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Oil versus tourism: At odds on the Red Sea

HURGHADA/CAIRO: Home for pristine diving spots and almost 200 oil drilling platforms,…

Heba El-Sherif

Putting an end to intolerance in Indonesia

JAKARTA: The beginning of 2010 saw much violence directed towards Indonesia’s religious…

Daily News Egypt

Why Jerusalem? The politics of poetry

JERUSALEM: one of the most ancient and richly-imagined cities in the world,…

Daily News Egypt

Life by the numbers

NEW YORK: Last week, I learned that I don't have cancer. My…

Daily News Egypt

The niqab or an education?

CAIRO: Last October, in an editorial titled “Confronting the Niqab” I supported…

Rania Al Malky

THE REEL ESTATE: A botched game with the ‘Big Guys’

I  was briefly acquainted with veteran scriptwriter Bachir El-Dik nine years ago…

Joseph Fahim

EU ambassador looks forward to bright future with Egypt

CAIRO: Enhancing relations with Egypt, especially on the political level, is the…

Daily News Egypt

PGA: Delahoussaye seizes early lead at Canadian Open

TORONTO: Brent Delahoussaye shot an eight-under 62 to equal the Canadian Open…

AFP
AFP

Gaza tunnel smugglers cutting through Egypt’s wall

RAFAH, Gaza Strip: A Palestinian tunnel smuggler with a blowtorch sliced through…

Daily News Egypt

Roddick’s Atlanta match to re-creates history in Tennis

ATLANTA: Andy Roddick resumed where he left off nearly a decade ago,…

AFP
AFP