Corruption and oppression dominate news
CAIRO: Talk of corruption has marred the privatization of the Omar Effendi department store chain, while the new imprisonment sentence given to a reporter, combined with the closing down of…
Two prominent television clerics feud over Islam's approach to the West
CAIRO: It s not just East and West that are divided over controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. Two of the most popular Muslim preachers on Arab television are feuding…
Illiteracy still rife among rural women
CAIRO: Nesma and a group of fellow women farm workers sit out in the midday sun after a morning of harvesting spinach leaves from plush green fields in the Fayoum…
Hot Towels
CAIRO: Stereotyping and bigotry have always been frowned upon and according to Independent Filmmaker Amr El Bayoumi, "first it was the drunken Irish, the greedy Jew with the big nose,…
Critical moment on the political horizon
CAIRO: During a transitional stage in Egypt's politics, reassessment of public policies is a necessity. Author Alaa Al Aswani and politician Mona Makram Ebeid took turns reviewing Egypt's most captivating…
Mubarak holds talks with Berlusconi in Rome
ROME: President Hosni Mubarak met Italy s Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi on Thursday as the Middle Eastern leader began a three-country European tour which will also take in Germany and…
Youth explore water problems
CAIRO: There is a precious commodity that isn t traded on any exchange. It is more essential than oil and more useful to the maintenance of civilization than any metal.…
State Department calls human rights records of Arab allies poor, problematic
WASHINGTON: The State Department called the human rights records of key Arab allies poor or problematic on Wednesday, citing flawed elections and torture of prisoners in Egypt, beatings, arbitrary arrests…
Migrant workers face abuse
CAIRO: On Feb. 3, over 1,000 people died when a passenger ferry traveling from the Saudi Arabian town of Dubah to the Egyptian port of Safaga sank off the Red…
A life fashioned from stone
CAIRO: Adam Henein is known in the art world as the man who makes stone speak. The carved depth of his sculptures has made him an internationally acclaimed artist and…
