Top U.S. counterterrorism coordinator visits Sinai to view Egyptian efforts
CAIRO: The top U.S. diplomat for international counterterrorism coordination paid a surprise visit Saturday to the Sinai Peninsula apparently to view security efforts in a region that saw large bomb…
Egyptian Sunni leader offers to help end violence in Iraq
CAIRO: The head of Al-Azhar University, Sunni Islam s highest seat of learning, said Saturday he was ready to travel to Baghdad to help quell the wave of communal violence…
Egypt seeks to showcase furniture industry
CAIRO: The Egyptian furniture industry will take part in The Hotel Show 2006 for the first time this year as part of a government plan to get the industry to…
Contemporary art seeks to step out of Pharaohs' shadow
CAIRO: Egyptian art is often reduced to ancient statues, sarcophagi and the wondrous riches that fill the Cairo museum. Some 24 centuries after the decline of the Pharaohs, contemporary works…
Sandstorm wreaks havoc on transportation
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities diverted some flights and delayed the takeoff of others Sunday as a sand storm blanketed the capital, airport officials said.Bad weather and low visibility were also blamed…
Filming gone too far?
CAIRO: Israeli filmmaker and journalist Nimrod Kamer put together a nine minute video documenting what he calls "a new cultural phenomenon of the girls at the Cairo International Stadium, during…
Champions Egypt get soft African Nations Cup qualifying draw
CAIRO: The 2008 African Nations Cup qualifying draw treated newly crowned champions Egypt and runners-up Ivory Coast generously. Egypt are in Group 2 with minnows Botswana, Burundi and Mauritania and…
Egypt asks a U.S. museum to return a mummy mask disappeared 45 years ago
CAIRO: Egypt has asked the St. Louis Art Museum to return a 3,000-year-old funerary mask of a mummy depicting a young lady, which it said disappeared from the Egyptian Museum…
Opposition figure Ayman Nour questioned for battery
CAIRO: Opposition figure Ayman Nour, sentenced in December to five years in prison for falsifying official documents, was questioned on Thursday for allegedly beating a member of the ruling party.…
Bird flu spreads to areas in west, south
CAIRO: Bird flu has spread to birds in provinces in the south and west of Egypt, which has launched a campaign that will include mosque sermons to raise awareness about…