In the age of fast-talking, has come some fast writing. In the past, reporters who had as much time as they needed to look at a brewing situation in Lebanon/Egypt/the Mongolian Steppe, today have to be the (...)
It is unclear why the survival of Egypt's pyramids is a high priority to US-Egypt relations right now, but such is the case. On a news day that included brutal attacks against Myanmar's minority community of Muslims and a serious hostage situation (...)
A Syrian boy runs past damaged houses in the Syrian village of Tremseh (File photo)
There are many moving parts in Syria right now. In the last week, some of the highest ranking officers of Al-Assad's government have either defected or met a bloody (...)
Protesters outside the embassy of Ethiopia in Cairo want the government in Addis Ababa to respect the constitutional rights of Muslims (photo: Maryam Ishani)
A delicate cross studded with diamonds dangled at Miriam's collarbone while she chanted (...)
Protesting Employees of Cleopatra Ceramics came under fire from Security forces in Suez with tear gas after they stormed a government building and allegedly set fire to offices. Six people on hunger strike were also beaten and taken into custody by (...)
You might be surprised to know which women in Egypt are having a hard time
On a particularly warm night in Cairo, too lazy to go home and cook, a Canadian woman and her American friend decided to stop by a popular Spanish restaurant in Zamalek (...)
Mahalla is the epicentre of strikes that have crippled Egypt's textile industry (file photo)
Four more companies banded together on Wednesday, joining thousands of workers who are crippling the Egyptian textile industry in Mahalla, the epicenter of (...)
Egyptian journalist Shaimaa Adel arrived on the Egyptian Presidential Airplane on Monday with President Mohamed Morsy, after two weeks of detention in Sudan for covering protests in Khartoum.
She told reporters that after being arrested she was (...)
A commuter train headed to Sohag from Cairo derailed on Tuesday in the Badrasheen neighbourhood of Giza injuring dozens. At the time of printing there was no confirmed count of injuries or fatalities if any. Reports indicated that the accidents may (...)
A screengrab from a video released by the Venezuelan Ministry of Defense shows President Hugo Chavez inaugurating Iranian made “Mohajer 2″ drones
A drone believed to belong to the Iran-backed Islamist militant group Hezbullah has crash landed in (...)
SITTWE MYANMAR – MAY 4: Burmese Rohingya wait in a crowded room for malaria test results at special clinic for malaria on May 4, 2009 in Sittwe, Arakan state, Myanmar (Burma). The majority of the patients treated belong to the Rohingya Muslim (...)
SCAF general Roweiny leaves court after testifying in the Battle of the Camels case
The trial of two dozen former regime officials charged with orchestrating an attack that left dozens of demonstrators injured in February 2011 resumed on Tuesday (...)
Egypt's new and inspiring constitution has in its grasp the potential to break ground the way no constitution yet to emerge from the wave of reform in the region has. But how quickly we can go from the cell to the castle and forget our way home.
Not (...)
Borhan Ghalioun, former chairman of the Syrian National Council said despite the challenges of the meeting they “reached a consensus and approved the establishment of a unified country."
Kurds have found themselves again in the middle of the (...)
Maryam Ishani
It was one of Egypt's worst days. While most of the world was celebrating the change of the year from 2010 to 2011, several thousand worshippers were sitting in pews attending mass.
It was a New Year for much of the world, but a new (...)
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie looks on under the group's logo during his first press conference in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010
(AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Mohamed Badie Abdul Mageed Samy, a highly educated man with roots in labour (...)
Im his fit In his first speech as president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi addressed a nation left divided by a polarising election.
In the audience, among the many representatives from governorates across Egypt, representatives of the revolutionary (...)
A Rohingya Muslim village burns in recent violence in Myanmar
When asked where his parents were, the boy mustered, “I don't know."
He was still very young, even at 17 years-old, to have made a perilous crossing at the Naf River alone, venturing from (...)
Kurds are caught in the middle of two escalating zones of conflict involving four countries, but in the current standoff between Syria and Turkey, the Kurdish population may soon find themselves the bargaining chip that tips the stand-off into a (...)
The headline is an easy one to like. Once a prisoner, now a president. It illicits support from the heart, it lifts the chin, pulls the boot straps up. The story of the underdog who rose up through the ranks and became leader of a nation that (...)
Within fifteen minutes of the announcement that Mohamed Morsi had beendeclared the winner of Egypt's election, 11 telephone
numbers belonging to communication officers in Shafiq's campaign were all turned off or disconnected. Ahmed Shafiq (...)
In the hours before Mohamed Morsi was declared President of Egypt, the Egyptian state and public was put on high alert for possible fallout among disappointed voters.
After election rounds spread over two weeks, final elections spread over two days (...)
Egyptian, Syrian, Palestinian and Muslim Brotherhood flags, tents and effigies litter Tahrir square while tens of thousands of Egyptians anxiously wait around them for election results that they feel have taken too long to come. Chants that had once (...)
After a week of unofficial claims of victory, Mohamed Morsi is officially declared President of Egypt.
After two rounds of elections, appeals filed by both sides and delays in delivering a final announcement the Presidential Electoral Commission (...)
After two rounds of elections, appeals filed by both sides and delays in delivering a final announcement, the Presidential Electoral Commission addressed the nation from the State Information Service Press Hall.
It declared that after nearly one (...)