Source: CNN Ancient Egyptians and their modern counterparts share less in common than you might think. That is, at least genetically, a team of scientists have found. Researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, both in Germany, have […]
Jun 20,2017 -JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby In June 1967 I was in the midst of my final weeks in college when the war broke out. At the time, I knew little about the Middle East, since I was more engaged in the anti-war and civil rights movements. And […]
Source: NPR BY JANE ARRAF Christians in Minya province have faced long-running tensions with their Muslim neighbors over an issue central to their survival as a community — whether […]
Source: BBC News A number of Arab countries including Saudi Arabia and Egypt have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilising the region. They say Qatar backs militant […]
Listening to Abu Zeid’s words today, they might have been used to condemn Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s Isis pronouncements – or indeed the army of Saudi Arabian imams who preach […]
Source: BBC Gunmen have attacked a bus carrying Coptic Christians in central Egypt, killing at least 28 people and wounding 25 others, officials say. The bus was travelling to the […]
Reuters International MAY 17, 2017 – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi delivers a statement following a meeting with French President Francois Hollande at the Elysee Palace in Paris, France November […]
Reuters International MAY 13, 2017 – 13:38 Skulls buried in the sand inside a newly discovered burial site in Minya, Egypt May 13, 2017. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (reuters_tickers) By […]
Source: The Daily Star CAIRO: The head of Egypt’s Al-Azhar university, one of the world’s leading Islamic seats of learning, has been replaced after labeling a controversial Muslim reformer an […]
Reuters International MAY 6, 2017 – General view of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, April 17, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (reuters_tickers) CAIRO (Reuters) – The head of Egypt’s Al-Azhar […]
Source: BBC An Egyptian school drop-out is hoping to make history after spending three years painstakingly creating what he believes to be the world’s largest Koran. Saad Mohammed’s intricately decorated, […]
Egyptian police and soldiers are now attacked daily and civilians are disappearing, either for fear of Isis or because they are seized by the army’s ‘collaborators’ Robert Fisk Cairo @indyvoices […]
Source: Reuters By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Lin Noueihed | ARISH, EGYPT One Monday in early April, Shaher Saeed was driving south of the city of Arish in Egypt’s North […]
As a minority, Christians naturally need the regime to protect them. Their fear has drawn them closer and closer to Sisi. They have become associated with the regime itself Robert […]
Source: CNN By Sarah Sirgany and Delia Gallagher, Cairo (CNN)Pope Francis sent a message of tolerance and co-existence Saturday in a Mass at a Cairo stadium before concluding his two-day […]
Robert Fisk @indyvoices It must be the most dangerous trip Pope Francis has ever made, into the very heart of the capital of the largest Arab nation whose Isis tormentors […]
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)When Pope Francis travels to Egypt on Friday, he will retrace a journey his namesake made nearly 800 years ago, with a […]
Source: Religion News Service By Christopher Lamb VATICAN CITY (RNS) Even as Pope Francis was on his way to the violence-plagued Central African Republic almost two years ago, security advisers […]
Apr 27,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – It is bizarre but telling of the modRami G. Khouriern Arab world that one of the most important meetings that could shape the future condition of hundreds of millions of Arabs and others in this region — the two-day Egyptian-Saudi Arabian summit in Riyadh […]
Reuters International APR 28, 2017 Pope Francis waves as he leaves for his pastoral trip to Egypt at the Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in Rome, Italy, April 28, 2017. REUTERS/Tony […]
