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Spain and Portugal top the list as holidaymakers seek safety
The suicide bombing in Istanbul last week was just the latest terrorist incident over the past year to have sent tourists into a panic. Tunisia was the first big casualty. The holiday industry...
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Cosmic particles inside pyramids could unlock mystery of how they were built
An international team of researchers they will soon begin analysing cosmic particles collected inside Egypt’s Bent Pyramid to search for clues as to how it was built and learn more about the...
View ArticleNew technology could unlock Egyptian pyramid's secrets – video
An international team of researchers will soon begin analysing cosmic particles collected inside Bent Pyramid to search for clues as to how it was built and learn more about the 4,600-year-old...
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Doug Bandow: Saudi Arabia Is More Dangerous as a Frenemy than Iran is as an...
Saudi Arabia and Iran continue to turn their national struggle into a religious conflict. The first is dangerous. The second could be catastrophic. Yet Riyadh, America’s nominal ally, has demonstrated...
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James Dorsey: The Middle East: China Venturing into the Maelstrom
By James M. Dorsey CHINESE PRESIDENT Xi Jingping has effectively acknowledged that increasingly China will be unable to remain aloof to multiple crises in the Middle East by deciding to visit the...
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Brian Dooley: Five Years On, Egypt's Uprising Flagged at Tahrir
Clinging listlessly to the top of the pole in the middle of Tahrir Square the Egyptian flag projects absolute power, a signal of the old order restored after the mass anti-government uprising of 2011....
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US in no position to lecture on compassion | Letters
In his snapshot of the current situation across the Middle East (The opening up of Iran will count for little without American support for democracy and human rights, 19 January), Paul Mason calls for...
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Dr. Ioannis Kent: Mediterranean Tourism Highlights; Destinations that kept us...
Greece may be in financial turmoil but tourists have showed their continued preference to the country overlooking the negative attention that has been attracted. Tunisia suffered the worst terrorist...
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China's President Offers Praise And Billion-Dollar Deals On Egypt Trip
CAIRO (Reuters) – China signed investment and aid deals worth billions of dollars with Egypt during a visit by President Xi Jinping on Thursday and expressed support for Cairo’s efforts to maintain...
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Egyptian police raid Cairo homes as country prepares to mark 2011 uprising
Egyptian security officials say police have been questioning residents and searching apartments at more than 5,000 homes in central Cairo as a “precautionary measure” to prevent street protests on the...
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Six killed in Egypt bomb attack near Giza pyramids
A bomb attack killed six people, including three police officers, on Thursday near a road leading to the pyramids in the Cairo suburb of Giza, security sources said. The bomb exploded as police...
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Imane Rachidi: Virgins, Saints and Whores
Read on El Huffington Post The hymen! Be careful with your hymen! It’s your dignity! It’s the only thing that gives you value! He can rebuild his life, but you are worthless without your hymen! It’s...
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'This regime is more violent than Mubarak. There is no opposition now'
“‘Mahmoud told us in a letter: ‘don’t wake up a prisoner because his dreams are of freedom,” Tareq revealed. He added that one of the jails in which his younger brother had served time was that set...
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Magda Abu-Fadil: Hissah Al Sabah: An Enterprising Kuwaiti Princess
She’s not your stereotypical Arab princess out of some Hollywood producer’s imagination, but a hard working entrepreneur fiercely supporting women’s empowerment. She is Her Highness Sheikha Hissah...
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Eight Egyptians face trial over botched repair of Tutankhamun mask
Eight Egyptians involved in a botched repair of the famed golden burial mask of King Tutankhamun have been referred to trial for “gross negligence”. Related: Tutankhamun’s gold mask back on display in...
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State repression in Egypt worst in decades, says activist
The scale of state repression in Egypt is greater today than it has been for generations, one of the country’s most prominent journalists and human rights advocates has told the Guardian. Hossam...
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Eight Egyptians facing trial for botched repair job on King Tutankhamen's beard
The disastrous attempt to fix the king’s death mask occurred in 2014, when they used expoxy glue to reattach the chin. Prosecutors also claimed the workers had used the wrong glue to reattach the...
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Egypt Marks 5th Anniversary Of Uprising Against Mubarak
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt is marking the fifth anniversary of the popular uprising that toppled longtime autocrat Hosni Mubarak. The run-up to the Monday anniversary has seen stepped-up security measures in...
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The memory of the Egyptian revolution is the only weapon we have left
I didn’t take my camera out with me the night Hosni Mubarak was overthrown. I stood in Tahrir Square among tens of thousands of Egyptians and told myself I would enjoy the moment, I would not divide...
View ArticleEgypt's youngest political prisoner, five years since the revolution – video
Mahmoud, 18, is imprisoned in Egypt for wearing an anti-torture T-shirt. On 25 January, two years since Mahmoud’s arrest, and five years since the revolution in 2011, the law states he must either be...
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