Homeless at Home
Today, the United Nations estimates that 77 million people - more than 1 percent of the world's population - are displaced within their own countries, having been forced to flee…
Editorial: Egypt's sunny economy and landmark harassment verdict
On Tuesday, to cap two days of miraculously upbeat discussions about the state of Egypt's economy in the midst of a global crisis at the annual Euromoney Conference, as the…
Doctors lobby group criticizes syndicate for dropping minimum wage demands
CAIRO: Lobby group Doctors Without Rights (DWR) said at a protest Friday that the board of the Doctors' Syndicate has failed to implement resolutions voted on by the Syndicate's general…
Stand up for your rights, says victorious Noha Roushdy
CAIRO: Winning the first sexual harassment case in the history of Egyptian law can be draining, as Noha Roushdy is finding out. Ever since the North Cairo Court ruled in…
Word on the Street: Roushdy a hero, but government has to step up harassment fight
CAIRO: In a first, a Cairo criminal court sentenced a man to three years in prison for sexually harassing a woman. Although in legal proceedings the charge was "sexual assault,…
Rain, thunder and lightening cloud Cairo
CAIRO: Heavy rain, thunder and lightening marked the weather on Friday which had Egypt under thick clouds all day. The weather forecast for the day was a high of 27?C,…
Al-Tariq newspaper chairman arrested for selling public land
CAIRO: Medhat Barakat, businessman and chairman of the board of directors of Al-Tariq newspaper, was detained for 15 days pending investigation for allegedly forging ownership documents and selling 6400 feddans…
Sports Talk: This time there's no excuse
Egypt should make it to the 2010 World Cup. We could use the world must be we don t want to make it sound like it s do or die,…
Police officer gets three years for killing Manzala fisherman
CAIRO: A criminal court in Mansoura sentenced a police officer to three years in prison and a fine of LE 10,000 ($1,750) after being convicted of murdering a fisherman in…