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…
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…
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…
Word on the Street
CAIRO: Economic reform seems to be of late the number one priority of the government, which is natural considering the majority of the new government come from a business background.…
Preliminary report on ferry sinking in two months
CAIRO: A preliminary report into what caused an Egyptian ferry to sink in the Red Sea last month with the loss of about 1,000 lives would be released in two…
New natural gas field discovered in Sinai Peninsula
EL-ARISH, Egypt: Egypt has discovered a new natural gas field in the northern Sinai, the local government announced Tuesday.The state oil company Petrobel uncovered the field near the Sinai village…
Norwegian telecom company mulls bidding for third license
OSLO: Norway s largest telecoms company Telenor is considering a bid for Egypt s third mobile phone license, spokesman Esben Tuman Johnsen told Reuters on Wednesday. Telenor has been aggressively…
Western demands on Hamas are unfair so Egypt says
CAIRO: An adviser to President Hosni Mubarak said on Tuesday the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas would be wrong to make unilateral concessions to Israel and Western calls for it do…
Top reformist in ruling party resigns in protest over lack of democratic change
CAIRO: A senior member of Egypt s ruling party announced his resignation from the party Tuesday to protest what he called its failure to implement democratic reforms.Osama El Ghazali Harb…
Official promises broken
CAIRO: Less than a week after parliament promised to amend the law to prohibit the detainment of journalists as a result of their stories, an independent female reporter was sentenced…