AMMAN –– A demonstration in the Jordanian capital was a wash on Friday, as rain soaked the city a week after violent protests here called for the toppling of the monarchy.
Jordanians turned out in much smaller numbers outside the Al-...
Egypt’s Salafis are branching out into business, bringing their ultraconservative teaching of Islam into the world of modern finance.
The Salafi Dawah, the largest organization of ultraconservative Islamists in Egypt, founded a non-...
Leaked sewage and human error likely caused over 1,500 residents in the village of Sansaft in Monufiya governorate to fall critically ill this summer, two researchers at Monufiya University said this week at a follow-up meeting on the...
After a summer of high-profile cases of tainted water across Egypt, one researcher says he has a cheap, practical solution to contaminated water in the country’s rural areas.
Ahmed Shaaban, a water pollution professor, has designed a...
Amid a slew of recent labor protests, drivers of white taxis blocked a main Cairo traffic artery last week, parking dozens of cabs in front of the Cabinet building. Their protest, drivers say, was meant to call attention to the efficacy of a three...
Abdallah Seleem doesn’t watch the news anymore. It’s disheartening to see how far Egypt has slid from its initial optimism after Hosni Mubarak stepped down last year, he says — it causes him too much stress about the future....