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Farouk Hosni’ Egypt’s secret agent or Minister of Culture?

Jurist and former Minister Dr. Yahya al-Gamal was the first to refer that Egypt’s Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni engaged in security and intelligence activities during his work in Paris

Highlighting Egypt’s advantageous freight movement.

A 108-page study states that Egypt is among the most developed economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. In the three years prior to the global recession,

Lord David Owen talks democracy, intervention

British politician Lord David Owen spoke to a group of Egyptian journalists on Tuesday on the twin subjects of democracy and humanitarian intervention as part of a two-day workshop organized

Abdul Ghafar finds himself detained for the fifth consecutive time.

For the fifth time in a row Prosecutors ordered the extension of Dr Ashraf Abdul Ghafar, Vice-Secretary General of the Medical Association and Rapporteur of the Human Relief Agency for

In Egypt and Saudi Arabia, succession looms

Egypt President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi Arabia King Abdullah, both in their 80s, have long played leading Mideast roles. Some worry that successors will complicate relationships.

It’s not about Niqab, it’s about credibility

Hoda Ramzy, another student, was expelled from Al-Azhar Institute in Shoubra, today, for merely wearing a niqab.

Egypt: The police state

Looking at the main gate of the Alexandria University medical campus at eight in the morning, it looks as if it were a queue at airport security.

MB Chairman mourns leftist thinker Dr. Mohamed Al Sayed Said

Mr. Mohamed Mahdi Akef, Chairman of the Muslim Brotherhood, mourns the renowned Leftist thinker and writer Dr. Mohamed Al Sayed Said– Vice-chairman of Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies

New Age Orientalism

This is a new Middle East. It is one that is now home to the irreverent study abroad American who has chosen Cairo, Amman or Beirut as the new location

Youssef Nada speaks

At the end of September Youssef Nada's name was removed from the United Nations Security Council's terrorism watch list.