Source: Associated Press EL-ARISH, Egypt (AP) — Suspected Islamic militants gunned down a Coptic Christian man and stabbed his daughter to death inside his home in northern Sinai, the seventh such killing in a month’s time in the restive region, officials and a Christian priest said Friday, prompting hundreds of […]
Tom Verde Our third story is that of Shajarat al-Durr, the first woman to sit upon an Egyptian throne since Cleopatra, nearly 1,300 years before. Art direction for the “Malika” series is by Ana Carreño Leyva; calligraphy is by Soraya Syed; and the logo graphics are by Mukhtar Sanders (Image Source) *** [Note of […]
Reuters International FEB 16, 2017 By Lin Noueihed and Ahmed Mohammed Hassan CAIRO (Reuters) – Libyan factions have tentatively agreed on an Egyptian-brokered roadmap to heal divisions, Egypt said, though the failure to engineer a meeting between two key figures has cast a shadow on the diplomatic push. The […]
Reuters International FEB 8, 2017 By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) – Egypt has eased restrictions at a tightly-controlled border with the Gaza trip in a sign of improved relations with the Palestinian territory’s Islamist rulers. Truckloads of goods ranging from steel to fish have rolled into the enclave in […]
Source: BBC As President Donald Trump tries to re-instate his controversial travel ban, there is one thing he does not need to worry about – any opposition from Egypt. When President Trump decided to temporarily close America’s borders to citizens of seven mainly Muslim nations, the response from Cairo was […]
Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI Today CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s top Islamic authority on Sunday rejected President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi’s suggestion that legislation be adopted to invalidate the practice of […]
Jan 26,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri Despite all the negative gestures and statements he has made in the past 18 months, my personal and journalistic instinct is to see what US President Donald Trump actually defines and implements as policies before judging him conclusively. That should take just […]
Source: Associated Press By HAMZA HENDAWI CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s president said Tuesday he was alarmed by his country’s high divorce rate, suggesting a ground-breaking legislation to delegalize divorces verbally […]
Source: Reuters By Mohamed Zaki | CAIRO An Egyptian box office hit that highlights the religious establishment’s cozy relations with the state has provoked a backlash from Sunni Muslim clerics, […]
Source: Associated Press By BRIAN ROHAN CAIRO (AP) — Egyptian authorities have placed one of the country’s all-time greatest soccer players on a terror watch and no-fly list, over accusations […]
On arrival in his cell, the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohamed Fahmy discovered that he was imprisoned with men whom he had interviewed only a few months earlier as members of the Morsi government Robert Fisk @indyvoice To interview a jihadi is one thing, to live among jihadis quite another. To share their prison […]
Dec 28,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab It has become an annual tradition: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and members of his government spend a few days before and during Christmas Day in Bethlehem. While Abbas’ participation in the midnight mass at the Church of the Nativity is the highlight of the […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | Published — Monday 12 December 2016 Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Al-Tayeb. (AFP) ABU DHABI: The head of Al-Azhar, Egypt’s top Sunni authority, said on Monday that the Western concept of modernity is not the “best example” for Muslim women to follow. […]
By REUTERSDEC. 12, 2016 DOHA — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman sent condolences to Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday after a church bombing in Cairo, a supportive gesture amid reports of tensions between the Arab states over Syria’s war. A bombing at Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral on Sunday killed […]
Source: CNN Eman Ahmed, from Egypt, is believed to be the world’s heaviest woman. According to her family, she weighs 1,102 pounds (500 kg).”Eman didn’t live life as everyone does,” Shaimaa Ahmed, Eman’s younger sister and carer, tells CNN. “She didn’t enjoy her childhood or youth. She’s been battling with […]
Source: BBC A bomb explosion in the Coptic Christian cathedral complex in the Egyptian capital Cairo has killed at least 25 people, officials say. Dozens of others were injured in […]
COMPILED FROM WIRE SERVICES CAIRO Egyptian Ministry of Antiquities Photo Egypt has unearthed a more than 7,000-year-old city and cemetery dating back to its First Dynasty in the southern province of Sohag, the Antiquities Ministry said on Wednesday. The city and cemetery – likely home to senior functionaries and grave […]
Source: the Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan November 13 at 5:39 PM An Egyptian Coptic Christian woman sits in the rubble of a makeshift chapel that was torched a few […]
Halt reflects deepening rift between the two countries By Reuters – Nov 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Egyptians gather to buy subsidised sugar and oil from a government truck, after goods shortage in retail stores across the country and after the central bank floated the pound currency, in downtown Cairo, Egypt, […]
Great Pyramid of Giza is one of the seven wonders of the ancient world It has three known chambers and was built as a Pharaohs tomb Experts have now confirmed the existence of hidden space in the pyramid using radiography scanning By AFP and LIBBY PLUMMER FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 14:52 GMT, 15 […]
