Remember the story of Joseph, left at the bottom of the well for dead by his brothers? In his poem, 'Oh my father, I am Yusuf,' great late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish adopted this Biblical and Quranic story to express the nuances of the (...)
CAIRO: When Doctor Ilhamy Sultan began searching for his missing brother on the night of July 21, 2008, the last place he expected to find him was lying in a hospital bed, the victim of brutal police violence.
Ragai Sultan is 46 going on 47. (...)
CAIRO: A student blogger has been detained for 15 days without trial after "turning himself in to security.
Mohamed Rafat Bayoumi, mass communication student at Cairo University, was not at home when security raided his house around midnight on (...)
CAIRO: The split in Coptic opinion over foreign interference in Egypt's internal affairs once more reared its head Monday, as international Coptic organizations called for American action to protect Christians living in Egypt.
Senator Frank Wolf, (...)
CAIRO: Pleasure tourism always demands some sense of delusion.
Whether that might be deluding yourself into believing that the business phone-call will have miraculously been made by the time you get back, that somehow the sea-air will cure that (...)
If you're looking for a quiet night in, a Sufi Moulid is something to avoid at all costs - i.e taking a metro trip to Sayeda Zeinab and actually alighting then finding your way into town wouldn't be ideal.
This week, the Sayada saw thousands of (...)
There's something mercilessly haunting about Osama Dawoud's current exhibition "Rosetta at Artellewa art space. Perhaps it's the drawn, haunted faces staring out from beyond the chemical pallor of the photo, or the sweeping reeds across the sand (...)
CAIRO: Thousands of workers were made redundant and homeless in the first part of 2008 alone, reports a human rights group.
"Sons of the Land Association for Human Rights, an NGO founded in 2004, released its bi-annual report tracing a high (...)
CAIRO: An Alexandria court on Sunday ordered the release of 14 detained youth belonging to the April 6 movement, but lawyers are skeptical of whether the youths will actually be released.
Lawyer Mohamed Hassan El-Sirry, told Daily News Egypt from (...)
For Walid Hassanien, coming to Egypt was more an adventure than strategic career move.
"I figured something interesting was going to happen, he told me over a coffee.
With a degree in Industrial Design from Carleton University, Ottowa, Walid (...)
CAIRO: Young activists from the April 6 movement launched a spirited demonstration Thursday in protest at the arrest of 14 of their compatriots.The 14 youths, aged in their early to mid 20s, were snatched off the streets of Alexandria by police as (...)
Those deep, longing melodies sung by great legends from the Arab region known as Bilad El-Sham will always elicit a kind of nostalgic response.
Whether you've visited Lebanon, witnessed its paradoxical beauty hanging between love and war, or just (...)
CAIRO: Hopes and expectations were dashed Tuesday as it became evident that incarcerated lawyer and former presidential candidate Ayman Nour would not be released mid-sentence.
Supporters and family members of cult-figure and former presidential (...)
CAIRO: In 2003, the Housing Ministry, under the auspices of the First Lady, launched a campaign to provide housing for some of the poorest Cairo residents.
Five years later and white apartment blocks, Suzanne Mubarak's 'gift' to the poor, pepper (...)
There's a lot more to the term 'piano recital' than meets the eye. Conveying the intense, technical, yet highly spiritual language hovering between the cords is no easy job. As Mark Damisch demonstrated, it's a skill that takes years to (...)
CAIRO: The brother of the subject of a recent documentary highlighting alternative lifestyles of Sudanese gang culture in Egypt, was left fighting for his life in hospital last week following a brutal attack by gang members.
Raymon Justin, 19, (...)
If you were unlucky enough to be born in the 1980s, the name Torii will send the wheels of time swinging back to blonde, busty prima donnas and an iced up quiff a razor blade couldn't cut. I'm talking about Tori Spelling and Matt Dylan. The latter (...)
Sitting in the middle of Tahrir square in the sweltering summer heat isn't exactly the most enjoyable way to spend an evening. But when you're sitting on the grass of the AUC campus gardens, watching some quality comedy performances, suddenly (...)
CAIRO: Standing on the steps of the Journalists' Syndicate, press and activists - led by the Head of the Freedom Committee Mohamed Abdel Qoddous - voiced Monday their support for Al-Fajr journalist Kamal Murad, who was assaulted and arrested by (...)
CAIRO: On July 7, 2005, four British Muslims blew themselves up on the London public transport system. Fifty-two commuters, Muslims included, were tragically killed.
Two years later, and the fundamental question of why it was that four, seemingly (...)
What have a downing a cup of coffee and the modern age got in common? One leaves you feeling a little less corpse-like early morning, the other leaves corpses strewn in a savage cultural onslaught. "Ahwa Sada (Unsweetened Coffee), the latest (...)
CAIRO: It was a victory that was a long time coming. The shrill cries of ecstatic women filled the air as farmers made their way to the Journalists Syndicate Monday evening to celebrate the final verdict of a four-year-long battle.
Before an (...)
Myriam Faris is championed as being a child prodigy. She started singing at the age of about minus five, won about a thousand prizes during her youth, and went on to study musicology before earning a place among the golden pop-brats of the Arab (...)
BEHEIRA: Twenty-three families left their homes and fled to their fields on Tuesday in an attempt to escape forces mobilized by local 'land thugs' in Ezbet Muharram, in Beheira, formers told Daily News Egypt.
Under the advice of the Solidarity (...)
CAIRO: Two hundred and fifty workers at the Mansoura-Espana garments factory in Talkha demonstrated for a second day against the dismissal of colleague Mohsen El-Shae'r.
El-Shae'r, 34, was given his marching orders after "speaking to the papers (...)