Cairo International Film Festival: Today's highlights
Hide and Seek (Egypt)With an original storyline and a cast of first-time actors, Emad El-Bahat s feature debut might end up being the dark horse of the competition.GoodNews9:00 pm Summer…
Jitters over the looming Fatah-Hamas showdown
Palestinian politics is approaching the point of no return. The power struggle between the Islamist Hamas and Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and his secular-nationalist Fatah movement is intensifying, with tensions…
Palestinian apathy does not mean an end to resistance
I have been observing discussions in Ramallah for some time now, trying to understand what people think about the political situation in general and the Israeli aggression against Palestinians in…
Sometimes science catches up with common sense
Medical prescriptions sometimes come with an instruction to take medicine on a full stomach. Doctors often counsel patients to pay attention to their diet as they recover from illness. It's…
If I only had a smile
Qena's children with clefting receive free corrective surgeryCAIRO: A smile crosses barriers and cultures. The simple upward curve of the corners of the mouth is a universal expression of pleasure…
Egypt, Switzerland and a traffic offence
CAIRO: With the countless number of traffic accidents that festoon Egypt's roads and streets, it would pay to heed the moral which says one cannot forever escape the crimes they…
High security, few protestors at second planned garbage march
CAIRO: Security and plainclothes police officers in full armor barricaded Al-Mattariya square on Sunday afternoon as Kefaya activists reportedly were planning to hold a second garbage march to protest the…
Tensions rise as role of Islamic movements in Arab world debated
CAIRO: A seminar about The Rise of Islamic Movements in Arab Parliaments early this week turned into a heated debate about the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt.The seminar is part…
Man follows dream, kills wife
CAIRO: Mohamed Sayed Awad, 36, a driver, stabbed his wife four times in the neck after he saw in a dream that he was slaughtering her, reported in Al Gomhuriah,…