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Egypt: Coptic man accused of rape has trial postponed

An Egyptian Coptic Christian man accused of kidnapping and raping a 12-year-old Muslim girl had his trial adjourned until next month, the official MENA news agency reported on Tuesday...

The Nag Hammadi story: arresting citizenship

Last Friday, January 15th, was “negatively” a special one for Egyptian blogsphere and civil society...

Egypt confident ahead of second African cup match

Egypt, its players and supporters, are confident it will basically punch its ticket to the quarterfinals on Saturday in its second African Cup match versus Mozambique...

Egypt to strip search passengers?

According to unconfirmed reports, the Egyptian government has introduced new strip searches for passengers arriving or departing from Cairo International Airport in a bid to increase security in response to the attempt to blow up an American passenger airline on Christmas Day...

Solar power has great potentional in MENA

Middle Eastern and North African nations (MENA) have three times more potential in developing solar power than the current world’s capacity, a report in the Khaleej Times reported...

Encountering peace: Change in Gaza is possible

Thirty-nine young people from Gaza applied to attend a peace education workshop sponsored by the Israel/Palestine Center for Research and Information (IPCRI) that was held this past weekend in a school in Beit Jala...

British government curtailing freedoms: Why Islam4UK should not be banned

The group Islam4UK had planned to hold a demonstration in a British town in homage to the Muslim lives lost in Afghanistan at the hands of the British army. After a huge ruckus broke out the event was canceled and the group was banned under the British Terrorism Act 2000...

Muslim religious guides only men? Think again

In recent years, Morocco, Egypt, and Turkey have trained and appointed a new group to the ranks of religious guides: women. Women religious guides, referred to as murshidat in Arabic, reach a demographic that might otherwise not be available–or receptive – to male imams, such as women and children, particularly those in poorer neighborhoods...

A Syrian haven for Christian spirituality

Atop a mountain in the Syrian heartland lies a monastery where the message of Christian-Muslim unity is alive and well...

Egypt MP: Next president must have American, Israeli support

The next Egyptian president should need to the approval of the United States and Israel, an influential ruling party member of Parliament said in remarks published Tuesday in a local newspaper...

Egyptian activists, bloggers arrested in anti-sectarianism solidarity showing

At least 19 Egyptian bloggers and one unnamed French activist have been arrested during an attempt to show solidarity with victims of the Naga'a Hammadi shootings on Coptic Christmas Eve, January 7...

Egypt’s answer to Amazon

The first thing you notice when you visit Sherif Nassar’s office in Ard el Golf, an upscale neighborhood in Cairo, is that he has no inventory on the shelf...

Headlines from the region

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A city called Egypt

It’s past time that Egyptians came to terms with the reality that we’re a country that imports its breakfast...

Egypt: 2009 inflation rate dropped

Egypt’s rate of inflation in 2009 declined to 11.8 percent compared to 19.2 percent in 2008, a recent report from the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics Authority (CAPMAS) said..

Climate change for beginners

You’ve heard the terms “global warming”, “climate change” and “greenhouse effect”, among many other environment related terms, but what exactly do they mean? Here are some basics to help you understand why we are in a crisis...

Egypt, Nigeria begin African Cup of Nations quest

The cafe workers pass through the tables, handing out coffee, water-pipes and tea, but their eyes steal glances at the television...

Egypt: Swine flu deaths rise to 201

The Egyptian Ministry of Health announced on Monday 6 more deaths as a result of the deadly H1N1 virus, or Swine flu, in addition to 8 new deaths that were announced a day earlier...

High cost of living means more unmarried in Egypt

A report issued by the Egyptian Cabinet’s Information Center revealed the delayed age of marriage for women in Egyptian society by approximately one and a half years when comparing statistics from 1992 and 2008...

Op-ed: Egypt’s ugly sectarianism face

Sectarianism has struck again in Egypt; in the most gruesome attack in a long time, when six Copts and a Muslim policeman were killed outside a church in the southern town of Nag Hammadi on Coptic Christmas eve, following Christmas Mass...