Tag: religion

Why do Islamists hate Valentine’s Day?

By Nervana Mahmoud “Valentine’s Day represents for the Christians, a celebration of…

Daily News Egypt

The legacy of Sufi poet Omar Ibn El-Farid

Ibn El-Farid is one of the greatest Egyptian mystic poets

Abdel-Rahman Sherief

Photo Gallery: Saint Samaan church

  Photos by Abdel Rahman Sherif

Daily News Egypt

Prophet’s birthday doll: gimmick or shift in culture?

Celebrations of the Prophet’s Muhammad’s birthday are purely cultural

Daily News Egypt

Saturday Hadra at the Zein El-Abedien mosque

The Hadra is a collective Sufi practice that has been taking place…

Abdel-Rahman Sherief

Alber Saber: Brotherhood will drive the people to secularism

Daily News Egypt speaks to Alber Saber, the atheist blogger who was…

Ahmed Aboulenein

Leaving Islam in the age of Islamism

A growing generation of skeptics and atheists is increasingly coming to the…

Daily News Egypt

The great male crisis

There has been a global war on women but in spite of…

Mahmoud Salem

Daily News Egypt picks 10 In-Focus features

Ten of our best features in 2012

Fady Salah