It is not easy to talk about sex in any community and that could not be more true for the Arab and Arab-American one. So when the characters in the short filmThe Cup Readeropenly grappled with the regulation of sex and virginity to the cascading (...)
“The old will die and the young will forget,” declared David Ben-Gurion, the ideological father of the European colonial/settler project, Zionism. Few quotes so succinctly sum up the stated goal and vision, idealism, and delusional nature of (...)
Last week at the UN General Assembly, Barack Obama, President of the world's most powerful country, exalted the United Nations and the ideals upon which it was built. Namely, that "people can resolve their differences peacefully, that diplomacy can (...)
In early August 2012, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas vowed to renew the United Nations statehood bid in September:
"Even if this step conflicts with other parties' interests … [W]e will not step back. . . . Israel neither halted (...)
The Italian Cultural Institute in Cairo will inaugurate a cultural week for Wadi Gedid tonight. The cultural week was launched in cooperation between the institute and Wadi Gedid to introduce the environmental crafts and touristic appeal of Wadi (...)
Head of the Global Writer Naguib Mahfouz Award, Samira Mehrez, announced she will present the award this year to Egyptian People literature creation during the Egyptian January 25 Revolution.
She also announced to carve a memorial on the American (...)
CAIRO: Kefaya movement organized a march to celebrate its seventh anniversary for December 12 starting from in front of the High Court towards Mohamed Mahmoud Street in Tahrir Square, to stop at Maspero for a while then the movement will hold a (...)
CAIRO: A young man injured in November's deadly clashes in downtown Cairo died early Saturday morning in Qasr el-Aini Hospital.
Ahmed Mohammad Saleh, 21, was shot in the back of his neck. His family is waiting to receive his body so it can be (...)
CAIRO: A few hours before announcing members of the new government, 11 political parties and movements highlighted their refusal of Egypt's designated Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri's government. They compare it to former Egyptian President Hosni (...)
CAIRO: The first phase of Egypt's parliamentary elections was not fair, according to Ayman Nour, founder of al-Ghad al-Thawra Party and presidential hopeful.
While the election process may not have witnessed fraud, but there were great influences (...)
CAIRO: Egyptian author Sawsan Ameen Rashed won an encouraging prize for her children's story "Dorat al-Mamlaka." The story participates in the innovative competition by the literary club of Saudi Arabia.
The story discusses the manners of Prophet (...)
Political activists Mohamed Awad and Asmaa Mahfouz suspended their electoral campaigns to protest against violence against demonstrators.
Mahfouz told Youm7 she would not send her representatives to electoral committees, adding that she would not (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian April 6 Youth Movement today called on Egyptians to participate in a million-man march under the slogan, “Transfer of Authority and National Salvation Government.”
The choice of Kamal el-Ganzouri as prime minister of the (...)
CAIRO: Certain political figures, including revolutionary Imam Mazhar Shaheen, political activist Ahmed Darag, and artists Amr el-Qadi and Mohammad Awad, agreed to form people committees to secure the entrances and exits of Tahrir Square during (...)
CAIRO: Youm7 today learned that Vice-Chairman of the Justice Party and activist Mustafa el-Nagar received an offer from new Egyptian Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri to hold a ministerial post.
“I declined to accept the ministry job because above (...)
Prominent Egyptian writer Alaa al-Aswany coordinated between revolutionary powers to form a “national salvation government,” rejecting the ruling military's appointment of Kamal el-Ganzouri to the premiership.
Revolutionary groups ended a meeting (...)
CAIRO: Sixteen Egyptian political groups in Tahrir Square formed a Civil Salvation government chaired by presidential candidate Mohammad el-Baradei after an emergency meeting among political forces Friday, opposing a government proposed by Egypt's (...)
CAIRO: In response to the reappointment of former Prime Minister Kamal el-Ganzouri as PM of the National Salvation Council, the Revolution Youth Coalition and National Association for Change rejected the decision on grounds of el-Ganzouri's age and (...)
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CAIRO: Likely Egyptian presidential candidate Mohamed el-Baradei today claimed that the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) did not offer him the presidency of the so-called “national salvation (...)
CAIRO: “Stop this brutal massacre,” said presidential hopeful Mohamed el-Baradei to the Central Security Forces, calling for a stop to security violence against demonstrators in Tahrir Square.
El-Baradei wrote via Twitter on Tuesday, November 23 (...)
CAIRO: The Egyptian Democratic Alliance condemned chairman of Egypt's ruling military council Hussein Tantawi's lack of apology about the incidents in Egypt during the transitional period, resulting in the death of hundreds in Tahrir Square and (...)
CAIRO: April 6 Youth Movement called for the formation of a national salvation government with all political and economical powers to run Egypt's affairs within 48 hours.
The movement also demanded the appointment of a new Prime Minister within (...)
CAIRO: A total of 22 movements and political parties announced their consent to Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf government's resignation. They decided to form a government of a national salvation within a week with full authorities to rule (...)
CAIRO: Youm7 revealed Egyptian presidential candidate Mohamed el-Baradei apologized for not attending the meeting Egypt's ruling military council called for on Tuesday November 22.
Sources said el-Baradei preferred to play a role of mediator (...)
CAIRO: April 6 Movement insisted in a statement on dismissing the current government of Egyptian Prime Minister Essam Sharaf, in a response to the bloody clashes witnessed in Tahrir Square recently.
It called upon the formation of a national (...)