America looks for ways to fight its worst enemy: IEDs
The photographs gathered by The Washington Post each month in a gallery called "Faces of the Fallen are haunting. The soldiers are so young, enlisted men and women mostly, usually…
Some people just never learn: proposed teachers' law shows that someone just doesn't get it
Everyone with children in schools raise your hands.Now, those of you who are shelling out money for "private tuition keep your hands up.Chances are, the room's still full of a…
Vegetable vendors go the extra mile
CAIRO: The green grocer's job was once limited to selling vegetables. But today his responsibilities have extended to cleaning and sometimes peeling their fresh goods.Some vendors - mostly women -…
Bird Flu claims life of Qena girl
CAIRO: The Ministry of Health announced Saturday the 15th Egyptian death from the deadly H5N1 virus, known as bird flu. The victim, a 10-year-old girl from Qena province, was found…
Egypt court rules against US university on face veil
ReutersCAIRO: An Egyptian court ruled on Saturday that the US-accredited American University in Cairo (AUC) was wrong to bar a female scholar who wears an Islamic face veil from using…
Mounib Causeway: more than just the after-effects of the heat wave
CAIRO: Heat waves are not new to many of us, for when one hits us, people are washed in their own sweat, and they become dehydrated - or faint. The…
Environmentalists demand halt of potential oil drilling project on Red Sea Coast
CAIRO/HURGHADA: As British oil company Burren Energy Ltd. makes final preparations for a potential oil drilling project near a protected area on the Red Sea Coast, environmental organizations demand the…
Up close with an Iraqi refugee
CAIRO: Omar is an Iraqi refugee who fled his war-torn country for Cairo six months ago. The 30-year-old mechanical engineer from Baghdad, left everything behind, including his family, spacious home…
Researcher at Ibn Khaldun center still missing
CAIRO: Researcher at Ibn Khaldun Center, Amr Tharwat, who was arrested late May along with Abdellatif Mohamed Saied, Ahmed Dahmash, Abdel Hamid Abdel Rahman, Ahmed El Sayed are still missing,…