Solomonia (Free subscription) | yesterday
[This post continues the series of excerpts from John Roy Carlson's 1951 work, Cairo to Damascus (link to in-print paperback). All posts in the series will be collected on this page.] pp. 388-389: "...Those who say 'speak the truth' are...
The Arabist (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
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The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
CAIRO, Egypt, Oct. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Egypt's capital, Cairo, has broken into the top ten of the world's emerging outsourcing cities for the first time, according to the latest Global Services-Tholons Study, moving up ...
Mail & Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
"Black cloud", a mass of polluted air that darkens the skies of the Egyptian capital in October and November, is less severe this year.
Bellaonline.com (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
On September 6, 2008, Destination Cairo performed at the HABDA Gala. It was a night filled with excellent performances by many beautiful dancers. Destination Cairo, the dance troupe that I belong to, performed to a fun, energetic song called "Hep Hup Remix" by Yeni Mezdeke.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Cairo - A Cairo-hosted meeting between rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah will most likely take place before the end of this month, a Palestinian source said Wednesday. Egypt's official MENA news agency reported that the Egyptian- mediated ta...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Cairo - Egyptian opposition leader Ayman Nour has said he will challenge President Hosny Mubarak in future presidential elections despite a jail term that has weakened his health and a ban on his participation in politics. Nour was sent to prison in ...
The Skeptic الشكاك (Free subscription) | yesterday
BBC: Crowds of Egyptians have attacked police with clubs and stones in a town south of Cairo after a pregnant woman died during a police raid on her home. The woman was pushed to the ground by officers when she would not let them enter her home to look for her brother, a suspected thief, police said. She [...]
http://socialist-blog (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
From Middle East online, 2008-10-09 Hundred Egyptians attack policemen with rocks after pregnant woman dies during police search at home. CAIRO - More than a hundred Egyptians attacked policemen with rocks and sticks in a town south of Cairo on Thursday after a pregnant woman died during a police search of her home, a security official said. Mervat Salam Abdel Fatah, in late pregnancy, died
Travelblog (Free subscription) | yesterday
Holly and I have finished our tour and survived our first day in Cairo on our own but I still haven't filled you in since we departed Aswan on our Nile cruise....I broke a strap on my favourite pair of sandals in Aswan before our Nile cruise boat checked out. No worries remarks our tour leader and local Egyptologist Michael. Everyone has some business or other to take care of in Aswan before we
Washington Post (Free subscription) | yesterday
CAIRO, Oct. 9 -- The oil-rich princes and financial titans of the Persian Gulf went into the week touting their immunity from the financial turmoil of the West, but stock markets in the region ended it posting sharp losses.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Cairo - Palestinian Islamists who met with Egyptian mediators have agreed to form a government of national reconciliation, not one of national unity, Hamas leader Mahmoud al- Zahar said Thursday. The government of national reconciliation might inc...
Xinhuanet (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
by Yu Zhongwen CAIRO, Oct. 9 (Xinhua) -- Egypt's ...
International News (I.N. Daily) (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
Tue 7 Oct 2008 http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL7162147.html CAIRO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - An Egyptian Christian man angry at his sister’s conversion to Islam and marriage to a Muslim broke into her Cairo apartment and sprayed gunfire on the family of three, killing the husband, security sources said on Tuesday. They said the woman, Mariam Atef Khilla, and her [...]
People Daily (Free subscription) | 10/09/2008
A senior Fatah movement official denied on Thursday that his movement has been invited by the Egyptian mediators to have bilateral talks with rival Hamas movement in Cairo on Oct. 25. Azzam el-Ahmad, chief of the parliamentary block of Fatah in the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) told "Voice of Palestine" Radio on Thursday that "So far, there is no official Egyptian invitation to our movement...
