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Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | yesterday
CAIRO (AP).- Egypt's famous Tomb of Tutankhamun will undergo a five-year project to clean and restore the lavish wall paintings in the underground chambers of the boy king whose golden mask and artifacts have long awed the world. The project to restore the country's most famous tomb is the latest collaboration between Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities and the Los Angeles-based Getty Conservation...
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Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Max Strasser, a journalist living in Cairo, wrote his thoughts on government plans to sync the call to prayer in every Cairo mosque to a radio broadcast.
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Egypt's new ambassador to Iraq has arrived in Baghdad, a diplomatic source said on Saturday of Cairo's first diplomatic representative in the country since its charge d'affaires was killed in 2005. Sharif Kamal Shahin, a diplomat with 27 years' experience and a former ambassador to Zambia, arrived in Iraq on Friday, the source said. Egypt's foreign ministry spokesman has described the move as an "important...
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Washington Post (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
CAIRO -- As Egypt gears for pop diva Beyonce Knowles' first performance in North Africa, Islamic conservatives are branding her show an "insolent sex party" that threatens the Muslim nation's "social peace and stability."
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Chippshots (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
The "peace process" had been headed for the mortuary slab ever since George W. Bush's presidency (with his acquiescence in Ariel Sharon's brutalities at Jenin in the West Bank, his concessions to Sharon in the matter of Israel's retention of its illegal mega-settlements in the West Bank, and his double-teaming with Sharon to eliminate Yasser Arafat and then politically emasculate Mahmud Abbas)....
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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
• Italian court convicts Robert Lady and 23 others in absentia • First prosecution for US abduction of suspects to torture states The former head of the CIA in Milan has been given an eight-year jail sentence for kidnapping at the end of the first trial anywhere in the world involving the agency's " extraordinary rendition " programme. Robert Lady was tried in his absence and convicted...
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France24 (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A German expert will attend talks next month to discuss Cairo's demand for the return of a 3,400-year-old statue of Queen Nefertiti, Egypt's antiquities chief said on Wednesday. The bust of the Egyptian beauty is the centrepiece of Berlin's "Neues Museum", which reopened last month 70 years after it was closed following heavy bomb damage during World War II.
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
CAIRO - A sharp deterioration in Egypt's relations with Israel is further complicating Washington's faltering efforts to move the Middle East peace process forward. The...
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Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
CAIRO - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton made a hastily arranged stop in the Egyptian capital today to consult with a longtime Arab ally amid indications of...
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
US secretary of state Hillary Clinton brought her flagging effort to revive Middle East peace talks to Cairo today with little sign that her round of diplomacy has helped break the impasse.
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Hamas on Monday denied reports that Egypt has agreed to amend its Palestinian unity proposal by issuing a new appendix taking into consideration the Islamic movement's reservations. The Egyptian-sponsored national Palestinian dialogue "has been suspended and did not witness any new movement" since Cairo refused to accept Hamas' notes on an offer aimed at restoring the Palestinian unity, according...
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The Observer (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Call for return to peace talks rejected after secretary of state praises Israel for offer to curb settlement construction The Palestinian government has accused the US secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, of undermining progress towards Middle East peace talks after she praised Israel for offering to curb construction of some Jewish settlements. After meeting Israeli and Palestinian leaders during...
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
As the sun rises over the Nile delta, workers at a fish farm in northern Egypt open a sluice gate and sort through the thousands of wriggling tilapia that pour out of a concrete holding tank. The fish are sorted, packed into crates and sent to supermarkets in Cairo and Alexandria, where they are sold as "the catch of the day".
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People Daily (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said Sunday that Egypt "understands" the Palestinian refusal to resume talks with Israel before freezing settlement activities on occupied territories. Abul Gheit made the remarks in a news conference after talks held in Cairo between Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Jordan's King Abdullah II. Earlier on Saturday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary...
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