The electric sound of Bikya
One balmy night last week, a crowd of about 60 people shuffled into Azhar Park's Geneina Theater to see a musical performance by Bikya, a Cairo-based electronic rock fusion ensemble.…
History will not absolve you
In the July/August 2008 issue of the bimonthly political magazine, Foreign Affairs, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice published a long essay titled "Rethinking our National Interest in which she reflected…
From heartache to Afghanistan
Have you ever worn a burqa before? asked the Amnesty International representative.One by one, the journalism students in the class I was teaching at American University of Paris took turns…
The end of neo-liberalism?
The world has not been kind to neo-liberalism, that grab-bag of ideas based on the fundamentalist notion that markets are self-correcting, allocate resources efficiently, and serve the public interest well.…
Economic monopoly in a divided system
One does not need to be a scientist or a philosopher to discover that the social conflict in Egypt has reached an unprecedented peak since the formation of the modern…
Publisher defends decision to pulp outspoken feminist's novels
CAIRO: Two books by controversial Egyptian feminist author Nawal El-Saadawi have become the center of debate among writers and intellectuals after prominent publisher Mahmoud Madbouli gave an interview explaining his…
In Egypt suicide and scams overshadow exams
CAIRO: Soad Ahmed Hassan paces anxiously outside the school where her daughter is sitting Egypt's end-of-year exams. So far the tests have driven two pupils to suicide and sparked a…
Palestinian-Israeli conflict at the top of Egypt's list, says research
CAIRO: The priority of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is now at its highest in Egypt, according to research by Shibley Telhami of the Brookings Institute. The study indicated that 88 percent…
Egypt ranks 74th happiest country globally, reveals study
CAIRO: Hikes in gas and food prices, strikes and protests, detention of political activists, questionable laws and difficult thanaweya amma exams are some of the issues dominating headlines in Egypt.…
Journalist summoned for interrogation over controversial book
CAIRO: A journalist has been summoned for interrogation before a military judicial body in connection with a book he has recently published, according to the Arab Network for Human Rights…
