Taking the reins
The Giza Rotary Metropolitan Club had their annual end of year celebration at Safir Hotel during which the club’s presidency was formally handed over from its current President Maha Khiery…
Muslim Brotherhood and liberals: partners for change in Egypt?
WASHINGTON, DC: Papers around the world have speculated that Hosni Mubarak, the 82-year-old Egyptian president, is suffering from terminal stomach and pancreatic cancer and may not live to see the…
Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd: impoverished by his loss, enriched by his inspiration
LOS ANGELES, California: A bright light of critical scholarship of Islam was just extinguished this month in Cairo with the death of Professor Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd on July 5.…
Consolidators versus stimulators
LONDON: All intellectual systems rely on assumptions that do not need to be spelled out because all members of that particular intellectual community accept them. These “deep” axioms are implicit…
Running in place on trade
NEW YORK: Meetings of G-20 leaders regularly affirm the importance of maintaining and strengthening openness in trade. June’s G-20 summit in Toronto, although not very effusive on trade, did not…
Egypt, Turkey leaders discuss Mideast peace process
CAIRO: The leaders of Egypt and Turkey met in Cairo on Wednesday to discuss stuttering international efforts to coax Israeli and Palestinian leaders back to the negotiating table, the MENA…
Witness in Khaled Saeid death assaulted, says center
By Sarah Carr and Heba Fahmy CAIRO: A witness in the case of the death of Khaled Saeid has been physically assaulted, the Nadim Center for the Rehabilitation of the Victims…
Lawyer determined to appeal death sentence of double homicide convict
CAIRO: “I am determined to overturn the death sentence against Mahmoud Sayed Essawy,” charged with the murder of two university students in 2008, lawyer Ahmed Gomaa told Daily News Egypt…
Christian supremacists promote Quran-burning on 9/11
CAIRO: A California-based Church is calling for an international day to burn the Quran on Sept. 11 to commemorate the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers…
Egypt index up, tracking global markets
CAIRO: Egypt's main index ended slightly higher on low volume, echoing world markets, which rebounded on Tuesday on a strengthened dollar and positive US company earnings. "Today we're slightly up,…
