CAIRO: Heba, a 27-year-old Egyptian woman, closes the door, offering a tray of glasses of sparkling red Karkade-nectar. Hibiscus-petals swim to the surface of the drink.
The walls of her apartment are likewise painted in clear colors, and the (...)
CAIRO: As the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) is expected to win big in parliamentary elections that began on Monday, associating oneself to the struggle for Palestine has again been a (...)
For the first time in decades, a European Bank has decided to close down its Israeli branch, Israeli daily Haaretz reported.
Claiming it is simply reacting to the Greek debt crisis, the French Bank BNP Paribas recently decided to shut down its (...)
As efforts to end all outstanding political differences, Hamas and Fatah officials are in talks to simultaneously release all political prisoners detained in Gaza and the West Bank.
The efforts for political reconciliation stretch to include (...)
CAIRO: On Tuesday morning, a report on the mental health of mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik was handed in to the Oslo district court. Much anticipated, the report was to state the mental health of the 32-old man who brutally gunned down 77 (...)
CAIRO: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has postponed the demolition of a bridge that gives access to Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa Mosque due to “pressure from the Arab Spring,” Israeli paper Haaretz wrote Sunday.
Quoting a senior Israeli (...)
CAIRO: Medical sources and those close to families of protesters who were killed last week in Egypt's clashes, have confirmed to Bikyamasr.com that mourning families and relatives are being threatened by state authorities, who have told them not to (...)
CAIRO: Palestinians are on the move these days. September, October and November has seen drastic developments towards changing the conditions of life for Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.
September witnessed a bid to the United Nation for (...)
CAIRO: Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Daniel Ayalon Saturday slammed newly re-found Palestinian unity, saying that a Fatah-Hamas unity government would “turn the Palestinian Authority into a terror entity.”
“Such a move will deal a debilitating (...)
CAIRO: On Wednesday, an envoy of members from the Palestinian Authority members, led by leader Mahmoud Abbas, arrived in Cairo.
Upon arrival at the Egyptian Defense Ministry, Abbas met with Army General Hussein Tantawi and thanked Egypt for its (...)
CAIRO: On Tuesday night, a fair number of Palestinians from the West Bank city of Ramallah met up to voice their concern and support for those protesting against aggressive military rule in Egypt's Tahrir Square.
Building on a proud tradition of (...)
CAIRO: At Cairo's Zeinhom morgue, the number of deceased has been rising beyond any number to be found in newspapers, official statements or Health Ministry reports.
Here, the unofficial number of deceased in Tahrir as communicated by doctors (...)
CAIRO: Protests in solidarity with the ongoing protest in and around Egypt's Tahrir Square will hit the Palestinian city Ramallah, in the West Bank, on Tuesday.
Calling for protesters to “support our brothers and sisters,” the protest is to bear (...)
CAIRO: In spite of the severe violence and ongoing battles in Tahrir Square, the blood transfusion ward in Qasr al-Aini hospital in downtown Cairo today looked fairly empty.
A request to donate blood at the reception was warmly (...)
CAIRO: Hamas and Fatah leaders, Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh and Fatah leader Mohammad al-Nahhal, announced on Saturday that a new government is to be announced after the officials meet in Cairo on November 24.
Here, the fractions will take (...)
CAIRO: Last Thursday, European diplomats reported to the Israeli daily Haaretz that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has offered to strike a deal with the United States intended to regain funding for the Palestinian Authority.
Abbas allegedly (...)
CAIRO: In yet another early morning airstrike on Gaza, rockets injured two people in Gaza City early Wednesday. West of the city, an Israeli warplane struck a group of militants, injuring one man.
In the neighborhood of Tuffah, Israeli F16 jets (...)
On Tuesday, a group of activists, The Freedom Riders, caught a bus to protest the politics of segregation effectively keeping the life of West Bank Palestinians and Israelis apart.
The activists, five men and one woman, had gathered at a West (...)
CAIRO: “The recent escalation and loss of life – as well as the disruption of the southern residents' daily routine – will eventually make it necessary for the army to launch a major offensive in Gaza,” IDF chief Benny Gantz told the Foreign Affairs (...)
CAIRO: On Monday, Palestinian Prime Minister to the Palestinian Authority (PA) Salam Fayyad stated that he is ready to step down from his post in an effort to better the prospects of a unity deal between Gaza bound Hamas and West Bank located (...)
CAIRO: A naval police building was struck by Israeli rockets early Monday morning in Gaza. The hit left one Palestinian police officer in his twenties killed and four others wounded, one seriously.
According to Israeli news media, the airstrike (...)
CAIRO: Muhammad Eid Musleh Hamad, also known as Muhammad al-Teehi, leader of the Islamist organization Takfir wal Hijra, was arrested on Sunday, Egyptian security officials reported.
Al-Teehi was detained in the northern Sinai city al-Arish after (...)
A new report on the conditions of Palestinians jailed in Israel says that since the Shalit prisoner transfer deal last month, the situation has improved little, leaving many to wonder if it was a bad bargain.
A report recently published from the (...)
RAMALLAH: In yet another strike violating a truce brokered last weekend, Israeli rockets were sent off to the eastern Shujaiyeh district of Gaza City on Monday.
Witnesses told Palestinian news website Ma'an News Agency that up to 10 shells were (...)
JERUSALEM: Late Friday afternoon news began to be reported that Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) were boarding the two ships carrying pro-Palestinian activists, who departed from Turkey en route to Gaza on Wednesday.
“At 15:59 local time, msg from (...)