Present and Tense
My wife calls me a mule. I call her Forty Acres. Together we're the perfect couple, a dream of emancipation running across oceans of color, creed, and common sense. Last…
Look who's watching?
An explosion has already been heard in Iran. Not the nuclear kind the world is dreading. This one is softer, curvier (some makes come with an unusually short fuse) and…
An affordable goal
CAIRO: Shisha first found its way into the land of the Nile with the Ottoman conquest in the early 19th Century. It is the modern shisha, however, that is uniquely…
Activists, journalists condemn Al-Jazeera reporter's arrest
CAIRO: Press freedom activists and journalists condemned the arrest of satellite TV news station Al-Jazeera s Cairo bureau chief Hussein Abdel Ghani on Wednesday, calling it an attack on journalists…
Reform, before it is too late
CAIRO: It wasn't long into the aftermath of the latest Sinai bombing that the people in Dahab, and the rest of the country, began anxiously pondering who was responsible for…
Mubarak arrives in Jordan for talks with king
AQABA, Jordan: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak arrived in Aqaba for talks with King Abdullah II on aiding the Palestinians amid a growing Western boycott, an official with Jordan s royal…
Egypt renews state of emergency for two years
CAIRO: Egypt s parliament approved the renewal of the state of emergency for two years Sunday, a controversial measure the country s premier justified with a recent wave of bombings…
One killed as Egypt sweeps Sinai for bomb suspects
CAIRO: An Egyptian was killed Sunday in clashes that broke out when police raided northern Sinai to hunt down the group responsible for the deadly bombings in Dahab, the interior…
Egypt detains two in bomb attack investigations
CAIRO: Egyptian police have detained two men they said drove people suspected of involvement in bomb attacks in the resort of Dahab and north Sinai, the state MENA news agency…
Emergency law fails to quell terror, say activists
CAIRO: Activists say that a triple bomb attack in the Red Sea resort town of Dahab on Monday is proof that a long-standing emergency law is ineffective in combating terror.…
