JERUSALEM/CAIRO: There is certainly more than one way to see Jerusalem, which, since 1967, is either a reunited city or one half under occupation.
On a recent visit to Jerusalem, two tours of the city and its surroundings underlined the (...)
CAIRO: No shortage of commentary followed last summer's war between Hezbollah and Israel, and the image of Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, on kiosks around Cairo, as in other cities throughout the mainly Sunni Arab world, seemed a quick (...)
If a diplomatic life means constantly moving and upending your routines, then Jenny Bowker has bucked the trend. The wife of Australian Ambassador to Egypt Robert Bowker is an expert quilt-maker, teacher and proponent of patchwork who has taken her (...)
Behind the pomp, the lack of potency in Cairo's cocktails
Newness supplants only flashiness in determining Cairo's most popular nightspots. Too bad too many of them can't serve a decent mixed drink.
If going out changes by the whims of new (...)
On Tuesday, the factory space at the Townhouse Gallery in downtown Cairo was like any other day this month - at least at first. Boys and girls from Cairo public schools were organized around the large gallery space, acting out impromptu theater (...)
Heineken kicks off local DJ competition
Music is the newest method of promotion for alcoholic beverages in Egypt, with the re-launch of Heineken Music Thirst, an international competition to select and award local DJs.
The 2005 competition was (...)
Lawrence Wright arrived in Egypt in 1969 to study linguistics and Arabic and teach English at the American University in Cairo. A conscientious objector to the Vietnam War, Wright lived in Cairo for two years as part of a foreign service commitment (...)
CAIRO: The flat across the dusty alley from Ahmed Naguib Ahmed's appliqué workshop is a makeshift warehouse filled with unsold work from craftsmen throughout the neighborhood of Al-Khayamiyya Street, "Tent Maker's Alley, beyond Bab Zuweila.
The (...)
CAIRO/RAMALLAH: The fragmentation of Palestinian politics following near civil war in Gaza last week is not only unrepresentative of the work of Palestinian civil society but undermines popular unity against the Israeli occupation, the coordinator (...)
We arrived at dusk, two Americans with no visas, midway through a shared taxi ride from Beirut to Damascus. The fact that we reached Damascus by midnight, after a two-and-a-half hour wait at the border, seemed like a stroke of luck.
"Since you (...)
Above all else, you cannot miss the fact that Youssif Courtelis loves Egypt. The country seems his muse and rationale. It shows in the first album he made here last year - "Fi Baladak, Dedicated to everyone who loves Egypt, as the cover plainly (...)
CAIRO: After initiating a private check collection service for the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) last year, Barclays Bank Egypt launched a similar corporate service for bulk cash collection in early 2007.
This service by the British bank, Bulk Cash (...)
On a steamy, sand-stormed day in Cairo in early April, the seafood in Alexandria tasted especially fresh.
The waterfront walk down the Corniche, charming in its own right with Technicolor fishing boats bobbing in a harbor framed by the modern (...)
CAIRO: A 275-seat theater in North Carolina last weekend was the site of the world premiere of a new American and British-directed documentary on the Iraqi insurgency, "Meeting Resistance , that one commentator has already called "the single most (...)
CAIRO: The spokesperson for the US State Department has said that Egypt is undergoing a "process of political reform but offered no position regarding the upcoming referendum on constitutional amendments.
"You have to put this in the wider (...)
CAIRO: Demonstrations organized by the Kefaya National Movement for Change and opposition parties against proposed constitutional amendments were met with a massive state security sweep in downtown Cairo on Thursday.
Over 30 Kefaya activists were (...)
CAIRO: Running from sound grenades and tear gas at protests in the West Bank, working for a grassroots Palestinian organization opposing Israel's separation wall, and staying on a settlement in the Jordan Valley - for a few American students in (...)
SHIBIN AL-KOM: Although strikes ended last week at the textile factory in Shibin Al-Kom, workers there on Tuesday continued to express concern over their working conditions and looming changes as a private, foreign-financed company is set to take (...)
GIZA: The village of Temoua was rocked early Saturday morning when a truck loaded with gas tanks belonging to the Misr Petroleum Company unexpectedly exploded.
The blast occurred, according to local witnesses, after one of the small tanks, (...)
CAIRO: Long normalized but still tense relations between Egypt and Israel hit a potential snag with the announcement on Saturday that an Egyptian had been arrested inside Egypt, charged with spying for Israel.
Three Israeli intelligence officers (...)
NEW YORK: The week following US President George W. Bush s State of the Union saw a large anti-war demonstration in Washington DC and the publishing of a condemning magazine poll after a speech that was supposed to inflate the President's shrinking (...)
CAIRO: As the international press focuses on the recent phenomenon of videos allegedly depicting police torture in Egypt, attention has focused on the blogs that first broke and continue to report on what some bloggers have dubbed "videogate.
But (...)
CAIRO: Whether he has the potential to be the Tiger Woods or the Michael Jordan of squash is debatable. Right now, Ramy Ashour is just beating the sport's top players like an old pro.
The 19 year-old Egyptian won the Pace Canadian Squash Classic (...)
While the crises in Iraq led global news coverage in the past year, the effects of escalating violence on journalists' mobility and ability to report safely in the war-ravaged country are sad footnotes to every headline.
According to the US-based (...)
Some call Bush a terrorist
CAIRO: The decision of an Iraqi court to uphold the death sentence given to former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein opened the door to many discussions about Iraq among Cairenes with many expressing concern for the (...)