Photographers protest Sorour's People's Assembly restrictions
CAIRO: Egyptian photographers demonstrated Saturday in front of the Journalists Syndicate to protest a decree restricting their presence in parliament to five minutes at the beginning of each session.Parliament Speaker…
The US should pay Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan
There is a refugee crisis in the Middle East that is unprecedented and far supersedes the Palestinian Diaspora of 1948.Millions of Iraqis - some educated and as well off as…
Manufacturers launch attacks on import tariff cuts
CAIRO: Leaders of Egyptian industrial chambers have expressed strong reservations with the government's recent decision to curb tariffs by 25 percent on imports of certain manufactured goods, including home appliances,…
Middle Eastern freedom lags as the US turns away
CAIRO: The state of freedom overall in the Middle East declined in 2006 from the previous year, according to the findings of "Freedom in the World, the long-running annual survey…
At best, the US is able to contain the Iraq mess
Somehow, four years on, the debate about Iraq is still animated by wishful thinking. The White House talks as if a surge of 20,000 troops is going to stop a…
Five million infected with hepatitis C
5 million infected with Hepatitis C CAIRO: At least five million people in Egypt are infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV), a new committee formed by the country's government…
Media watchdog cites dangerous year for journalists in annual report
CAIRO: The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) voiced grave concerns over the high numbers of journalists killed and violated last year in its annual report presented at a…
Iraqi refugees in Egypt 'up to 80,000,' says UN official
UNITED NATIONS: Citing grim daily indicators - 100 people killed, hundreds wounded and thousands displaced - an official with the United Nations refugee agency predicted that Iraq's humanitarian crisis will…
YOUTH VIEWS: Bridge over the Internet
Relations between the Middle East and the United States are undeniably strained. Evidence of this comes to us every day through the news, movies and entertainment television, and in academic…