Syndicate Thursday noting “a continuation of previous violations” committed in the first two rounds. “We…
Islamists continue to reap votes in final round of PA elections
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood's political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party and the Salafi Al-Nour Party continued to sweep the polls in the third and final round of elections, according…
Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice condemn Azhar statement
CAIRO: An online group which refers to itself as the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Committee in Egypt, slammed in a statement on its Facebook page a strongly-worded…
Interrogation of members of raided local NGOs yet to start
CAIRO: While members of some of the foreign NGOs have already been questioned in relation to a recent raid for alleged “illicit finding”, interrogations have yet to begin with local…
Activists discuss power handover scenarios a la twitter
CAIRO: Instead of the June 30 date proposed by the ruling military council, power should be handed over to the elected parliament this month or presidential elections should be held…
Coptic group calls on Pope to receive no Christmas greetings
CAIRO: The Maspero Youth Union held on Wednesday a silent protest outside St. Mark Cathedral in Abaseya, calling on Pope Shenouda III and other Coptic, religious figures to receive no…
Prosecutor demands death for Mubarak, security boss
CAIRO: The prosecutor in the trial of Hosni Mubarak demanded on Thursday that the ousted Egyptian leader be sentenced to hang on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters…
Czech dissident writer Josef Skvorecky dies
Czech dissident writer and publisher Josef Skvorecky, who spent much of his life in Canada, died in Toronto on Tuesday, aged 87, CTK news agency reported. Skvorecky, who published the…
Bumper year for box office as French flock to homegrown hits
An intrepid boy reporter, a black manservant and his paralyzed aristocrat master, and French actors adrift in Hollywood helped make 2011 France's best box office year in nearly half a…
Buttered Up: Food myths and a roasted aubergine salad
We sit in the sticky tropical heat, a lone cat observing us from afar, wondering with a tilt of its head, why we have occupied her bench with our derrieres.…