Egypt Conflict & Tragedy News

The elders in the community of about 100,000 were sceptical, suspecting political motives behind the generosity. “When we asked what they needed they also gave us a long list of requirements: schools, a bus stop, a healthcare centre, a post...

The Al Noor charitable foundation is linked to the Magrabi hospitals that are known throughout the Arab world for providing free eyecare to the poor. The hospital group, which began in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1955, are private for-profit facilities,...

C O N T E N T S Editorial : Abrogate the Gazira Act 2005! Agricultural Engineers’ Group: Why rejecting the Gazira Privatization? Taayush Association: Who Enjoyed the State’s “Religious” Economy? Secretariat: The Situation of Human Rights, November-April 2009

So what could be more explosive than a mix of both passions, war and peas? Just such a conflict is raging between those old foes, Israel and Lebanon. Last year, a team of Israeli chefs concocted what they claimed was...

A high-ranking Egyptian security source, who wished to remain anonymous, told Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Jarida on Monday that the Egyptian security services are interrogating 17 “extremists” suspected of being connected with the Francop ship, which was seized Wednesday by Israel for...

A Lebanese military source told Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Qabs in an article published on Sunday that the preliminary investigation into the Francop vessel shows the ship was not transporting weapons, but food, from Iran to Syria. The daily also said that...

An American Army helicopter flies past a mosque in Baghdad, Iraq. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images by Eugene Rogan 532pp, Allen Lane, £25 Early on in his book Eugene Rogan, who teaches the modern history of the Middle East , confesses...

The French government is considering calling off the next Africa-France summit due to be held in the Egyptian Red Sea coastal city of Sharm El-Sheik next February, according to news report. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (R) receives French interior minister...

Actually, Israeli law lays down clear guidelines for such investigations. The government decides to set up a commission of investigation. The president of the Supreme Court then appoints the members of the commission...Anybody who may be damaged by its conclusions...