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What do President Mohamed Morsy’s brain, the Constituent Assembly and Cairo traffic all have in common? None of them, alas, operate at the speed of light. In other words, they all have mass.
There’s nothing particularly astonishing about...
The theory of evolution is atheism, said Ahmed Shafiq, a 15-year-old schoolboy who happened to share the name of the former presidential candidate, standing outside a secondary school in Agouza.
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“Infectious diseases don’t care about politics or elections,” says Ahmed Abdel Hady, a farmer from Tabluha in the Nile Delta governorate of Monufiya. Abdel Hady is referring to the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease that started in...
After a 16-month interim period that often felt like anything but “transitional,” the election to presumably conclude this phase is finally upon us. The presidential candidates’ political programs, histories, demeanors and even...
State-owned papers continue to hype the 25th Africa-France Summit, which is being held in the Riviera city of Nice. Al-Akhbar’s headline reads, “Mubarak directs a message to the world to support Africa in the opening of the summit today.” The...
State-owned papers lead today with news of the upcoming 25th Africa-France summit, where President Mubarak is expected to be the only African president to give a speech in the opening session tomorrow.
Held in the Riviera city of Nice, the summit...
State and independent papers lead with coverage of President Hosni Mubarak's series of meetings yesterday with the Kenyan prime minister and Congolese president, as well as the foreign ministers of Germany, Spain and Pakistan.
Al-Ahram reports that...
In 2002, states at the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed to significantly reduce the rate of loss of biodiversity by 2010. The target was, according to the recently published third edition of the Global Biodiversity Outlook report, totally...
Al-Gomhurriya leads today with a headline quoting Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri saying, “I have benefitted from the wisdom of the president [Hosni Mubarak] before visiting the US.” Hariri, who is travelling to Washington today for the first...
Egypt’s rights in the Nile are both legally and practically unresolved, Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif is quoted as saying in state-run papers. Nazif, however, assured journalists at a press conference yesterday that Egypt's rights will be defended, and...
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