Sole Arab diplomat in Iraq quits over lack of vision

CAIRO: The Arab League envoy to Baghdad, the sole Arab diplomat still in the city, has resigned because of a lack of Arab vision over the conflict in Iraq, according…

AFP
AFP

Gaza neighborhood becomes ghost town

GAZA CITY: In Gaza s Tal al-Hawa neighbourhood, the buildings are riddled with bullet holes and windows have been shattered - grim reminders of the fierce internecine clashes that have…

Daily News Egypt

UN condemns Holocaust denial in draft US resolution

ReutersUNITED NATIONS: The UN General Assembly condemned on Friday denials of the Holocaust in a US-drafted resolution responding to a Tehran conference dominated by speakers questioning the extermination of 6…

Daily News Egypt

Kefaya to focus on political reformation rather than demonstrations

CAIRO: The appointment of Abdel Wahab El Messiri as the new General Coordinator of the Kefaya opposition movement is expected to refocus the group's energies to push for political reformation.Hany…

Yasmine Saleh

Accidents and how to avoid a tumbling wall

I am often asked, mostly by taxi drivers, what religion I belong to. I have given various answers, all of them funny, but it has dawned on me, the driver…

Peter A. Carrigan

Book fair's highlights

Seminar: Civil society and development. 1 pm, 6th of October hall.Seminar: Peaceful applications of nuclear reactors. 3 pm, 6th of October hall.Seminar: Europe, Christianity and Islam: A 14 century old…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Jordan begins reacting to the Sunni-Shia rift

The timing of the execution of Saddam Hussein on the first morning of Eid al-Adha, the video clips officially released by the Iraqi government and those from the cell phones…

Daily News Egypt

Enough abuse of the streets in Lebanon

Just as it was half a century ago, Lebanon is once again a pioneer and pace-setter in the Arab world, though this time the direction of movement may be toward…

Rami G. Khouri

America's new Middle East strategy: containing Iran

What's America's strategy in the Middle East? US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice this week sketched a new framework based on what she calls the "realignment of states that want…

David Ignatius