Donald Trump can actually help mediate the dispute before it escalates into violence Ahmed Aboudouh @AAboudouh http://www.independent.co.uk The Nile, one of the wonders of the natural world, finds itself […]
By AFP – Mar 08,2020 – JORDAN TIMES A hologram of legendary Egyptian singer Umm Kulthum is projected on stage at Cairo Opera House in Cairo, late on Friday, about 45 years after the singer’s death (AFP photo) CAIRO — Revered Arab singer Umm Kulthum returned to light up the […]
Short Url https://arab.news/cu7bg AFP February 10, 2020 Egyptian courts have largely applied Islamic inheritance laws to both Muslims and the Coptic Christian minority But Coptic Orthodox customs call for […]
Source: New Straits Times A top Egyptian court has ruled in favour of banning female academic staff at Cairo University from wearing the Muslim face veil, known as the niqab, […]
Source: Arab Weekly By Amr Emam, who is a Cairo-based journalist. He has contributed to the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the UN news site IRIN. Cairo University […]
Dr. Abdellatif El-Menawy January 14, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/5vb3b There are just hours left until the results of the latest crucial round of negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam […]
@indyvoices 9 hours ago Robert Fisk, The Independent The Arab uprising, 2011: Revolutions and their histories are cyclical in nature. We journalists divide the past and present at our […]
Modern-day despots wish to be blessed for their extravagant genius. But, Robert Fisk asks, what are we to make of this lunacy? And do they really believe their own hype? […]
‘I am trying to be the voice that makes people go down [to the streets] to stand against Sisi. If all of them went, there would be no risk to […]
Source: Arab weekly By Hassan Abdel Zaher is a Cairo-based contributor to The Arab Weekly. Cairo – Rania Hashem is seen as an enemy to many of Egypt’s married women. […]
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed November 24, 2019 Reflecting on the three major events in the Middle East — Iran, Iraq and Lebanon — we realize that they are more than […]
Source: Al Jazeera Case involving Coptic Christian woman comes as calls for equal inheritance rights reverberate across the Arab world. An Egyptian woman is taking on the country’s inheritance laws […]
Reuters October 13, 2019 Sisi said in televised remarks Sunday the meeting with Abiy Ahmed will take place in Russia Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan failed to resolve their differences over the Blue Nile dam CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday he would meet Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy […]
Over 3,000 people have been detained in anti-government protests. Yet Trump calls the Egyptian president his favourite dictator, and Britain remains Egypt’s single largest investor Bel Trew @beltrew Some […]
Sep 11, 2019 REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany (reuters_tickers) By Patrick Werr CAIRO (Reuters) – Alaa al-Habashi was looking for ingredients for a Ramadan feast when he stumbled on an […]
Arab News Monday . August 26, 2019 Mostafa Adel Egyptian social startups are taking alternative approaches to fostering awareness and reducing waste While initiatives around the world are taking action to combat this problem, some Egyptian projects are doing it more creatively CAIRO: Global plastics production reached 348 million tons […]
Source: The Arab Weekly By Hisham al-Najjar Is Sufism an alternative to political Islam? The Sufi current should not have political wings that would represent it, as was the case with […]
Jul 31, 2019 – 11:27 By Reuters staff KAFR AL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) – Security forces detained Lotfy Ibrahim, a young construction worker, as he left a mosque near his home on the Nile Delta in the spring of 2015. When his family finally saw him again nearly three months later, […]
A new kind of collision between regional alliances is becoming the new life-or-death matter in the Arab world. And Egypt’s military is again in the heart of the complex and […]
N.A. Hussein July 1, 2019 Article Summary The Egyptian Catholic Church recently announced that it needs to further study the unified personal status law proposals, at a time when customary […]
