ALEXANDRIA: Plunging into the waters off Alexandria Tuesday, divers explored the submerged ruins of a palace and temple complex from which Cleopatra ruled, swimming over heaps of limestone blocks hammered into the sea by earthquakes and tsunamis (...)
CAIRO: Cairo University has postponed student exams set for this Thursday and the Egyptian president s security service took over the campus in anticipation that President Barack Obama will address the Muslim world from its main hall.
While the (...)
CAIRO: The kitschy Egyptian singer who found international fame with the hit "I hate Israel and who attacked America and Saddam Hussein in song over the Iraq war has traded politics for pigs - bemoaning swine flu as the next disaster threatening (...)
CAIRO: The poverty of Cairo's slums forced a young couple to sell nearly everything they had. When that wasn't enough, each of them sold a kidney.
The clandestine pre-dawn operation in a small private hospital ended with the man and wife being (...)
CAIRO: Iraqi composer Naseer Shamma is such a master of the traditional Arab stringed instrument called the oud that he has taught himself to play one-handed.
He was motivated not by showmanship but by friendship. He developed the technique to (...)
