At least for a while it will be difficult for many Egyptian youths to forget the scene of 19-year-old engineering student Mohamed Reda taking his last breath. Reda was killed inside Cairo University's campus as he got hit in the neck by birdshot (...)
CAIRO: Even after Arab revolutions and massive protests rocked the world and proved numerous Western pundits and politicians wrong, many in the US and Europe continue to view the region only through Western eyes, underrating the perspectives of the (...)
CAIRO: In 2010, I attended a press briefing at the US embassy in Cairo. The speaker was the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy and Human Rights. His statements fell on my ears unglamorosly as he echoed President Barack Obama's rhetoric of (...)
CAIRO: Over the past decades, numerous polls have demonstrated that the majority of Egyptians want shari’a—or Islamic principles—applied to parts of their country's legal system. Egypt’s constitution reflects this: Article 2 of the (...)
CAIRO: Over the past decades, numerous polls have demonstrated that the majority of Egyptians want shari'a - or Islamic principles - applied to parts of their country s legal system. Egypt's constitution reflects this: Article 2 of the constitution (...)
The latest train tragedy in Egypt, a collision that killed 18 and wounded tens, wasn't surprising; it came following a series of fatal train accidents, the most deadly of which was in 2002 when a train fire killed over 373 third-class (...)
CAIRO: Egypt has a long-standing history of feminism, but gender-related problems in the country are far from resolved. Issues affecting society as a whole, including corruption, poverty and illiteracy, affect women in particular.
Egyptian women (...)
CAIRO – Egypt has a long-standing history of feminism, but gender-related problems in the country are far from resolved. Issues affecting society as a whole, including corruption, poverty and illiteracy, affect women in particular.
Egyptian women (...)
CAIRO: It's hard to understand what s really going on in Iran. Every time I log on to the internet and go to reputable news sites, Iran is making headlines.
But I am still confused and ignorant about whether the election results are legitimate or (...)
There is a way for me to become famous. My name will frequently appear in America's leading newspapers, where I will be invited to contribute my valuable opinion to their op-ed pages. I may be appear on Larry King Live, the Oprah Winfrey Show, and (...)
I happen to come from the Muslim world, and I now know it by heart that America is not our enemy. Bush told us about that when the US invaded Iraq and turned it into a bloodbath. He announced not being Iraqis enemy in a televised speech in 2003. He (...)