CAIRO: According to the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), 2008 is the first year in history that will see the majority of the world's population living in cities.
A picture of camel riders in the desert, advancing towards the sprawling (...)
In his short film Islands, new independent director Mohammed Salah explores loneliness and connection in a series of casually linked scenes. The film was screened July 9 in Maadi's Al-Kotob Khan Bookshop - it was, to say the least, über-artsy. Not (...)
CAIRO: A spokesman for the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) accused "another Sudanese political organization of "supporting and financing gang violence among the southern Sudanese refugee community in Egypt.
On June 20, this violence (...)
CAIRO: Shoura Council member Nabil Louqa Bibawi recently filed a complaint to the public prosecutor under penal code 77-D against democracy advocate Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Ibrahim told The Daily Star Egypt.
Ibrahim has not been yet been officially (...)
CAIRO: Despite being marred by some intra-communal tensions within the Sudanese refugee community, AUC's World Refugee Day was a "great success, according to Alexandra Kilsdonk, an organizer.
Two thousand to three thousand people attended the (...)
CAIRO: Feel like stopping by the Gulf this weekend? For around $40,000 not only can you make the weekend trip, but do it in your own private jet.
According to Captain Magdy of Travco Group - one of the largest tourism companies in Egypt - around (...)
Getting a visa to visit Sudan these days is almost impossible. Fortunately, getting to Matam Al-Khartoum is not. Finding the place is still an adventure though; you must turn down an alleyway, marked only by two small trees, a helpful Sudanese man (...)
CAIRO: Researcher at Ibn Khaldun Center, Amr Tharwat, who was arrested late May along with Abdellatif Mohamed Saied, Ahmed Dahmash, Abdel Hamid Abdel Rahman, Ahmed El Sayed are still missing, announced the center in a recent statement.
Saad Eddin (...)