رصد "اليوم السابع" صباح اليوم الأحد بميناء بورسعيد السياحى التابع للمنطقة الإقتصادية لقناة السويس تراكى السفينة Viking Mars القادمة من ميناء حيفا وترفع علم النرويج وعلى متنها 867 سائحًا من مختلف جنسيات العالم و449 طاقم من البحارة.
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عزلت الحكومة التركية ثلاثة من رؤساء البلديات من مناصبهم يوم الاثنين بسبب صلات مزعومة مع متشددين أكراد فيما عمق من قمع أنقرة للمعارضة. تم إيقاف رؤساء بلديات محافظات ديار بكر وماردين ووان شرق تركيا – وجميعهم أعضاء في الحزب الديمقراطي (...)
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في بيان له هنأ الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة أنطونيو غوتيريش الشعب السوداني بمناسبة التوقيع الهام امس على الوثائق المتعلقة بالسلطة المدنية الانتقالية في جمهورية السودان. ويشيد بدور الاتحاد الأفريقي وإثيوبيا في التوسط في المحادثات التي (...)
People wanted elections for the sake of stability. Yet there is nothing vaguer than the word “stability."It is in all fascist leaders' vocabulary, specifically in order to maintain control of the people. The economyand security are the predicates (...)
There are streets that we walk through every day, and it's quite likely we feel that we know them. We have encountered the folks that inhabit them: the newspaper vendors, tissue peddlers, the creeps, the showmen. We are familiar with their (...)
CAIRO: Hazem Abu Ismail was there, in downtown Cairo on Friday April 6. Protests were held on this day over concerns that two of his family members held different citizenships, causing Abu Ismail's presidential candidacy nomination to be rescinded. (...)
The most recent attempts by the country's Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) to police the minds of Egyptians has led to a gregarious poster campaign around Cairo. Large photographs of a soldier cradling a baby with the slogan “Al-Gaysh wa (...)
Sepang, Malaysia (dpa) – McLaren aim to underline their new-found strength by winning the second Formula One race of the season in Malaysia on Sunday, a week after Jenson Button topped the podium for them at the opener in Australia.
However, the (...)
Egyptian art lovers are being offered a rare glimpse at contemporary Syrian art in the exhibition currently showing at Mashrabia Gallery.
With little sign of abating, clashes between Syrian forces and protestors in Homs, Deraa and other cities (...)
TRIPOLI: Libya's Stock Exchange resumed trading on Thursday after more than 12 months out of action, as the country gets back to business after last year's conflict ousted leader Moammar Qaddafi.
Officials on the trading floor rang a bell then (...)
“I see long streams, which are heavy, strong, dark and constant … I find them abstract, and rather incomprehensible, flowing recklessly most of the times. I call them ‘currents.' And I see finer streams. They are shorter in length and momentary in (...)
It is usually a bad omen to walk into a gallery and find out that the collection on display belongs to the ruler of the country that the gallery is named after. Luckily for the art-going public with access to the new American University in Cairo (...)
TRIPOLI: Saif Al-Islam Qaddafi, son and one-time heir apparent of toppled Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, will be moved to a Tripoli prison within two months and then face trial, the chairman of Libya's National Transitional Council (NTC) said on (...)
TRIPOLI: Libya's Stock Exchange hopes to resume trading by the end of the month after being shut down during last year's conflict, and five public share offerings are planned for 2012, General Manager Ahmed Karoud said on Thursday.
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It's hard to set freedom against the threat of Islamism while people get confused among clichés, such as the veil, considered the symbol of women's imprisonment, while definitions are scattered, and when the newly born freedom to create political (...)
A posthumous album by Amy Winehouse, a rough and ready assortment of alternative versions of hits, unreleased tracks and covers, has been hailed as a poignant snapshot of the singer's troubled life.
Critics said that "Lioness: Hidden Treasures" (...)
Despite the general distrust, all sections of the population took part in the latest protests in Tahrir; young and old, couples throwing stones together, all social classes were represented; many people around were supportive, makeshift hospitals (...)
The “RGB” exhibition at the Townhouse gallery is a dark horse.
I must admit that I didn't get it at first; I had become lazy, and I almost chose to agree with my equally lazy friends about this show. But RGB is one of those rare moments where you (...)
Two Cairene galleries exhibited ruminations on revolutions in the environment, but the difference between the success of the two is obscene.
The French Cultural Center in Mounira hosts a marvelous show about the Egyptian uprising: “Field Statements: (...)
In the elegant Mashrabia Gallery, tucked behind Talaat Harb Square, an exhibition entitled “On Edge” opened the fall season. But what exactly is “On Edge”?
As is common of group shows in the city, the works of the 14 participating artists seem to (...)
Ali Farzat is a hero. He has been criticizing – through his cartoons – the Assad governments since the mid-1960s. But when protests began to intensify against second-generation-despot Bashar al-Assad, something about the scale of government (...)
Waleed Farouk, as they say, is a man of many hats. Among the most distinguishable is the jaunty kelp-green beret that sits atop his head on most weekdays. Another of these hats is his role at the helm of the recently established Nabta Art Center, (...)
Harry Potter creator J.K. Rowling on Thursday took her lucrative boy wizard into the digital age, revealing that his adventures will now be sold as e-books through a website that contains new material.
After years of restricting the phenomenally (...)
By Imhotep
Play around with your persona this summer and it might just help you discover new sides to yourself, my dear Rams, as people born under the Cardinal Fire sign of Aries (21 Mar-21 Apr) are sometimes called. When in romantic indecision is (...)
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The gusts of scorching, furious midsummer zephyr, my dear Rams, as people born under the Cardinal Fire sign of Aries (21 Mar-21 Apr) are sometimes called, may uproot the flowers of affection and scatter them into the dust. But (...)