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A lighthearted, powerful exploration of gender issues

Occasional imaginative and probing works aside, most critics have grown weary of…

Mariam Hamdy

Drogba named African Player of the Year

ACCRA: Chelsea striker Didier Drogba was on Thursday named African Footballer of…

AFP
AFP

Mummy of Egypt's monotheist pharaoh to return home

CAIRO: The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most…

AP
AP

No drastic measures in schools for declining H1N1 cases

CAIRO: Due to the substantial decline in swine flu cases, the Ministry…

Safaa Abdoun

Jewish respect and admiration for Muslim religiosity

JERUSALEM: Within Jewish tradition there are sources that express not just a…

Daily News Egypt

Spanish writer Miguel Delibes dies at 89

Miguel Delibes, one of Spain s top novelists whose works portrayed the…

AFP
AFP

Cars, bombs, and climate change

COPENHAGEN: For the better part of a decade, I have upset many…

Daily News Egypt

Israel seals off West Bank amid heightened tension

JERUSALEM: Israel sealed off the West Bank on Friday amid tension in…

AFP
AFP

An indirect route to a Palestinian state?

RAMALLAH: Palestinians and Israelis have different and possibly contradictory expectations from the…

Daily News Egypt

US patron who paid for conjoined twins' op dies

BOSTON: A Massachusetts philanthropist who gave away millions of dollars to meet…

AP
AP