Decoding Egypt: Do Algerians Hate Us?
CAIRO: The football-mania that preceded and followed the Egypt-Algeria match in Sudan for the 2010 World Cup qualifiers started with hostile internet and media campaigns, and developed into rioting and…
Africa at risk
ADDIS ABABA: Climate change will hit Africa - a continent that has contributed virtually nothing to bring it about - first and hardest.Aside from Antarctica, Africa is the only continent…
The velvet delusion
COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS: With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the relatively non-violent overthrow of communism throughout Central and Eastern Europe, optimists predicted a new golden age…
Shifting the Afghan 'Great Game'
TEL AVIV: So President Barack Obama has decided to "stay the course. The obstinate battle cry of the Bush administration in Iraq has now won out in Obama's planned surge…
Human rights groups present bleak picture ahead of UN Feb. review
CAIRO: Human rights organizations have painted a bleak picture of the state of human rights in Egypt in reports submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC).The reports were…
Princess Ferial buried in Cairo
CAIRO: Princess Ferial, the daughter of Egypt s last king, was buried in a Cairo mosque on Tuesday after a low-key funeral attended by her relatives.The princess died in a…
Daily News Egypt reporter wins Dubai Ibda'a Awar
CAIRO: Daily News Egypt intern and Cairo University student Raghda Bassam El-Halawany won the Judge's Award for Journalism at the eighth Ibda'a Student Awards in Dubai for a story on…
April 6 youth to file complaint for 'kidnapped' members
CAIRO: The April 6 Youth Movement filed a complaint Wednesday to the Prosecutor General and the Attorney General in Sharqeya governorate concerning the alleged kidnapping of three of the movement's…
A four degree world? You really don't want to go there…
PARIS: If Earth heats by four degrees Celsius - some seven degrees Fahrenheit - the planet we call home would become a very unwelcoming place.Even as some world leaders tamp…
An exorcism on Moqattam Hill
CAIRO: Cairo's squatter settlements of Mansheyet Nasser are where people go to literally face their demons. Carved in the Moqattam Hill is the Coptic monastery of Saint Simon, known for…