By David Ignatius The Daily Star Story Summary As Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood government slides toward the financial cliff, what’s the right policy for the United States? Mursi has been dithering for a year in negotiating a roughly $5 billion rescue package from the International Monetary Fund that Egypt desperately needs. […]
Source: International Business Times, by Vasudevan Sridharan. Egypt has quietly introduced a Saudi-style Islamic religious police force in order to implement the moral principles of Islam using “non-violent methods”. The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, an informal group, made the announcement at a press conference […]
But all the crusading and invading simply plays into al-Qa’ida’s hands – just ask the French By Robert Fisk: He is an English writer and journalist from Maidstone, Kent. He has […]
An initial investigation into the hot air balloon crash that killed up to 19 tourists in Egypt, including three Britons, has ruled out any criminal activity as a cause of […]
Story Summary A hot air balloon caught fire and exploded as it was flying over Egypt’s ancient temple city of Luxor on Tuesday, killing 19 tourists, a security official said. […]
How Tripoli, Egypt, and Zanzibar rode 19th-century European expeditions to profit by Dane Kennedy, Boston Globe In June 1857, the British explorers Richard Francis Burton and John Hanning Speke set […]
RIYADH : ABDUL HANNAN TAGO ARABNEWS Thursday 21 February 2013 US Secretary of State John Kerry will visit the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in the first week of March as […]
EGYPT’S NEW GRAND MUFTI ELECTED FOR FIRST TIME EVER Category: Middle East Published on Tuesday, 12 February 2013 16:21 Written by Syarif Hidayat Hits: 46 Cairo, 2 Rabiul Akhir 1434/12 February 2013 (MINA) -Shawqi Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam is to become Egypt’s new Grand Mufti following a vote by members of […]
Source: The Huffington Post By MAGGIE MICHAEL 02/11/13 02:19 PM ET EST CAIRO — Muslim clerics from Al-Azhar, Egypt’s premier religious institution, chose the country’s top Islamic jurist in a […]
DUBAI — Days before his overthrow, Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak received a senior visitor from the United Arab Emirates, one of several Gulf monarchies long supportive of the most Arab populous country and its veteran strongman. What transpired between Mubarak and Foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahayan is […]
AMMAN – Automatic spending cuts set to go into effect in the US early next month may affect Washington’s military and humanitarian assistance to Jordan. As across-the-board cuts in US government spending, set to begin on March 1, would reduce the budget for the State Department and the US Agency […]
Al Arabiya News: Musa Furber. It has been reported that the Egyptian cabinet is considering taking legal action against those who use religion to incite violence. Beyond incitement to violence, there may even be a case that such irresponsible statements fall under Egypt’s blasphemy law, which clearly states “whoever makes use […]
RAMALLAH (Ma’an) — Recent reconciliation meetings in Cairo between Palestinian officials have fallen short of expectations, an official said Sunday. Independent coalition chief Khalil Assaf told Ma’an TV that Palestinian […]
Russian TV: Hard-line Egyptian clerics have called for the assassination of opposition leaders and claimed sexual assaults against women protesters were justified. Meanwhile, following days of calm, anti-government protesters again clashed with police. On Friday, opposition leader Hamdeen Sabahy said that death threats against him or other members of the […]
By HAMZA HENDAWI HUFFINGTON POST CAIRO — Egypt’s presidential spokesman says an end to Syrian crisis is a condition to restore relations with Iran and that his country supports the […]
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JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Tuesday 5 February 2013 The 56-member Organization of Islamic Conference, the largest Muslim organization in the world, should have a seat on the UN Security Council, said […]
MUNICH — Syria’s opposition leader flew back to his Cairo headquarters from Germany on Sunday to explain to sceptical allies his decision to talk with President Bashar Assad’s main backers […]
Source: The Economist. WITH angry crowds across the nation baying against him, Egypt’s president wagged his finger at the people in a late-night televised speech. He declared a curfew for some cities, he called for support for the police, he deployed the army to the streets. Seemingly as an […]
Source: Spiegel: AFP German Chancellor Angela Merkel had some tough words for Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi on Wednesday in Berlin. Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi paid a whistle-stop visit to Berlin on Wednesday to drum up foreign investment and convince Europe of his democratic credentials. The German media felt he sent […]