Ayman Barakat's trial postponed
'The case against him is very fishy,' alleges his attorneyCAIRO: A group of El-Ghad (Tomorrow) Party supporters protested rowdily on Monday in front of the Benha Criminal Courthouse chanting, "Down,…
The faces of freedom
CAIRO: How far can you push the limit, testing authorities' tolerance to the freedom of expression you are demonstrating? No one can answer this question better than Amr Adib; because…
Mubarak tells parliament he plans to continue with democratic reforms
President Hosni Mubarak told his parliament yesterday that he plans to continue with democratic reforms, and hopes to work with both ruling party members and the opposition in the future.
Sudanese asylum seekers end CairoU.N. sit-in
* CAIRO: Some 1,500 Sudanese asylum seekers have abandoned a more than two-monthlong sit-in outside U.N. offices in Cairo after the agency agreed to review their asylum…
Making Egypt prosper in a global economy
CAIRO: As global trade representatives met head-on in Hong Kong to negotiate the reduction of tariffs and agricultural subsidies, Minister of Investment Mahmoud Mohieddin and Deutsche Bank Chief Economist Norbert…
Four banks interested in United Bank of Egypt
CAIRO: The Central Bank of Egypt has given four banks permission to undertake due diligence checks on United Bank of Egypt (UBE) as the prelude to a possible takeover, a…
Sunken treasures resurface
CAIRO: Immersed in the choppy waters of the Mediterranean lurk treasures from the era of Anthony and Cleopatra.Until today, only few adventurous divers and the fish could enjoy the colossal…
Airport detentions source of humiliation
NEWARK, New Jersey: For years, Egyptian native Mohamed Younes protested the questioning and detention of Muslim and Arab-American air travelers when they were stopped at airports on security grounds. Now,…
Middle East, North Africa risk HIV/AIDS epidemic
CAIRO: It was 1986 when the first case of HIV was reported in Egypt. The patient, a man in his 20s, was quarantined against his will at one of Egypt's…
Childhood revisited
There are different ways to read Sayyid Qutb's autobiography A Child from the Village. One can simply view it as an intimate document of rural life at the turn of…
