Daring not to dance in Rawabet dance showcase
After two years of continuous training with a number of leading Egyptian and international dancers and choreographers, the Cairo Contemporary Dance Workshop Program presented the resulting project, "Open Doors, performed…
Why America Will Lead the "Asian Century"
SINGAPORE: Not a week passes, it seems, without a big-picture thinker releasing a big-picture book or giving a big-picture sermon describing the gradual eclipse of American hegemony in Asia. True,…
Make room for Hamas in the peace process
WASHINGTON, DC: Any meaningful Israeli-Palestinian peace effort cannot exclude or ignore Hamas. If the process is to have a chance of achieving a meaningful conclusion, Hamas must be brought in,…
Dealing with overt and covert racism
JERUSALEM: Jewish-Arab relations in Israel are fraught with tension, and racism is part of it whether we admit it or not. Racial tension is not a product of the conflict…
Former minister joins World Bank
CAIRO: Medhat Hassanein, former Finance Minister and a finance professor at the American University in Cairo, was appointed as a member on the World Bank's Joint Committee on the Remuneration…
ECWR distributes children's booklet on sexual harassment
CAIRO: The Egyptian Center for Women's Rights released last week a booklet and animation film on sexual harassment of children in a step aimed at confronting the taboo issue. The…
Police brutality in Warraq gets rights group's attention
CAIRO: An alleged mass arrest, torture of detainees and framing evidence turned the attention of human rights lawyers from El-Nadim Center for Rehabilitation of Victims of Violence to Al-Warraq district…
Ministry of Justice launches surprise inspection campaign on specialists
CAIRO: The Ministry of Justice is paying surprise inspection visits to legal specialists' offices nationwide, threatening to take administrative action should specialists fail to report their achievement records for July.Regular…
Umrah pilgrims protest canceled trips, will be refunded
CAIRO: Hundreds of Egyptians staged a sit-in Sunday at Cairo airport after they were barred from traveling to Mecca to perform a pilgrimage due to new restrictions to prevent the…
Conflicting reports on Egyptian fishermen's escape
CAIRO: Days after 34 Egyptian fishermen overpowered their Somali pirates captors, versions of their escape differ, with one indicating that coordination efforts with other Somali tribes helped set the Egyptians…