Egypt signs 300 mln euro power plant loan
CAIRO: Egypt has secured a €300 million ($385 million) loan from the European Investment Bank to fund a major power project as the country moves to boost its electricity output,…
Metropolitan Bedouins: Tarabin tribe living in Cairo between urbanization and Bedouin traditions
CAIRO: In the heart of the fancy Cairo suburb of Maadi lies the district of “Al Arab”, named after its original inhabitants, Arab Bedouin tribes from Sinai who first…
More Americans say Obama is Muslim, says poll
WASHINGTON: Roughly one in five Americans wrongly says President Barack Obama is a Muslim, according to two new US opinion polls out Thursday amid a furor over a planned mosque…
Dutch Arab group fined over Holocaust cartoon
THE HAGUE: A Dutch appeals court on Thursday fined an Arab organization in the Netherlands €2,500 for causing "unnecessary offence" in publishing a Holocaust-denying cartoon. "The Holocaust is a black…
Tania Saleh: Sugar-coated medicine
Candor distinguishes Tania Saleh and her music from her contemporaries. The biting criticism in her lyrics throws you off-guard, attacking social conventions via sarcastic comments set to sweet melodies. The…
Stolen Greek statue to return home to Egypt
CAIRO: The Egyptian antiquities department says a stolen Greek-era statue that was confiscated in Canada is on its way home. Thursday's statement said the marble bust was seized by Canadian…
France expels Egyptian preacher for second time
PARIS: France on Thursday expelled for a second time radical Islamic cleric Ali Ibrahim Al-Sudani back to his native Egypt having already kicked him out in January, Interior Minister Brice…
Britain warns Libya not to fete Megrahi’s release, a year on
LONDON: Britain has warned Libya that any celebrations to mark the one-year anniversary Friday of the Lockerbie bomber's release would be "tasteless, offensive and deeply insensitive". The Foreign Office urged…
Israeli rabbi who called for killing of non-Jews released
JERUSALEM: An Israeli court has ordered the release of a settler rabbi detained after he outlined in a book cases in which he said it is permissible to kill non-Jews,…
US tells Israel Iran is one year from atomic bomb says report
WASHINGTON/ TOKYO: The United States has persuaded Israel that Iran would take one year or longer to build a nuclear weapon, dimming the prospects of a preemptive strike on Iran's…