CAIRO: Girgis Farag Nasr closed his eyes and grimaced with pain as the needle dug into his arm. "Yes, it hurts, he said, "but I like the color of the blood. After a few minutes, he proudly held up his right wrist, freshly tattooed in black ink with (...)
CAIRO: As the Egyptian bloggers recently acquitted of libel and defamation of Alexandria Judge Abdel Fattah Murad welcomed the verdict, they also warned that their case demonstrates the risk of libel and defamation laws being used to silence (...)
CAIRO: The Court of Appeal has upheld a December 2008 ruling acquitting two bloggers and the director of a human rights organization of libel and defamation of Alexandria Judge Abdel Fattah Murad.
Since 2007, Murad has pursued efforts to block (...)
The location is great, because people are always coming in and out of the mosque, Um Araby explained as she chose an ice-cream cone from a large stack.
She examined five or six cones, and said with a wide smile that she was looking for a "sweet (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian sociologist and rights activist Saad Eddin Ibrahim characterized the recent political unrest in Iran as part of "the flowering of a Spring of Freedom in the Middle East, in an op-ed published Thursday in the Wall Street (...)
CAIRO: A Chechen Al-Azhar student recently deported to Russia from Egypt has gone missing, according to the Associated Press. Human rights groups have suggested that he was detained by Russian authorities in order to put pressure on his father, a (...)
CAIRO: Egypt launched its first Nanotechnology Research Center in a bid to foster technological education and research in the country.
The center will conduct research in the production of solar energy and water desalination in addition to (...)
CAIRO: The establishment of a Palestinian state is the first step towards normalizing relations between the US and the Middle East, President Hosni Mubarak wrote in a commentary published Friday in The Wall Street Journal.
"Among the host of (...)
CAIRO: Tourism revenue has decreased significantly in the first four months of 2009 compared to a year ago, as the financial crisis continues to impact revenue sources in Egypt dependent on the global economy.
According to figures compiled by (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian youth are mostly pessimistic about employment opportunities in Egypt, according to a recent survey by The Gallup Poll.
Although young Egyptians believe that they can help their country make progress in the next decade, they cite a (...)
CAIRO: At 5:58 am on Monday, Jesse Sossong and four other quarantined students waited by the door of the American University in Cairo dormitory in Zamalek.
At 6 am, the doors opened, and the students ran outside, holding an impromptu celebration (...)
CAIRO: A case filed by Alexandria Judge Abdel Fattah Murad that calls on the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) to block over 50 websites, has been postponed to July 4.
The websites in question published information (...)
CAIRO: Police officers armed with rifles and wearing medical masks stand guard outside the quarantined dormitory of the American University in Cairo in Zamalek, keeping pedestrians and gathered journalists at a distance from the building.
Just (...)
CAIRO: Despite announcements of five more H1N1-infected students at the American University in Cairo's Zamalek dormitory, the 140 students holed up there are finding boredom and frustration to be the greatest threats as they confront seven days (...)
CAIRO: Fourteen Russian students at Al-Azhar University who are still in police custody will be deported, the Russian Embassy in Cairo said.
At least 40 foreign students were detained on Friday, May 29, following an early morning raid on their (...)
CAIRO: A protest planned by the Kefaya movement for change on Wednesday night was thwarted by heavy police presence and the arrest of one of its organizers.
At a June 3 press conference, Kefaya announced that it was boycotting President Barack (...)