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By Jeremy Reynalds Correspondent for ASSIST News Service CAIRO (ANS) -- Sectarian violence targeting Christian Coptic inhabitants of the Upper Egyptian town of Dairout, 313 kilometers south of Cairo, erupted recently. According...
Many years ago, our dear friend Robin Moger (a translator and Arabic professor today) came bounding out of his room in the Arabist household, waving a book and raving about an Egyptian writer he’s just discovered and who he...
40 to 50 people injured when trains collide outside of Cairo Eighty ambulances were sent to the scene Train traveling from Cairo to Asyut hit a stationary train Rescuers built bridge from tree branches and vehicles to reach...
CAIRO (AFP) – Muslims students stoned Coptic Christian churches and homes in a southern Egyptian village on Saturday after four Muslims suspected of killing a Copt were kept in custody, police said. The unrest began when the...
Press-service of Russian Emergency Situations Ministry | Buy this image CAIRO, October 18 (RIA Novosti) - Eleven people died and eight were injured as a van collided with two trucks on a highway in Egypt's Asyut province on...
What makes a dissident stand up after being knocked down again and again? Ian Bullock Ian Bullock 86 The Virtual World / The Natural World reallife_t.jpg Splash Image: T he life of dissident Fathi Eljahmi – who died this May...
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak (L) speaks with U.S. President Barack Obama during a meeting in the Oval Office of the White House on Aug. 18. (Photo: Jim Watson/ AFP-Getty Images) In the speech he gave in Cairo in June,...
Even if the rumoured election 'battle' emerges, the real fight is within the ruling party over protecting the interests of elites Egypt's ageing leader may have defiantly promised to remain in office "until his last breath" but...
BEIRUT (Zawya Dow Jones)--Saudi Arabia's , Thursday started its first flights from Riyadh and Jeddah to Egypt's Sharm El Sheikh and Asyut to meet growing demand, Saudi-based Al Riyadh daily reports Saturday. The move comes...
Egyptian Local Development Minister Dr. Abd-al-Salam Mahjub announced that Egypt's Supreme Committee for Bird- flu Combating will hold an abrupt meeting within hours to discuss the bird- flu unpleasant situation, adding that...
