Against all odds
JERUSALEM: Some people say that Jerusalem is a microcosm of Israel and perhaps of the whole world and the focal point for the thoughts and prayers of three billion Christians,…
Will Islamic opposition movements seize the day?
BEIRUT: When it comes to democratic development in the Arab world, the ball is now squarely in the court of Islamic opposition movements. US President Barack Obama has spoken. Defying…
Dominican President visits AUC
CAIRO: Dominican Republic president Dr. Leonel Fernandez visited the American University in Cairo s New Campus last week. Fernandez, constitutional president from 1996 to 2000 and again in 2004-2008, met…
Federal court reverses US entry ban on Egyptian Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan
CAIRO: Muslim scholar and leading Swiss-Egyptian Islamic reformist Tariq Ramadan, the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Banna, may yet be allowed into the United States following a recent court…
Ban on Al-Jazeera operations in West Bank lifted
RAMALLAH: Palestinian authorities on Sunday allowed Al-Jazeera to resume operations in the West Bank, four days after banning the Arab satellite station over the airing of a claim linking President…
Children's hotline morphs into family advice service
CAIRO: The National Council for Childhood and Motherhood's (NCCM) hotline for children has been getting hundreds of phone calls, most of them unrelated to the purpose of the hotline, according…
Official denied Upper Egypt blackout reports
CAIRO: Mahmoud Awad, head of Egypt's Electricity Holding Company, denied reports that the lack of regular maintenance to a major electricity line has led to a blackout in a number…
Three new H1N1 cases appear in Egypt
CAIRO: The Ministry of Health reported three new H1N1 cases Saturday, raising Egypt's total to 120, of which 101 have fully recovered.According to the ministry's official statement, one Egyptian and…
MP questions return of 500,000 Egyptian workers from Libya
CAIRO: Muslim Brotherhood MP Saber Aboul Fotouh, filed a questioning at the PA to investigate the Libyan authorities' decision to let go of 500,000 Egyptian workers without prior notice or…
Court acquits civil servant on charges of insulting president
CAIRO: Minya teacher and poet Mounir Said Hanna Marzuq was acquitted Saturday on charges of insulting the president, according to a release by the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information…