Aboul-Ella will make it to Ahly standoff, Al-Sayed makes return
Zamalek club midfielder Mohamed Aboul-Ella was left out of his side s squad for Harras Al-Hodoud game in the Egyptian League on Tuesday due to injury, the club said. Aboul-Ella…
France's Michel chosen as new Zamalek coach
CAIRO: French coach Henri Michel has taken a short-term contract with Egypt s Zamalek after the club had a last-minute change of heart over a new trainer.Michel, recently fired after…
Bird flu claims yet another victim
CAIRO: A 15-year-old girl was the ninth victim to die of the H5N1 avian flu virus in Egypt yesterday, following the death of her relative on Sunday.Her brother is still…
Residents to pay LE 150,000 to salvage sinking building in Sayyeda Zeinab
CAIRO: On an unassuming side street in Sayyeda Zeinab neighborhood stands a six-floor apartment building supported by a number of impromptu wooden crutches, after the ground underneath gave way early…
How can the Arab Christians survive?
"A commandment of love was the theme that the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Michel Sabbah stressed when I asked him last week about what Arab Christians should be doing to…
US military bloggers ponder another Christmas in Iraq
Thanks to a military blogger who calls himself "Blackfive ("The Paratrooper of Love ), we have a snapshot of what Christmas looks like this year at Camp Taji, just over…
The Occupied Territories: Israel's moral, political millstone
With one stroke of a pen, Education Minister Yuli Tamir managed recently to restore to the public agenda the basic question that should not have been marginalized in the first…
For Egypt's women it's more harassment, fewer rights
"The Egyptians' lack of power over their lives is translating into a pervasive new style of interaction designed to provide some minimal illusion of strength. Shop girls are ruder, bands…
It's Oscar time for Egypt, well. not really
Ten of the 36 local films screened this year have been short-listed to compete in the annual Egyptian Oscars Awards - a ceremony widely considered by critics as one of…
Food Industries Chamber to comply with Consumer Protection Law despite objections
116,000 commercial fraud lawsuits filed in 2005CAIRO: The Food Industries Chamber (FIC) will comply with the new Consumer Protection Law despite the strong objections aired by FIC since implementation of…
