Is a kiss still just a kiss?
LOS ANGELES: There s the flicking kiss, the ice-cream kiss, the vacuum kiss, the Hollywood kiss and another 50 or so smoochy variations.Who said a kiss was just a kiss?For…
General Assembly president urges Arabs to invest in quality education
NEW YORK: The only way for the status of women in the Arab world to improve is for the governments there to invest in quality education, the United Nations General…
Lippi to conduct workshops for Egyptian coaches
CAIRO: World Cup winning coach Marcello Lippi is scheduled to arrive in Cairo on Thursday at the request of the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) to conduct a series of workshops…
YOUTH VIEWS: Bridge over the Internet
Relations between the Middle East and the United States are undeniably strained. Evidence of this comes to us every day through the news, movies and entertainment television, and in academic…
Iraqi refugees in Egypt 'up to 80,000,' says UN official
UNITED NATIONS: Citing grim daily indicators - 100 people killed, hundreds wounded and thousands displaced - an official with the United Nations refugee agency predicted that Iraq's humanitarian crisis will…
Media watchdog cites dangerous year for journalists in annual report
CAIRO: The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) voiced grave concerns over the high numbers of journalists killed and violated last year in its annual report presented at a…
Five million infected with hepatitis C
5 million infected with Hepatitis C CAIRO: At least five million people in Egypt are infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), a new committee formed by the country's government…
At best, the US is able to contain the Iraq mess
Somehow, four years on, the debate about Iraq is still animated by wishful thinking. The White House talks as if a surge of 20,000 troops is going to stop a…
Middle Eastern freedom lags as the US turns away
CAIRO: The state of freedom overall in the Middle East declined in 2006 from the previous year, according to the findings of "Freedom in the World, the long-running annual survey…
