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The Purple Rose of Cairo

Art Limited (Free subscription) | yesterday

Egypt lifts ban on its doctors working in Saudi

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

CAIRO, Egypt -- Egypt is again allowing its doctors to work in Saudi Arabia, lifting a ban imposed last month after two Egyptian doctors working there were sentenced to lengthy prison terms and 1,500 lashes each.

Captured by pirates, ship captain recalls ordeal

allvoices (Free subscription) | yesterday

Posted: Tuesday, December 02, 2008 10:48 AM Filed Under: Cairo, Egypt NBC News’ Charlene Gubash interviewed Mahmoud Hammad, an Egyptian captain whose ship was hijacked by Somali pirates. He gives a first-hand account of the 23-day ordeal he and his crew went through. CAIRO – Egyptian Captain Mahmoud Hammad quickly dispelled any notion that Somali pirates treat their captives well. "Any movement and...

• Captured by pirates, ship captain recounts ordeal - WorldBlog

OPEC Has Handed You an Opportunity

Fool.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

No Cairo cuts means sliding crude, but probably only for a couple of weeks.

Egypt's top cleric condemns move to block pilgrimage to Mecca

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday

Cairo - Egypt's leading Muslim cleric Mohammed Tantawi said on Tuesday that preventing Muslims from doing their hajj pilgrimage is a heinous crime, even as tensions brewed over moves by a Palestinian group that are making the Saudi Arabian pilgrima...

Guns Without Bullets (cont.)

ChooseTheHero.com (Free subscription) | yesterday

Guns Without Bullets (cont.) This Just Sounds Indeed Likely…. Continuing this notion (picked up first-hand by your humble correspondent in Cairo a few years back): At the Sivaji rail platform on the November 28 [sic], eyewitnesses told the Belfast Telegraph that armed Indian police refused to shoot back when the terrorists opened fire. Even when the terrorists stopped to reload their guns, [...]

Holding Gaza hostage

Indybay newswire (Free subscription) | yesterday

Gaza's humanitarian crisis escalates as the world watches in silence. Dina Ezzat reports from Cairo, Saleh Al-Naami from Gaza

UK Muslim leader: "In an Islamic state, non-Muslims will have to wear a sign to show what they are – it should say Kaffir. We won’t discriminate on he

Monkey in the Middle (Free subscription) | yesterday

Hat tip to Jihad Watch View at YouTube "The subject peoples," [i.e., the dhimmis] according to a manual of Islamic law endorsed by Al-Azhar University in Cairo, must "pay the non-Muslim poll tax (jizya)" and "are distinguished from Muslims in dress..." ('Umdat al-Salik, o11.3). RANTING Anjem Choudary launched an astonishing anti-British tirade as terror experts warned yesterday of a

Egypt: Online Journalism in the Arab World

Global Voices Online (Free subscription) | yesterday

Lebanese journalist Bassam Twaini presented a talk entitled The State of Online Journalism in the Arab World, at a conference in Cairo, Egypt, reports Saudi blogger Yaser Al Ghaslan [Ar], who was present at the event.

Lampposts worth over $900,000 stolen from Egyptian highway

Russia News Net (Free subscription) | yesterday

CAIRO, December 2 (RIA Novosti) - Police in northern Egypt are on the lookout for 400 steel lampposts worth just over $900,000 dollars that were stolen from a busy highway, national media reported on ...

Mubarak pressed to intervene for doctors jailed in Saudi Arabia

The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday

Cairo- Egyptians are hoping that President Hosny Mubarak will seek a royal pardon for two Egyptian doctors sentenced to whippings and jail time in Saudi Arabia when Mubarak visits the kingdom Friday. A Saudi court in October sentenced Egyptian doctor...

Dubai's island project slows down

Malaysia Property News (Free subscription) | yesterday

CAIRO: The Dubai state developer building palm-shaped islands off the city's coast said on Sunday it has cut about 15 percent of its staff amid a work slowdown - the clearest sign yet that the Gulf's property boom is hurting from the global economic slump. Nakheel, which is owned by the emirate's government, said in an emailed statement that 500 employees have been laid off and it is scaling back work...

World news: Tough economy converts Egyptian drivers to gas

euronews24 (Free subscription) | yesterday

CAIRO (Reuters) – With black smoke belching from battered vehicles on the congested streets of Cairo and the sickly smell of exhaust hanging in the air, Mohamed Daoud's taxi glides quietly along on cheap, clean fuel. His

Tough economy converts Egyptian drivers to gas

Reuters (Free subscription) | yesterday

CAIRO (Reuters) - With black smoke belching from battered vehicles on the congested streets of Cairo and the sickly smell of exhaust hanging in the air, Mohamed Daoud's taxi glides quietly along on cheap, clean fuel.

Tough economy converts Egyptian drivers to gas

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday

With black smoke belching from battered vehicles on the congested streets of Cairo and the sickly smell of exhaust hanging in the air, Mohamed Daoud's taxi glides quietly along on cheap, clean fuel.