CAIRO: Reformist leader has said the liberal youth behind the country's uprising have been "decimated" in parliamentary elections dominated by Islamists and expressed concern about the rise of hardline religious elements advocating extremist (...)
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TALKHA, Egypt — The sun was already searing the pavement on the early June morning when Mariam Hawas and her co-workers from the garment factory descended on the bank.
The bank employees knew why they'd come and (...)
The sun was already searing the pavement on the early June morning when Mariam Hawas and her co-workers from the garment factory descended on the bank.The bank employees knew why they'd come and rushed to bolt the doors.
The roughly 100 workers, (...)
CAIRO: When Egypt's police melted from the streets of Cairo this weekend, the people stepped in.
Civilians armed with knives, axes, golf clubs, firebombs, metal bars and makeshift spears watched over many neighborhoods in the sprawling capital of (...)
RAMADI: Off a dusty street flanked by piles of rubble and bombed-out car skeletons, the Saleh family is rebuilding their home with American aid money they got because three family members were accidentally killed in crossfire between U.S. forces and (...)
CAIRO: Muslims around the world, including the Palestinian group Hamas, said President Barack Obama's outreach in a speech Thursday was a positive shift in US attitude but fell short of a breakthrough because it lacked concrete proposals to turn the (...)
CAIRO: More than half a century ago, a prominent Egyptian archaeologist unearthed a stunning ancient mummy mask at the Sakkara pyramids near Cairo - the golden image of a noblewoman s face.
Mohamed Zakaria Ghoneim deposited the 3,200-year-old (...)