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Egypt says peace first with Israel, normalisation later 
AFP via Yahoo! News - Mar 15 1:57 PM
Egypt said on Thursday that Arab countries will not accept a normalisation of relations with the Jewish state until the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved.U.S. stokes new hope of free trade deal with Egypt Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mar 15 9:51 AM
U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez said on Thursday he believed Egypt and the United States were destined to negotiate a free trade agreement, reviving hopes of a deal dashed many times.US chides ally Egypt over conviction of student blogger AFP via Yahoo! News - Mar 15 8:33 AM
The United States chided its key Middle East ally Egypt on Thursday over the treatment of a student blogger jailed for making online statements deemed insulting to religion and the president.Egypt woos China and Russia with industrial zones Financial Times - 2 hours, 9 minutes ago
Egypt is planning to create industrial zones for Russian and Chinese manufacturers as it seeks to market itself as an export hub to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.Egypt names nation's first female judges AP via Yahoo! News - Mar 14 2:04 PM
Egypt's judiciary chief has named the country's first female judges despite opposition from conservative Muslims, according to a decree published Wednesday.Egypt: Don't Talk About the (1967) War Time Magazine - Mar 14 10:51 AM
An Israeli documentary over military actions in Sinai in 1967 causes a firestorm of protest in Egypt. But both governments would prefer to ignore the matter Bird flu detected on nine Egypt farms despite vaccinations AFP via Yahoo! News - Mar 14 9:18 AM
Bird flu has been detected on nine farms across Egypt where the poultry had been vaccinated against the virus, an agriculture ministry official said on Wednesday.Highlanders leave for Egypt The Herald - Mar 15 2:52 PM
HIGHLANDERS left for Cairo, Egypt from Harare International Airport shortly after midday yesterday with coach Methembe Ndlovu declaring that they will contest every minute of the first round, second leg Champions League clash with Al Ahly on Sunday.More human bird flu in Egypt Meat News - Mar 15 7:07 AM
EGYPT: Egypt has identified its 25th human victim of the potentially deadly H5N1 strain of avian influenza.Egypt's Oriental Weavers 2006 net jumps 31 pct Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News - Mar 15 2:23 AM
CAIRO, March 15 (Reuters) - Egypt's Oriental Weavers , the world's largest manufacturer of machine-made rugs, on Thursday posted a 31 percent rise in net profit and said sales jumped 82 percent due to the firm entering 12 new markets.Egypt names first female judges Southeast Missourian - Mar 15 5:00 AM
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Egypt's judiciary chief has named the country's first female judges despite opposition from conservative Muslims, according to a decree published Wednesday. Mukbil Shakir, the...Egypt: Appeals Court Upholds Blogger's Conviction for "Insulting Islam and President" AllAfrica.com - Mar 15 3:56 AM
(HRinfo/IFEX) - On 12 March 2007, the Alexandria Appeals Court affirmed the first degree court's sentence of four years' imprisonment for Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Suliman Amer for "insulting Islam and the president of Egypt".Ambassador of Egypt Hussein Darrar: There is Egyptian-Saudi coordination to resolve the Lebanese crisis Monday Morning - Mar 15 4:07 AM
Egypt has always had as a slogan Don t touch Lebanon . Is it still true to this slogan, and what is it doing to give it concrete form? I think that the Lebanese crisis is one of great complexity because of the internal and external situations.Village ways fuel bird flu spread in rural Egypt Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mar 13 6:37 PM
When Attia Abdel-Hamid Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in Egypt's Nile Delta starting to wobble on their feet, he puts them in a sack and drowns them in an irrigation canal.Rice to meet with 'Arab Quartet' in Egypt AFP via Yahoo! News - Mar 13 3:09 PM
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel to Egypt on March 25 to meet with the so-called Arab Quartet on Middle East peace, Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Tuesday.Egypt appoints first women judges Middle East Times - Mar 14 1:02 PM
CAIRO -- The Egyptian judiciary has appointed women judges for the first time in its history, the head of Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council said Wednesday.PublishAmerica Presents Amenhotep, Son of Hapu: A Tale of Egypt by Blake A. Willey [Press Release] PR.com - Mar 15 12:03 AM
PublishAmerica is proud to present Amenhotep, Son of Hapu: A Tale of Egypt by Chicago, Illinois s Blake A. Willey. One of the most realistic, fictional accounts of ancient Egyptian life ever penned, Scribe s Ascent is the first novel in the Amenhotep, Son of Hapu: A Tale of Egypt series. As Egypt s foremost éminent grise, Amenhotep narrates in Scribe s Ascent his rise from a miserable [PR.com - ...Egypt arrests 18 more Brotherhood members AFP via Yahoo! News - Mar 15 10:27 AM
Egyptian security forces arrested 18 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday, an official said, in the second round of detentions this week targeting the country's main opposition group.Egypt demands Israeli probe of alleged PoW slaughter AFP via Yahoo! News - Mar 13 11:28 AM
Egypt's foreign minister demanded on Tuesday that Israel open an official inquiry into claims in a documentary film that Israeli troops had executed Egyptian prisoners during the 1967 war.Italy renews attempts to block CIA kidnap trial Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mar 15 2:48 PM
The Italian government on Thursday made its second attempt to block a court case against U.S. CIA agents accused of kidnapping a Muslim cleric and flying him to Egypt, where he says he was tortured.Egypt arrests 10 Muslim Brotherhood members AFP via Yahoo! News - Mar 15 5:19 AM
Egyptian security forces arrested 10 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday, an official said, in the second round of detentions this week.Egypt security forces break up protest, four held AlertNet - Mar 15 3:07 PM
Source: Reuters CAIRO, March 15 (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces broke up a demonstration by an anti-government group on Thursday, beating activists protesting against planned constitutional amendments they see ... Mideast snow shuts schools AFP via Yahoo! News - Mar 15 9:50 AM
Snow blanketed much of Jordan on Thursday, briefly whited out road signs in Jerusalem as freak weather created high waves in Egypt's Red Sea and forced four ports to close.Cairo's popular waterpipes no safer than cigarettes Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mar 15 6:56 AM
A single session smoking Egypt's popular shisha waterpipes yields a nicotine intake equivalent to more than one pack of cigarettes, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.Egypt reports another H5N1 case CIDRAP - Mar 15 3:25 PM
Mar 15, 2007 (CIDRAP News) Egyptian authorities reported a case of H5N1 avian influenza in a 10-year-old girl yesterday, marking the country's seventh case this year and 25th overall.EGYPT: Bloggers struggle against heavy hand of Egyptian state AsiaMedia - Mar 15 12:56 PM
Abdel Kareem Soliman, a 22-year-old Egyptian blogger sentenced last month to four years in prison for insulting Islam and the presidency, might have been idealistic -- but he was not naïve.Telecom Egypt 2006 sales up 11% to EGP 9.5 billion Telecom.paper - Mar 14 2:05 AM
(TP) Telecom Egypt has reported revenue of EGP 9.5 billion for 2006, up 11 percent from EGP 8.5 billion in 2005, with EBITDA up to EGP 5.4 billion, from EGP 4.7 billion...The Muslim Brotherhood is Egypt's strongest opposition group[AP] Aljazeera - Mar 15 5:29 AM
Egyptian security forces have arrested 10 members of the Muslim Brotherhood, intensifying a crackdown ahead of a referendum due in April on constitutional amendments the group deeply opposes.Egypt wants probe into PoW slaughter Gulf Times - Mar 13 10:43 PM
CAIRO: Egypt s foreign minister yesterday demanded that Israel open an official inquiry into claims in a documentary film that Israeli troops had executed Egyptian prisoners during the 1967 war.Egypt: 4-year Sentence for Blogger Upheld New York Times - Mar 12 7:35 PM
An appeals court in Alexandria upheld the four-year prison sentence given to a blogger who had criticized conservative Muslims and was convicted of insulting Islam and Egypt?s president, court officials said. The blogger, Abdel Kareem Nabil, left, who is 22 and a former student at Al Azhar University, was sentenced last month to three years in prison on charges of insulting Islam and the Prophet ...25th bird flu case in Egypt News 24 South Africa - Mar 15 12:38 PM
An Egyptian girl has contracted the potentially deadly bird flu strain, bringing to 25 the number of people diagnosed with the disease since it broke out.Egyptian FM says Rice to visit Egypt on March 25 People's Daily - Mar 13 6:45 PM
Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit said on Tuesday that U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is scheduled to visit Egypt on March 25.03/15/2007 18:38 EGYPT- ISLAM AsiaNews.it - Mar 15 11:56 AM
» Campaign mounts to free the Egyptian blogger, imprisoned for having offended Islam . Abdel Kareem Nabil Soliman, 22 years old, is the first Egyptian to be condemned for having expressed his opinions via Internet.Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh: Crackdown by a clique Guardian Unlimited - Mar 15 5:15 PM
Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh: The current repression of Egypt's most popular party risks opening door to extremism.TransGlobe Energy Corporation Announces Well Results at Set #1, Nuqra Block 1, Egypt [Press Release] Market Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Mar 15 1:51 PM
TransGlobe Energy Corporation(AMEX: TGA) announces well results at Set #1.UN chief visits Egypt on March 23 People's Daily - Mar 13 5:30 PM
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is scheduled to pay a working visit to Egypt on March 23, the Egyptian official MENA news agency reported on Tuesday.Egypt appoints first women judges Middle East Online - Mar 15 2:27 AM
Thirty-one women chosen among members of the administrative bar and government lawyers.Police thwart demo in Egypt Deutsche Welle - Mar 15 2:21 PM
In the Egyptian capital Cairo, police have broken up a demonstration against amendments to the constitution, arresting at least 30 pro-democracy activists. The demonstrators were mainly from the national movement for change, Kefaya, and members of opposition parties.Bird flu detected in vaccinated Egypt flocks - source Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News - Mar 13 10:36 AM
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt has detected bird flu in chickens and ducks from reportedly vaccinated flocks in a sign that inoculation procedures in the most populous Arab country may be lacking, an animal health official said on Tuesday.Report: Israelites flee Egypt as Pharaoh s army believed drowned JTA - Mar 13 10:42 AM
Following a series of inexplicable natural disasters, a huge troop of Israelites is reported to have fled Egypt in the dead of night, while the pursuing Egyptian armies were last seen foundering in the Red Sea.Egypt: Country Leads the Way With Nepad E-Schools AllAfrica.com - Mar 13 1:57 PM
The Egyptian Minister of Education, Dr Yousry Al-Gamal, officially launched the NEPAD e-Schools Demonstration Project at Al-Haddain Secondary School in El Behaira Governate, Egypt in February 2007. The project is a joint venture of the Egyptian Government, HP Consortium, Oracle Consortium and the NEPAD e-Africa Commission.Eastward-looking Egypt boosts Kazakhstan trade Middle East Times - Mar 13 11:36 AM
CAIRO -- Egypt created a private sector company Tuesday to boost trade with Kazakhstan and said it hoped bilateral trade would increase enormously in coming years.egypt, israel: Row over alleged slain prisoners of war Monday Morning - Mar 15 4:08 AM
Cairo newspapers were filled with angry condemnations of Minister of National Infrastructure Benjamin Ben-Eliezer, accused in an Israeli documentary of commanding a unit that killed Egyptian prisoners during the 1967 war.Reality TV show in the Middle East follows young Arabs in America Jam! Showbiz - Mar 15 3:48 PM
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - A new reality TV show in the Middle East has a familiar set-up: Take a group of young adults, put them in an RV and film their every move as they drive across the United States.UWMC plans study tours to Europe, Greece, Egypt Wausau Daily Herald - Mar 13 1:00 PM
The University of Wisconsin Marathon County will offer credit-optional study tours to Amsterdam and Paris July 1 to 13, to Greece Aug. 14 to 27, and to Egypt in January. Other tours to China, India and the South Pacific are being considered for 2008. Entitled Forgotten Truth: Common Insights of Ancient Wisdom Traditions, the tours will include readings on the theme by Huston Smith, Joseph ...Bird flu detected in vaccinated Egypt flocks-source AlertNet - Mar 13 9:02 AM
Source: Reuters By Cynthia Johnston CAIRO, March 13 (Reuters) - Egypt has detected bird flu in chickens and ducks from reportedly vaccinated flocks in a sign that inoculation procedures in the most populous Arab ... FEATURE-Village ways fuel bird flu spread in rural Egypt AlertNet - Mar 13 6:02 AM
Source: Reuters (Adds WHO quote, colour) By Cynthia Johnston EZBET SIDI OMAR, Egypt, March 13 (Reuters) - When Attia Abdel-Hamid Hassan notices the chickens or ducks that he keeps at home in Egypt's Nile Delta ... Show follows young Arabs in America Jam! Showbiz - Mar 15 2:26 PM
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) A new reality TV show in the Middle East has a familiar set-up: Take a group of young adults, put them in an RV and film their every move as they drive across the United States.Telecom Egypt FY06 Profit Rises 16%, Revenue Up 11% - Quick Facts Nasdaq - Mar 13 4:22 AM
(RTTNews) - Tuesday, Telecom Egypt S.A.E (TEGPY.PK) reported that net profit for the full year 2006 rose 16% to EGP 2.4 billion from EGP 2.1 billion in the previous year. Earnings per share for the fiscal year increased 16% to EGP 1.36 from EGP 1.17 in the prior year.Oh mummy: Louvre's pharoah jars are not what they seemed AFP via Yahoo! News - Mar 14 1:21 PM
One of the star exhibits at the Louvre's egyptology wing, a collection of four jars said to have contained the embalmed organs of Egypt's greatest pharoah, Rameses II, have a sadly less glamorous vintage.A Closer Look at Standing Committees Foreign Visits donga.com - Mar 15 3:16 PM
Are Egypt and Greece the highlight of foreign excursions by lawmakers? This news paper obtained and analyzed a report on foreign visits paid by the lawmakers of the 17th National Assembly.Egypt appoints first batch of women judges People's Daily - Mar 14 6:44 PM
The Egyptian Supreme Judicial Council Wednesday approved the appointment of 31 women in the position of judge or chief justice, which made them the first batch of women judges in this Muslim country, state TV reported.Court upholds prison for Egypt blogger AP via Yahoo! News - Mar 12 7:35 AM
An Egyptian appeals court on Monday upheld the four-year prison sentence given to an Egyptian blogger who criticized conservative Muslims and was convicted of insulting Islam and Egypt's president, court officials said.Cairo's popular waterpipes 'no safer than cigarettes' Gulf News - Mar 15 2:41 PM
Cairo: A single session smoking Egypt's popular shisha waterpipes yields a nicotine intake equivalent to more than one pack of cigarettes, the World Health Organisation said on Wednesday.Uganda: Bombers Cautioned On Weights AllAfrica.com - Mar 15 2:28 PM
COACH Kent Musa has advised the bombers to maintain their weights a head of the National trials scheduled this weekend in preparation for the April 10 slated Zone V championship in Egypt.Nazif: Al Rajhi Saudi group invests one billion to reclaim 100,000 feddans in EGypt ArabicNews.com - Mar 13 7:02 PM
Daily Arab News about the Arabic world, Arabic news for Country by country news coverage. Politics, culture, recipes, book reviews, weather, sports, arts. Covers Egypt, Egyptian life, pyramids, Lebanon, Iraq, the Gulf, its oil, Arabian horses & camel races.*Telecom Egypt Posts FY06 EPS Of EGP 1.36 Vs EGP 1.17 Last Year Nasdaq - Mar 13 1:06 AM
(RTTNews) - Telecom Egypt (TEGPY.PK) posts FY06 EPS of EGP 1.36 Vs EGP 1.17 last year.2007 Nissan Sunny Super Saloon from Egypt Carsurvey.org - Mar 15 8:02 AM
Still everything is OK. Every thing is going OK. Fuel consumption is a little high, the driver's door is a little bit tough to close maybe; when I go to get it serviced, it will be fixed.Egypt reports 25th human bird flu case People's Daily - Mar 14 6:12 PM
The Egyptian Health Ministry Wednesday said a 10-year-old girl was tested positive to the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus, bringing the number of bird flu human cases to 25 in this populous Arab nation, the official news agency MENA reported.Egypt nabs Brotherhood members Sunday Times - Mar 15 7:29 AM
CAIRO - Egyptian security forces have arrested 10 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood, an official said, in the second round of detentions this week.Egypt plans to import 14 mln tonnes of Kazakhstan s wheat a year Itar-Tass - Mar 13 3:39 AM
CAIRO, March 13 (Itar-Tass) - Egypt will import 14 million tonnes of Kazakhstan s wheat a year at a competitive price, Egyptian presidential spokesman Suleiman Awad said on Tuesday.Shia Muslims in the Mideast Foreign Relations - Mar 15 9:01 AM
Is a Shiite crescent extending from Beirut to Tehran emerging in the Middle East, as Sunni Arab leaders in Egypt and Jordan have suggested? Further, should Shiite revivalism be cause for concern among the conservative Sunni monarchies in the region, much less for U.S. foreign policymakers?Telecom Egypt announces FY 2006 consolidated results AME Info - Mar 13 1:38 AM
Telecom Egypt (TE) (Ticker: ETEL.CA; TEEG.LN), today announced its consolidated financial results for the twelve months ending 31 December, 2006.Tomb Raider: Anniversary - Day four Games Radar - Mar 15 12:49 PM
So you've heard all about the game from the developer's point of view, but what's it actually like? We were given an exclusive walkthrough of the new Egypt level at Eidos' London office and came away with an excited feeling. Why excited?Destination unknown: the Mideast road movie The Daily Star Lebannon - Mar 15 2:17 PM
It is difficult and also foolish to generalize about Middle Eastern cinema. Whatever commonalities exist in the region from Iran to Turkey to Egypt to Morocco, they are refracted into a multiplicity of difference when it comes to cultural production. All the more striking, then, when you find a strong chord binding the work of filmmakers.Case closed? Al-Ahram Weekly - Mar 15 8:21 AM
On 5 June when Egypt remembers the 40 anniversary of the horrific military defeat it sustained in 1967, the painful memories will be compounded by the recent Israeli documentary over Israel's alleged involvement in killing unarmed Egyptian soldiers, possibly POWs.Nicholson out of Beijing Olympic Games The Herald - Mar 15 2:51 PM
TOP Zimbabwean clay target shottist Mike Nicholson missed automatic qualification for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games by a whisker when he grabbed a silver medal at the 8th African Shooting Championships in Cairo, Egypt, last week.On to Algeria Al-Ahram Weekly - Mar 15 8:24 AM
The qualification came after Egypt thrashed Ethiopia 4-0 at home on Sunday, overturning a 2-0 loss in the first- leg. Defender Karim Zikri opened the score line after just eight minutes when he met Ahmed Samir Farag's cross at the far post with a superb diving header.Telecom Egypt profit up 16% AME Info - Mar 13 2:08 AM
Telecom Egypt has posted a 16% increase in full-year profit to $425m for 2006, according to a company statement. Revenues rose 11% to $1.68bn. TE derived 69% of its earnings from retail services during the year.Egypt: Judge Seeks to Have HRinfo's Website, 20 Others Blocked AllAfrica.com - Mar 14 12:11 PM
HRinfo condemns Judge Abdel Fattah Mourad for taking on a case calling for the Egyptian government to block 21 Egyptian websites and blogs, as reported by the "Rozal Youssef" newspaper on 2 March 2007.COMMUNITY CALENDAR Dallas Morning News - Mar 15 12:57 AM
EGYPTOLOGY: The North Texas Chapter of the American Research Center in Egypt presents a talk on "The First Egyptologist: Khaemwase" at 7 p.m. Friday at SMU, Fondren Science Building, Room 131. Call 214-692-6600 or visit www.arce-ntexas.org.Enough rights? Al-Ahram Weekly - Mar 15 8:23 AM
No doubt there are many reasons to be pleased as a woman in Egypt now, but there are equally many reasons to be gloomy. This came to my attention while watching a talk show about the first woman judge, when a male friend remarked, "haven't you had enough rights?"Italy: Amnesty International Urges Italian Minister to Forward CIA Extradition Requests to U.S. Authorities Amnesty International - Mar 15 3:24 AM
Amnesty International today called on Italian Minister of Justice Clemente Mastella to forward to the U.S. authorities the extradition requests for 26 U.S. citizens, most of them thought to be CIA agents. The requests have been issued against them in connection with the abduction of Muslim Cleric Abu Omar in February 2003 from Italy to Egypt.Muslim nations set up US forum AFP via Yahoo! News - 2 hours, 51 minutes ago
Envoys of 57 member nations of the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) launched a Washington forum Thursday to discuss common concerns and act as a key link for the Muslim world in the United States.Louvre's Pharoah jars are not what they seemed Middle East Times - Mar 15 3:14 AM
PARIS -- One of the star exhibits at the Louvre's Egyptology wing, a collection of four jars said to have contained the embalmed organs of Egypt's greatest Pharoah, Ramses II, have a sadly less glamorous vintage.Now the stick Al-Ahram Weekly - Mar 15 8:21 AM
Many analysts would agree that the United States has recently been adopting a softer tone when urging reforms and democratisation in Egypt.Modern technology reveals mummy's past AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
The baby mummy had a European mom, and likely came from a wealthy family. But where he lived and why he died and at such a young age remain a mystery. The mummy, exhibited for the first time Thursday at the Saint Louis Science Center, has been the year-long focus of an international team of investigators. The museum said it may be the most extensive research project ever undertaken on a ...Egypt court rejects blogger appeal The Manila Times - Mar 14 8:41 AM
An Egyptian court on Monday upheld a four-year sentence against a blogger convicted of insulting religion and defaming the president, a verdict condemned by rights groups as a threat to free speech.Deal reached on U.N. sanctions vs. Iran AP via Yahoo! News - 1 hour, 33 minutes ago
The world's major powers agreed Thursday on modest new sanctions against Iran for its refusal to freeze uranium enrichment, sending a strong signal that the U.N. Security Council will likely remain united in seeking to rein in Iran's nuclear ambitions.FACT JV with Adi Group of Syria The Economic Times - Mar 15 6:59 AM
KOCHI: The Union Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilisers will form a consortium of Indian companies including FACT for taking 50 % equity in the proposed Rs 3000 crore joint venture urea plant in Egypt with Syria-based Adi Group.As Asian Art Becomes a Citywide Attraction New York Times - 1 hour, 50 minutes ago
At this year?s International Asian Art Fair, Sotheby?s may make the most news in the Chinese art department, and Christie?s in the Japanese.FACT-NFL consortium pick up 50 pc stake in Egyptian urea plant .:. NewKerala.Com, India News Channel New Kerala - Mar 15 10:19 AM
Kochi, Mar 15: State-run Fertilisers and Chemicals Travancore Ltd (FACT) along with its consortium partner will acquire 50 per cent equity in the proposed Rs 3,000 crore joint venture urea plant in Egypt.Arutz 7 TV Israel National News - Mar 15 8:20 AM
(IsraelNN.com) A tunnel collapsed near Rafiah on Thursday afternoon, killing one Arab resident who was in the tunnel at the time. The tunnel had been used for smuggling weapons from Egypt into the Gaza region.Ghosal exits The Hindu - Mar 15 1:16 PM
CHENNAI: World No. 9 and second seed Karim Darwish of Egypt defeated Indian ace Saurav Ghosal 11-2, 11-2, 11-3 for a place in the quarterfinals of the $40,000 CIMB Kuala Lumpur squash Open, according to a press release here. ...Commentary: Failed states new threat to Egypt Middle East Times - Mar 14 3:20 AM
CAIRO -- In an interview published last fall, King Abdullah II of Jordan warned against the eruption of civil war in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine. Indeed, civil war is an imminent threat in three out of the five Arab countries in the eastern Mediterranean.Cairo hails appointment of female judges africast.com - Mar 15 2:09 AM
CAIRO, March 15 -- The Egyptian judiciary has appointed female judges for the first time in its history, the head of Egypt's Supreme Judicial Council said on Wednesday.Frederick's Amazing Race The Frederick News-Post - Mar 14 11:05 PM
FREDERICK -- The contestants on CBS' 'Amazing Race' have been to Cairo, Egypt, St. Petersburg, Russia and Punta Ballena, Uruguay. Frederick's version of the popular game show offered locations such as the Carroll Creek parking deck, Shab Row and the C. Burr Artz Library.A Palestinian Unity Government: Trying to Change the Game Time Magazine - Mar 15 4:05 PM
It falls short of what the U.S. demanded and faces numerous obstacles, but the Hamas-Fatah deal may be as good as it gets Egypt court jails four over theatre fire AlertNet - Mar 14 12:46 PM
Source: Reuters CAIRO, March 14 (Reuters) - An Egyptian appeals court on Wednesday sentenced four government employees to jail terms ranging between one and three years for negligence over a 2004 theatre fire that ... Egyptian FM: No changes to be made to Saudi plan before Riyadh summit Haaretz Daily - Mar 15 1:05 AM
Egypt's Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit said Wednesday that the Saudi peace initiative would not be subject to changes before the Riyadh Summit scheduled for the end of March. He added that the Egyptians expected Israel to accept the initiative and thereby promote the peace process.Egyptian film mogul plans al Qaeda movie Reuters via Yahoo! News - Mar 15 12:32 PM
A leading Egyptian director is preparing to produce a movie about the rise of al Qaeda, and he promises to pull no punches in what would probably be the first Arab film about the militant Islamist group.Egypt lawmakers seek damages from Israel UPI - Mar 13 11:41 AM
Egyptian lawmakers from the ruling party Tuesday demanded that Israel pay $10 billion in compensation for killing prisoners of war in 1967.Abdullah urges fresh impetus to Arab plan Gulf Times - Mar 14 11:18 PM
Pro-US allies Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Egypt said yesterday they will seek to give a new push to an Arab peace plan with Israel aimed at ending decades of conflict when they hold an Arab League summit this month.Arutz 7 TV Israel National News - Mar 15 1:20 AM
(IsraelNN.com) Egypt and the Palestinian Authority (PA) have thrown the diplomatic ball into Israel's court, rejecting any changes in the Saudi peace plan and establishing a PA unity government without recognizing Israel or denouncing terrorism. Mummies & Mosques : Local pair of bicyclers experience Muslim hospitality in Egyptian desert Rapid City Journal - Mar 14 10:55 PM
We are standing under a concrete awning in the Great Western Desert of Egypt. The temperature is 104 degrees in the shade. Out on the road in the sun our Brunton compass reads 119 degrees.Weighing up losses to Iraq's heritage AFP via Yahoo! News - Mar 15 11:47 AM
Archaeology in Iraq these days, explains the new caretaker of the country's 5,000-year-old heritage, is less about making new discoveries than finding out what has already been stolen.Mr Mohamed Ali Alabbar, Chairman, Emaar Properties statement on Egypt AME Info - Mar 14 1:08 AM
In a press statement, Mr Mohamed Ali Alabbar, Chairman, Emaar Properties PJSC, announced that the company has signed a final committed deal with its Egyptian partners on Monday, March 12, 2007, in Cairo, to buy the entire shares of Emaar Misr for Development Company S.A.E.WSU president to lecture on alt-energy research in Egypt Detroit Free Press - Mar 12 5:15 AM
Wayne State University President Irvin Reid will present a lecture about the school's alternative-energy research programs this week at the 10th International Conference on Energy and the Environment in Luxor, Egypt.Dubai, Abu Dhabi top MICE locations in the Middle East Khaleej Times - Mar 14 8:15 PM
ABU DHABI The top five destinations for the multi-billion dollar, meetings, incentives, conference and exhibition (MICE) business for the years to come will be Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Egypt, Morocco and Oman, says a study issued by leading industry consultants.Saurav Ghosal beaten .:. NewKerala.Com, India News Channel New Kerala - Mar 15 1:30 AM
Chennai, Mar 15: National champion Saurav Ghosal succumbed to the aggressive strokeplay by World Number 9, Karim Darwish of Egypt 2-11, 2-11, 3-11 in the pre-quarterfinal tie of the USD 40,000 CIMB Squash Open championship in Kuala Lumpur.