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FOREIGN

Gaza militants launched the rockets from Sinai...

 

Reuters suggests olive branch in river row...

 

US citizen on his way home from Cairo. Meanwhile, another US citizen not allowed in... Earlier: American Muslim stranded in Cairo...

 

Mubarak visits Algeria...

 

Is the border open or closed? Earlier: Opening Gaza... Opening the Gaza border... Earlier reports from AP, CS Monitor and the Guardian... Meanwhile, a day of flotilla attack protests... Plus: an analysis of the long term position...

 

Dry lesson... Diplomat flurry to contain Nile crisis... AFP analyzes... Earlier: Controversial Nile water treaty becomes reality...

 

Lebanon seeks justice in mob murder case...

 

Biden on the way...

 

Two Egyptian peacekeepers killed in Darfur ambush...

 

Gazans cut through new security border...

 

Israel trying to convince Egypt to ease up on nuclear pact pressure... Earlier: Netanyahu worried about Egypt bringing up Israel's nukes at a conference...

 

Murder and revenge in Lebanon...

 

Stepping up maritime security at Gaza border... Earlier: Mubarak defends Gaza border barrier...

 

 

 

MISC

Arabic character internet goes online in Egypt...

 

 

Plus: an update on the unified call to prayer idea...

 

Bags made from recycled billboards...

 

Another first... Amazing desert meteor crater discovery...

 

Egyptian American watch expert passes away...

 

UK inquest on Ashraf Marwan doesn't answer questions... Earlier: What really happened? Ashraf Marwan inquest begins in London... Reports from AP, Observer, and Evening Standard...

 

LA Times and NY Times on the Arab Contractors bus driver who went on a killing rampage...

 

Arabian Nights controversy continues to get coverage, this time from LA Times...


Higher cost... Will new smoking tax make a difference?

 

NY Times profiles the Librarian of Alexandria...

 

Suspicious suitcase... Another animal smuggling case...

 

Two-headed calf... AP photo..

 

Environmentalists may take legal action... Oil spill debate  ongoing... The government's reaction here and here... Earlier: Hurghada oil spill spells bad news for coral life...

 

FP delves deep into the 1001 Nights controversy...

 

Framing changing Alexandria through the fortunes of a local bar...

 

Up in smoke... AFP, BBC and AP all cover Alexandria's new smoking ban...

 

Interesting Garden City villa restoration project..

 

Massive lawyers strike...

 

Terrorist or angry teen -- CNN tries to find out...

 

Brit teen's Hurghada love saga over...

 

Losing citizenship if you marry an Israeli...

 

Courting controversy... ABC does a very lively piece on Zahi Hawass...

 

Civil suit against Hisham Talaat Mustafa dropped...

 

Spectacle... Dirt bikes rock the Pyramids...

 

Teacher comes back from the States with a lot of weapons in their luggage...

 

Call for 1001 nights book ban gets coverage...

 

Retrial for Hisham Talaat Mustafa...

 

Record breaking price for classic Egyptian painting...

 

Diplomats to live in New Cairo...

Big deal over British couple who went to Hurghada instead of Sharm El Sheikh...

 

How heavy security round the US Embassy has changed life in Garden City..

 

BBC goes back to the issue of landmines left in Alamein after WWII

 

Recounting a  desert adventure...

 

Egyptian in US doing very well at Paypal...

 

Meet the entrepreneur behind Makany and other new restaurants...

 

New Azhar sheikh profiled... Newsweek takes a nuanced look at late Azhar Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi... Will Ali Gomaa replace him? The Arabist sums it up...

 

Skype ban on mobile... Earlier: Mobile VoIP banned...

 

 

 

ECONOMY

How many apartments do Saudi Arabians own in Egypt?


Sea and sky...Civil aviation sector doing well, reports Oxford...

 

Meanwhile, new financial arrangements mean more domestic gas... Big rig on its way over from the Gulf of Mexico...

 

Big business... Bloomberg talks to a town-building Sawiris brother...

 

Planning for a major power plant...

 

Port Said tunnel planned for Suez Canal...

 

New chairman for the bourse...

 

Bourse continues to drop...

 

IRIN looks at malnutrition in the slums...

 

Future uncertain... Madinaty ruling shocks...

 

Looking at 5.8 per cent growth...

 

New opportunities... Private partners for public transport revamp...

 

Vodafone is not for sale...

 

Cairo real estate giants eye Manoura...

 

FP on why the minimum wage is important... Earlier:  minimum wage protests increase... NY Times describes the scene..

 

AP looks at the economics of buying meat...

 

More gas than expected...

 

Big Chinese oil investments...

 

Oxford predicts changes in the auto industry...

 

Is South African mobile giant about to buy Orascom?

 

Global luxury good maker teaming up with Orascom to develop property in Aswan...

 

Finally demonstrating for a higher minimum wage... Editorial is optimistic...

 

Nazif's economic prognosis...


 Ups and downs... Budget talk -- from LA Times, Reuters, and Business Week...

 

Daimler being investigated for Egypt bribes...

 

 

 

POLITICS

 

 

Mubarak gives Revolution Day speech... Focuses on economic issues... Guardian interprets...

 

Very special report... The Economist produces a must-read multi-part special report on Egypt's changing political, social and economic landscape. Not sure what their pay wall policy is, but here are a few choice links...

 

First, the intro...  An interesting photo accompanies this story... Meanwhile, the author -- Max Rodenbeck -- weighs in: "The vast majority have grown so inured to having no say in the course of events that the reflex is to float patiently rather than try to paddle...." 

 

In the same article, there's a small but telling graphic showing demographic changes over the past 20 years... Here, the magazine argues that religiosity is increasing but not as a political force... Plus: Lots of statistics.... Sections on pure politics... pure economy... Education and its ramifications... And: Looking at the big money...

 

 

Mubarak at military parade amidst health rumors...

 

Trying to resolve controversies in Sinai... Bedouin activists released...

 

Gamal Mubarak speaks up about the Khaled Said case... Silent protests continue...

 

Earlier: Khaled Said update... National has most comprehensive coverage of police arrests... Other reports from CNN, BBC, Reuters and VOA...


No outlet... UN blunt on lack of youth political participation...

 

Time assesses the Baradie situation right now... The National interviews him...

 

Baradie makes some astute remarks to LA Times...

 

FP says expats getting excited...

 

AP describes mixed feelings about Mubarak...

 

Different systems... Interesting reflections on the legacy of the royal family...

 

Baradie and other opposition activists disagree...

 

Strange days... FP tries to figure out why the opposition wont unite...

 

Khaled Said... FP on why the emergency law is responsible...

 

Earlier: Sustainable anger... The Khaled Said case continues to dominate the headlines... Second autopsy sparks more anger... Guardian covers Baradie's participation in Alex protest... CNN visits Khaled's family...

 

Meanwhile, tough words from Human Rights Watch... and a strong column on Huffington Post...

 

Plus: social media plays a strong role in spreading the word... Examples include a Facebook photo set... a Flickr photo... A You Tube video... and, of course, the main Twitter feed...

 

Seeking justice... Trying to put the Khaled Said case in perspective... Protests continue, as do security clampdowns on them... Earlier: Protests covered by Jazeera and AFP... State Department statement...

 

Accountability lost... Beating death exposes emergency law flaws...

 

Some sort of accountability? Pursuing rockslide negligence... Plus, top bank official resigns...

 

CS Monitor wonder if Obama is starting to prod Egypt on human rights? Earlier: Washington Post continues to ask the Obama administration to change its tactics on Egypt...

 

Foreign Policy ponders US support for change...

 

Reuters looks at Shura election results... Plus, CS Monitor's take...

 

Very long sum up of the political climate with historical data to boot...

 

Ruling party wants Mubarak to run again...

 

Where is Baradie?

 

Endowments or aid? The future of US assistance to Egypt gets complicated...

 

Carnegie looks at the political party map...

 

Controversy over human rights activist trial...


2 more years... Emergency law extension covered by Global Post and NY Times... Protests and opposition from many quarters...

 

Is the skype ban about politics?

 

Challenge ahead? Analysis of Mubarak's labor day speech from CS Monitor and BBC... Meanwhile, NY Times quote sums up situation well: “It is about the ambiguity of the future with regards to the transfer of power, be it in the near or far future. There is increasing anxiety, which used to be prevalent among limited circles of intellectuals and elites, but now it has spread throughout society.”

 

Foreign Policy refers to emerging political intrigue...

 

Previewing the upcoming elections...

 

Bloggers debate Mubarak's health...

 

The reappearance of Gamal Mubarak...

 

Changing moods... Newsweek tries to interpret the Baradie effect... BBC puts it in dramatic terms...

 

Embassy spokesman responds to the Post...

 

Clashing with police over the emergency law... Reuters asks experts what it all means... A personal account...

 

Mock elections in front of the DC embassy...

 

The heat is on... Mubarak welcomes political debate, but within limits... Vows elections will be fair...

 

Has Baradie surrounded himself with the wrong people... Kefaya may agree...

 

Huffington Post covers ruling party MPs calling for shooting demonstrators...

 

MP's comments cause anger...

 

Earlier: Near and far... Protest permission makes the NY Times... Suggestions from the Guardian on how to make protests more effective... Demos make the cartoons... Meanwhile, Twittering protestors inspire Library of Congress project...

 

Arabist notices Musawar's Baradie cheap shot...

 

 

 

 

 

MEDIA
 Rapid change press... "Seismic media evolution..."

 

Multilayered look at the state of the press...

 

 

 

CRASH WATCH
8 sentenced over train crash...

 

Tough positions... Editorial on trains, ministers and accountability... AFP story lists various errors that led to the train crash, including drugs... Train crash blame begins... Earlier: Train tragedy near Giza...

 

 

 

ARCHAEOLOGY

Very colorful tombs discovered...

 

King Tut's chariot on its way to NY...

 

Zahi Hawass's new TV show gets panned by the NY Times...

 

Meanwhile, Newsweek is excited about antiquities tourism...

 

More underwater antiquity finds...

 

Step by step... First phase of new grand museum complete...

 

The digging never stops ... Ancient mayor's tomb found...

 

Underwater explorations of Cleopatra's palace...

 

Conference to unite countries who have had artifacts stolen... Reports from BBC, Bloomberg, AP, VOA...

 

Nilometer found in Luxor...

 

Tremendous ancient coin find...

 

 

 

SHOWBIZ
 Review of new documentary -- Garbage Dreams...

 

LA Times looks at a controversial new film...

 

Paris Hilton at the Pyramids... and at a car show...

 

Scheherazade film wins African award...

 

Mariah Carey puts out a fire before Cairo concert...


Khaled El Nabawy in new film about CIA...

 

Showtime... At Cannes, another couple of  features from Variety on Egyptian cinema...

 

The National examines the legacy of Youssef Chahine...

 

Elton John ban getting bad press... Guardian steps in... Daily Star editorial...

 

Egyptian country music singer from Oklahoma coming to the Middle East...

 

Why did Nicholas Cage buy a pyramid tomb?

 

AP does a story about the Beyonce concert controversy... Earlier: Opposite extremes... A Guardian columnist riffs on the upcoming  Beyonce concert...

 

CNN compares Mahmoud Reda to Fred Astaire...

 

 

 

SPORTS

Should be there... Analysis of the 3-1 loss to England from Telegraph, BBC, Guardian...

 

Earlier: Dropping down to 17th in FIFA rankings...

 

Another emerging international football star....

 

Goalie gets FIFA ban...

 

Lobby fail... FIFA penalizes Egypt for Algeria game issues... Algeria not satisfied...

 

 

 

 

 

FOREIGN
 Netanyahu worried about Egypt bringing up Israel's nukes at a conference...

 

Stepping up maritime security at Gaza border... Earlier: Mubarak defends Gaza border barrier...

 

Xinhua calls diplomatic efforts unfulfilling but indispensable... Trying to get Abbass and Netanyahu to meet... More...

 

Border guard killed as Gaza situation becomes more complicated...

 

No more aid convoys through Egypt to Gaza... Galloway declared persona non grata... Video of clashes...

 

 

 

MISC
 New Azhar sheikh profiled...

 

Newsweek takes a nuanced look at late Azhar Sheikh Mohamed Tantawi... Will Ali Gomaa replace him? The Arabist sums it up...

 

Skype ban on mobile... Earlier: Mobile VoIP banned...

 

CS Monitor briefly examines the transformation of zar...

 

Mubarak granddaughter born to Gamal and Khadiga...

 

New underwater nature reserve near Salloum...

 

NY Times looks at the politics of synagogue restoration...

Top court backs women judges...

 

AP looks at new fiction wave...

 

Boston philanthropist who supported conjoined twins passes away...


 Capital magnet... The National: "Most capitals are magnets, but the speed with which [Cairo] has grown in the last century is testament both to a remarkable centripetal power and to a surrounding vacuum of opportunity."

 

Tough sell.. NY Times examines attempts to ban shisha...

 

Retrial for Hisham Talaat Mustafa... Reports from AP, AFP, Reuters, and NY Times..

 

CS Monitor examines religious ring tones...

 

AP: "when the amboobas stopped coming, the angry outcry spread fast..."

 

Graphic warning... The National looks at the latest anti-smoking labels...

 

Organ transplant law on the way...

 

Veil as barrier to harassment?

 

Guardian goes to Basata...

 

Valuable coin... King Farouk's old nickel continues to make headlines...

 

Try tribal... Going beyond package tourism...

 

Tough call... Crazy new ideas for revamping Ramsis square...

 

British newlywed tragedy on the Nile...

 

Niqab ban reversed... Earlier:

Court upholds niqab ban...

 

Fatwa against Koranic ringtones...


Solar energy on the rooftops...

 

Ancient Coffin Smuggled in 1884 coming back...

 

One step back... Setback for women judges...

 

Another holiday... LA Times notices the rise of Valentine's...

 

Egyptian immigrants death in Italy sparks violence...

 

 

 

ECONOMY

Nazif's economic prognosis...


 Ups and downs... Budget talk -- from LA Times, Reuters, and Business Week...

 

Daimler being investigated for Egypt bribes...

 

Stock market rebounds...

 

Sizeable chunk of Telecom Egypt  may go up for sale...

 

Sharm villa for sale in NY Times...


Key issue... An interesting look at the need for a better minimum wage...

 

Gas cylinder shortage...

 

Sawiris might leave Algeria...

 

Earlier: Is a Sawiris interested in buying the Independent newspaper in the UK?

 

4th mobile provider on the way?

 

Mobinil pays for 3G license...

 

Great mine... Starting to export gold...

 

$10 billion in oil investments....

 

New electronic bill payment system being launched...

 

Mobile phone subscribers top 53 million...

 

River ventures... Investing in crop growing in the Nile Basin...

 

Still not ready... Mortgage market still weak...

 

Reuters says cotton industry needs shakeup...

 

Tata Nano here? Will the world's cheapest car be built in Egypt?

 

Meanwhile, plans to establish the biggest car tire factory in the Middle East...

 

 

 

POLITICS

Arabist notices Musawar's Baradie cheap shot...

Much more politics here...

 

 

 

MEDIA
 Rapid change press... "Seismic media evolution..."

 

Multilayered look at the state of the press...

 

Wael Abbas case gets more complicated...

 

Meanwhile, military trial for blogger... More from BBC...

 

Iran TV taken off Nilesat...

 

Newspaper banned after accusing actors of homosexuality...

 

 

 

CRASH WATCH
8 sentenced over train crash...

 

Tough positions... Editorial on trains, ministers and accountability... AFP story lists various errors that led to the train crash, including drugs... Train crash blame begins... Earlier: Train tragedy near Giza...

 

Another serious bus crash...

 

 

 

ARCHAEOLOGY

More underwater antiquity finds...

 

Conference to unite countries who have had artifacts stolen... Reports from BBC, Bloomberg, AP, VOA...

 

Business as usual... More Tut DNA news... DNA to reveal... With more Tut secrets soon to be revealed, AFP takes another look at Zahi Hawass... Tut DNA...

 

Stolen colorful sarcophagus comes back from US...


Ancient doorway to the afterlife discovered...

 

All synagogues to be restored...

 

Under-ground bonanza... New Sakkara discovery... Plus, massive pharaoh head found in Luxor... Meanwhile, UK returns 25,000 ancient artifacts...

 

Historic site... Oldest monastery renovated...

 

Huge open air museum in Luxor...

 

New find... Cat god temple discovered...

Keep digging... New pyramid workers tomb discovery... Latest discovery may prove that slaves did not build pyramids...

No end... Discovering the largest ever Saqqara tomb... Plus: Cleopatra's magic makeup...

 

Remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located...

 

Pressure tactics... Conference to help recover antiquities... Germany says no to Nefertiti return...

 

 

 

SHOWBIZ
 AP does a story about the Beyonce concert controversy...

 

Earlier: Opposite extremes... A Guardian columnist riffs on the upcoming  Beyonce concert...

 

CNN compares Mahmoud Reda to Fred Astaire...

 

Wilad Al Amm will be shown in US theaters...

 

Nubian fury at 'monkey' lyric of pop star Haifa Wehbe

 

 

 

SPORTS

Should be there... Analysis of the 3-1 loss to England from Telegraph, BBC, Guardian...

 

Earlier: Dropping down to 17th in FIFA rankings...

 

More to celebrate... Egyptian national football team makes it to FIFA global top team... BBC reports...

 

Meanwhile, Nigeria interested in coach Shehata...

 

Three in the row...
Perfect African Nations' Cup ends with big final win against Ghana covered by ABC, CNN, Guardian, more...

 

Gedo named the supersub.. Already getting interest from abroad...

 

In the UK -- making squash history...

 

Earlier: More squash greatness... The never-ending story... All Egyptian squash final again...

 

Re-wind... Massive 4-0 defeat of Algeria takes Egyptian national soccer team to African Cup of Nations final...

 

Full coverage from Goal, AFP... Algeria loses the plot... Next up -- Ghana...

 

 

Earlier: Gaza aid convoy finally makes it to Arish... But then clashes with police... Photos...Some Gaza activists allowed through... More demos in Cairo... CS Monitor tries to put the Gaza protest marchers into perspective... Follow the convoy's progress here... Latest on the demos in Cairo here... Earlier: Day by day... Gaza aid convoy can only enter through Arish......

 

Clerics get involved in border wall dispute... Defending the new Gaza Strip barrier... Ministry says it's not a steel wall... Earlier: Gaza barrier under fire... BBC reports on new Gaza border wall... An op-ed piece urges transparency...

 

Doctors sentenced in Saudi get pardon...

 

LA Times speculates about secret messages from Iran....

 

Businessman tries to respond to Obama...

 

Israel's next ambassador to Egypt is named...

 

Five ways to expand China-Egypt ties...

 

Life sentence for German "veil martyr" killer welcomed in Cairo... More detailed reactions from the NY Times... Earlier: Foreign ministry getting involved in German racist murder case... Meanwhile, president of the Lawyers' Syndicate, Hamdi Ahmed Khalifa, left for Germany to join the al-Sherbini family lawyers...

 

Mufti Ali Gomaa condemns the Fort Hood massacre in the Post...

 

Egypt's new ambassador to Baghdad within days...

 

Too early... CNN gauges the reaction from Cairo to Obama's Nobel...

 

 

LA Times says the ferry crash is a mystery...

 

Earlier: No one missing in boat collision

 

Another crash, this time 13 dead...

 

UN rights body approves US-Egypt free speech text...

 

Criticism of Farouk Hosny highlighted by AFP... The aftermath... NY Times sums up the brouhaha surrounding Farouk Hosny's loss... Earlier: Farouk Hosny lays blames for last-minute UNESCO loss...

H1N1

Confusion over schools shutting down because of swine flu...


 112 swine flu deaths...

 

Swine flu death toll at 86... 64 deaths...

 

IRIN goes in depth on swine flu and schools...

 

Earlier: Barely coping? H1N1 -- combining foreign and local vaccines... Smattering of school closings... Schools finally start...

 

AFP interview: "They talk about swine flu ... let them clean the streets..."

 

VOA cats doubt on quarantine procedures..

 

 

 

Too many young people looking to leave...

Reality check... Bibliotheca designer visits 7 years later...

 

Bloomberg to provide funds for road safety...

 

Religious phenomena...
 LA Times asks: Is it the Virgin Mary or just a curious flash of light? Earlier: Virgin Mary appears in Cairo sky... NY Times looks at religious tit for tat...

 

Masry Al Youm enters the polygamy debate from an unexpected angle..

 

CNN looks into the lady guards phenomenon...

Earlier: Taking cues... AFP does the lady bodyguards story...

 

About time... $1 billion plan that will include increasing broadband penetration fourfold...

 

Meanwhile: Digitizing the national archives on the web...

 

Egyptian American amongst mysterious disappearances...


Commemorating 150 years of the Suez Canal...

 

Winning town... LA Times waxes poetic about Damietta's furniture-making prowess...

 

Finally... Major solar power plans in the works...

 

Royal funeral... "Princess Ferial, the daughter of Egypt's last king, was buried in a Cairo mosque on Tuesday after a low-key funeral attended by her relatives..."

 

Celebrating the feast... BBC: Crowded streets, sheep and charity for eid al adha... LA Times asks: Has sexual harassment become part of eid... 

 

Australian paper profiles banned writer...

 

Cairo U study on gas fumes causing aggressive tendencies gets global play...

 

Breastfeeding mother smothers her baby to death on a flight to Egypt...

 

Governing the net...

News from the global internet forum going on in Sharm.... A little controversy... Plus:

.masr domain names available... Earlier: Major internet governance forum taking place in Sharm...

Two Christians have been sentenced to death in Egypt for killing a Muslim man who married one of their relatives...

 

Another sectarian incident...

 

More photos and info on the twins... Earlier: Reunion follow up.. Formerly conjoined twins back in Texas for a check up... helping to launch a new institute...

 

NY Times: why the Darwin conference was held in Alexandria... Delving deeper into the Darwin debates going on at the Bibliotheca event... Earlier: Lots of discussions... Big Darwin conference taking place at the Bibliotheca...

 

Would be hijacker was either drunk or on cocaine...

 

BBC learns more about the niqab ban... LA Times' take... Earlier:

No more niqab in schools...

 

Press Syndicate investigating Hala Mustafa for Israeli ambassador meeting...

BBC tries to find different approaches to the Israeli normalization debate... Earlier:

Some in Ahram upset about Hala Mustafa meeting the Israeli ambassador...

 

Amin Howeidy passes away...

 

Brit tourists not too happy about swine flu quarantines...

 

Cellular rules... The ethics of using a mobile phone...

 

Pyramid backdrop for breast cancer awareness event...

 

Unusual journey... Florida woman brings abandoned Egyptian dogs to US...

 

 

 

 

 

Shift in focus... Details on how the subsidies system is changing...

 

Big year... Plans to attract $110 billion in investments...

 

Pepsi buys Beyti...

 

Agrium back in the news again...

 

Someone else's bad news... In-depth CS Monitor on why the Dubai debt crisis may be good for Egypt...


 Not as bad... Tourism making a comeback?

 

France Telecom can buy Mobinil...

 

Predictions of $10 billion in foreign investment...

 

Post Dubai plummet then rally for bourse...

Earlier: Regional effects... Dubai troubles might push cash towards Cairo...

 

'Made in China' now made in Egypt...

 

LA Times: not enough jobs in fertile Nile delta...

 

Sensing growth, big money investment firm gets into the waste management game...

 

Slashing purchases of costly US wheat...

 

Saudi based dairy wants bigger Egypt share...

 

Arafa garment company to make 12,000 Cerruti suits in 2010...

 

Picking up progress... Best outsourcing city in the Middle East...

 

Green investment giants emerging...

 

New consumers... Nation's biggest mall on the way.

 

Egypt Telecom wants more of Vodafone...

 

Look out for the new wave of wholesale stores...

 

Man gets 7 years for frozen chicken scam...

 

Looking up... $10 billion in foreign investment...

 

Triple play... Major telecom licenses on the way...

 

Budget sky... New no-frills airline on the way...

 

More from the LA Times on the phishing scheme... Earlier: Crime and punishment... 47 Egyptian hackers implicated in an online bank fraud scheme... Reuters says 23 detained...

 

 

Again and again... Top 10 Discoveries of 2009 - World's First Zoo - Hierakonpolis, Egypt

 

Egyptian Museum has received five ancient fresco pieces that France's Louvre Museum returned under the threat of a boycott... Luxor gets some too...

 

Earlier: France to hand back relics during Mubarak visit... More on the Rosetta request... Long shot... Preparing to make a formal request for the Rosetta...

 

X-Rayed Mummies Reveal That Ancient Egyptians Had Heart Disease...


Hawass turns his attention to the Rosetta stone...

 

5 year projects to renovate King Tut's tomb...

 

Early ancestors... Desert near Fayoum yields interesting finds...

 

Hawass getting tougher about the Berlin Nefertiti... Details...

 

Opening the door... Battling for more relics after Louvre success...

 

Meanwhile, a US reversal...

 

Plus: Treasure hunt fatalities

 

 

 

 

Typical confusion at the Cairo Film Festival, and an interesting cinematic find... Earlier: Critical mass... Chaos as yet another round of the Cairo International Film Festival begins..

 

More fests... Egypt cinema moves from Venice to Toronto...

 

Earlier: Golden days... Omar Sharif wows them at the Venice Film Festival... Meanwhile, Youssry Nasrallah's film gets good coverage at Venice...

 

 

On and on... 2-0 win over Benin covered by USA Today and CNN. Next -- Cameroon on Monday... Plus: Ahmed Hassan set to break Hossam Hassan's international matches record...

 

On the way... Big African Cup soccer win over Mozambique covered by Toronto Sun, ESPN, and BBC... Top stars to rest for Benin match... Zidan fined... Celebrating new star Gedo...

 

Big start... 3-1 victory over Nigeria in African Cup opener covered by USA Today and ESPN and AFP... Earlier: Hat trick? Situating the national team at the African Cup of Nations tourney in Angola... More.. Earlier: Abu Trika injury keeps him off African Cup squad...

Meanwhile, another upcoming friendly -- this time with Spain... And: Another UK trial for Amr Zaki...

 

Could be good... Soccer friendly with England in March? Nice try... Egypt England friendly match confirmed for Wembley stadium in March...

 

No returning of ambassador to Algeria until apology and compensation... CNN tries to summarize the whole soccer war timeline...  CS Monitor suggests government manipulation... Alaa Mubarak has benefited... Meanwhile, opting out of hosting handball tourney because Algeria will play...

 

Montage of post-match scenes of commentators making comments about Algeria... "A national catharsis over soccer violence" Reports on the ramifications of the Egypt-Algeria showdown with suggestions of  political links from LA Times, Time, Reuters, and BBC... Interesting comments on this NY Times blog... A first hand account...  Photos... FIFA investigating bus attack... Recalling ambassadors... BBC tries to summarize the violence on all sides... The Mubaraks step into the fray...

 

Another disappointment... Close match ends with Algeria, not Egypt, heading to World Cup...

 

Interesting pre match perspectives from CS Monitor... Trouble before and after the match... Meanwhile, some post match violence in France... Back on attack... 2-0 win over Algeria puts national team in good standing for World Cup qualifiers' final match on Wednesday in Sudan -- against Algeria again...  Team named for Algeria matchup... Two goals... Lead up to the big World Cup qualifier against Algeria... More...

 

Back again... Another coaching shift at Zamalek...

 

Positive reactions to the hosting of the FIFA World Cup U-20 tourney...

 

 

 

 

 

 

FOREIGN
 

 Commentators see a bitter conspiracy.... Blogosphere reacts a bit differently... Last second UNESCO loss for Farouk Hosny... Hosny in the lead after first round of UNESCO voting... Earlier: Who's choice? As UNESCO nears its vote, BBC and Washington Post weigh in on Farouk Hosny's chances at getting the top post...  Meanwhile, NY Times links it to the restoration of synagogues...  As UNESCO election nears, Farouk Hosny is interviewed by AFP... Earlier: Synagogue restoration linked to Farouk Hosny's UNESCO bid... Denials abound...

 

End of an era... Baradei on his way out as international atomic energy chief...

 

Falsely accused post 911, Egyptian gets $250,000 compensation from FBI...

 

Opening the Gaza crossing for a few days... Destroying tunnels... Defending shooting of migrants... Netanyahu on his way to town.. CS Monitor reexamines Egypt's peacemaking role again...

 

Why wasn't Travis Randall allowed to come back to Cairo?

 

Assessing the Obama speech more than a month later...

 

Nile Basin meeting taking place in Alexandria...

 

26 Hezbolla suspects headed for trail...

 

With NAM, some wonder, what's the point? Earlier: AP covers the NAM summit...

 

Darfur talks held in Egypt...

 

25 militants suspected of having al-Qaeda links have been arrested for plotting attacks on ships in the Suez Canal...

 

No chance for Iran demo... Iran solidarity march not permitted... Exploring Egypt-Iran tension... Calling for international action against Iran... Earlier: Silence and jealousy about Iranian protest...

 

 

New ambassador to Iraq after 4 year gap...

 

Medvedev in town... Talking about nuclear power...

 

Hillary meets Abul Gheit, rights activists...

 

Hillary wants more respect for rights...

 

Preparations... Abul-Gheit and Sulieman to go to DC instead of Mubarak... Earlier: Mubarak postpones visit to the US...

 

Meanwhile, Abdel-Moniem Said rightly argues in Ahram Weekly that "greater efforts must be made to promote transparency in -- and enhance public awareness of -- what is actually taking place in our bilateral relations with the US. This should be combined with efforts to put these relations in a realistic perspective in terms of their relative value to both sides..."

 

Real roles... CBS news makes clear why Egypt fits into the big Middle East picture...

Different terms... Interesting comments from Mubarak on Israel, Bush, Obama...

Egypt has informed Fatah and Hamas leaders in Cairo that whether they accept it or not, the Palestinian reconciliation deal will be signed in July.

 

News from the Mubarak Netanyahu meeting... Netanyahu in town... Chinese media doesn't expect much...

Earlier: Only PM Netanyahu -- not FM Lieberman -- has been invited to visit... Earlier: Not optimistic about the Netanyahu government... Netanyahu scrambles to mend ties... More...

 

US defense secretary eyes further security cooperation...

 

No more Gaza smuggling?

 

NPR explores the current wave of anti-Hizbollah sentiment...  Hizbollah cells in Sinai?

 

Did Egypt know about the Sudan convoy strike at the time?

 

Mubarak stays away from Arab summit...

 

Bashir in town, not worried about warrant...

Already feeling it... San Fran based diplomat says Obama has made a difference...

 

British terror suspect sent to Egypt for questioning, more...

 

Intelligence chief Omar Suleiman held talks with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Washington... BBC says Suleiman seeking softer US Hamas line

Canada not happy about Egypt free speech moves at UN..

Nation to nation... Asking Iraq to repay its debt...

Galloway's convoy to Gaza crosses Rafah border... But not without some trouble...

IOL talks to Sudanese refugees in Egypt who are happy about the arrest warrant for Bashir...

US military troops will receive playing cards telling them to be respectful of cultural and archaeological sites when they go to Egypt this fall for the Bright Star desert-warfare exercise.

Release... Somali pirates finally free the Blue Star...

Expanding networks... More military ties with China...

Continental commitment... Sending more than 1,325 peacekeepers to Congo...

Billions and borders... LA Times reports from the Sharm El-Sheikh Gaza donor's conference... AP's take... Early info... Hillary will announce "substantial" pledge at Egypt Gaza meeting... Earlier: Gaza conference news... Hillary will attend... encouraged by Obama administration...

Reconciliation talks between Hamas and Fatah begin in Cairo...

Not happy about Netanyahu...

Smugglers trying to take drugs across the border into Israel shot and wounded an Egyptian police officer... Earlier: Smugglers noticing stricter enforcement at Gaza border...

Police seized 2,200 tons of food and medical aid destined for the Gaza...

Gaza protest politician sentenced to 2 years... Earlier: Opposition politician to be tried by a military court on charges of illegally crossing into Gaza through a smuggling tunnel... Earlier: Arresting a politician for crossing into Gaza...

Mubarak is in France for preparations for an aid conference for Gaza

Student blogger detained for pro-Gaza protest... More...

Hamas leader not allowed to bring $11 million through Rafah...

Back to Gaza... Installing tunnel detection equipment at the border...

Looking for a permanent truce... Hosting an  international conference in March on the reconstruction of Gaza, estimated at $2 billion....

Foreign Minister's harsh words on Iran, Hizbollah, Hamas and Qatar...

Obama envoy Mitchell meets Mubarak... Earlier: On the way... Obama peace envoy coming to Cairo...

Priorities... On his first day in office, Obama phoned Mubarak... More details...

Gaza wrap-up... Confusion at the Rafah border... reports from AP, IRIN, and AFP... Bloomberg says border tunnels are back to business...

CS Monitor's first hand accounts from the Palestinian wounded taken to Egypt.

NY Times analyzes Egypt's Gaza quandary...

Tension at a Gaza support demo... Police used batons to beat protesters...

Sharm Gaza conference provides opportunity for world leaders to care...

The shoes come off during a parliamentary clash over Gaza...

Police detained 18 Muslim Brotherhood members after rallies protesting Israel's offensive in Gaza...

A spray paint protest in Arish...

UN chief in town...

Earlier: Tough situation... More talks with Hamas... Might reject plan...

Reuters on the Israeli missile that landed in Egypt... Telegraph says Egypt key to Gaza breakthrough...

The tension in Al Arish’s main square was palpable... Police detain 64 in Delta protest for Gaza...

Reuters analyzes Mubarak's position... Gulf News looks at Abul Gheit... Iran wants a clarification... NY Times attends Friday prayers...

Latest Gaza links... No foreign force on Gaza border... Germany offers training...

Meanwhile, 9 MEPs from across the European Union being given support to travel to the Rafah border crossing...

Earlier: Movement... Brokering yet another truce... Ceasefire talks begin in Cairo... US supports... Meanwhile, multiple summoning of the Israeli ambassador...

Fraying threads... Stepping up pressure on the Syria-based Hamas leadership... Meanwhile, Iranian students threaten Egypt diplomat... And in Rafah: "many local and foreign doctors have been waiting for days for Egyptian permission to enter Gaza... Plus, Qaddafi's son not allowed through.

Gaza border-lines... Wondering how to continue playing a mediating role in Palestinian affairs... More from NPR on the Gaza predicament Cairo is in... AP looks at how Arab outrage over Gaza carnage targets Egypt... Meanwhile, canceling celebrations and channel launches in solidarity with Gaza...

Between a rock... Reuters looks at what a tight spot enforcing the blockade of Gaza really is...  Cairo and Assuit Gaza protests make international news -- AP, AFP... Photos from a press syndicate demo in support of Gaza... Meanwhile, Palestinians arrive for medical treatment... Really worried about Gaza now... Earlier: Humanitarian convoy to be allowed in to Gaza after intensive negotiations... Too close? Parliament calls for establishing relief mechanism for Gaza... Meanwhile, police detains brotherhood leader active in supporting Gaza... More... More brotherhood members arrested for Gaza support... Preventing livestock from crossing Gaza border... Azhar sheikh condemns blocking of Muslim pilgrims as an "abominable crime" after Hamas prevented the faithful leaving the Gaza Strip over the past four days.... Meanwhile, 60 arrested over Gaza protests... Extra police sent in to bolster Gaza border... Global rights group urges end to migrant border shootings...

Somali pirates have seized an Egyptian cargo ship with 28 crew members on board...

Foreign ministry denied claims by a human rights group that an Egyptian man was being detained in Saudi Arabia on suspicion of spying...

Diplomats owe lots of parking ticket fees in London...

114 sub-Saharan African migrants were found packed into a single truck in the Sinai peninsula...

Summoning the Iranian envoy...

Saudi Arabia donates two Red Sea ferries...

Ban against doctors going to Saudi Arabia is lifted... Foreign ministry says it favors quiet diplomacy with Saudis... Earlier: Seeking clarity... Saudi Arabia says jailed doctor was dealing drugs.... Full circle... Government ban on doctors going to work in Saudi Arabia "in the wake of two medics being sentenced to jail..." Earlier: "Demonstrators in Cairo demanded that Saudi Arabia release an Egyptian doctor sentenced to 15 years in prison and 1,500 lashes after he was convicted of malpractice..." ... Egyptian expat docs in Saudi Arabia in trouble...

Willing to join international force to fight piracy...  Willing to intervene militarily against piracy... Earlier: Damage challenge... AP says the Suez Canal is facing an enormous challenge from piracy... Reuters wonders why...

Somali piracy is threatening Suez Canal revenue...

Surprise? A court has ordered the government "to suspend gas exports to Israel, although it is not clear whether the ruling will be heeded..."

Mubarak makes rare Sudan visit...

Obama sends advisor to Egypt? First reactions... Egypt elated, says VOA... DPA sounds out expats and others in Cairo... Mubarak hopes Obama will work towards peace... Earlier: Here too... Obama more popular than McCain in Cairo...

Peace move... Retired Egyptian diplomat named as Arab League envoy to Iraq...

Condi in Egypt for Quartet meeting..

Israel's president and prime minister called Mubarak to apologize for inflammatory comments made against him by an extreme right-wing Israeli lawmaker.

More time needed before embassy opens in Baghdad... Earlier: Progress at last... Foreign minister in Iraq for the first time in a long time...

Big boys club? Invitation to join the countries that would comprise the G14, a proposed extension of the G8...

Somali pirates have released an Egyptian ship with 25 crew on board which was hijacked earlier this month... Earlier: Somali pirates want 'ransom' for Egypt boat and 25 crew...

Notable date... 30 years after Camp David...

A court is reviewing a demand to halt natural gas exports to Israel.

The National talks to Iraqis in Cairo...

"U.S. Embassy in Egypt has offered monetary compensation to the family of a man shot dead by American naval personnel in the Suez Canal..."

Border closed... Earlier: Reopening the Gaza border... Hinting at an Arab force...

Ambassadors from EU countries summoned to demand better treatment of Egyptians at their embassies in Cairo... Formal complaint... Foreign Ministry says European embassies in Cairo not treating Egyptians with respect and dignity...

New southern ties... Building relations with South Africa... Plan includes providing South Africa "with highly skilled professionals, such as doctors and engineers..."

Egypt-Iran-Sadat-Khomeini cinematic tit for tat... Police raid Cairo office of Iranian TV network... Canceling a friendly match with Iran... Earlier: Summoning Iranian diplomat over film... Sour ties again... Anger over new anti-Sadat Iranian film..

Working together? Mubarak co-presides over historic Mediterranean union meeting with Sarkozy...

Truce talks... Border guard killed... Forces fired water cannons at crowds of stone-throwing Palestinians who were trying to cross into Egypt from southern Gaza.. Earlier: U.S. Department of Defense personnel are helping Egyptian security forces look for tunnels dug by smugglers under the border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip... Now working for release of Israeli soldier... Back in diplomatic saddle...

 

MISC
 

 

Google on-demand book printing to be available in Egypt...

 

Illegal adoption couples convicted...

 

AP reporter's Mogamma adventure...

 

NY Times: With garbage piling up on the streets the pig cull decision looks even lamer... Earlier: Speaking out... Seething editorial on the garbage crisis...

 

Schools delayed again in fear of flu... AUC affected as well... Not everyone agrees...

 

Misdiagnosing the flu?

 

Iron Lady embezzler captured after 22 years on the run...

 

Big compensation for Brit who ate a bad burger...

 

Did boat owner take too much credit for pirate escape? Earlier: Freed fishermen return to cheers... LA Times looks at the man who beat the pirates... Hero's welcome... Earlier: Who did it? Hijacked fishermen freed..

 

Bye bye Delta? The Guardian has some dire predictions: "A 1m rise in the sea level, which many experts think likely within the next 100 years, will cause 20% of the Delta to go underwater." And an accompanying gallery...

 

Obama dates start at LE25, go down to LE15..

 

Youssef Megahed released... Earlier: The headline says it all: "Fla. student held as family takes citizenship oath"...

 

Mixed interests...
Fascinating Business Monthly article about big plans for downtown restoration...

 

Crazy coincidence... Pharaonic statue in Chicago looks like Michael Jackson... Bigger photo here...

 

Different kind of croc... Tiny crocodile loose on an Egypair flight...

 

"It's a step..." Time takes a look at government efforts to stop harassment...  Earlier: An attempt... "Ministry of Endowments has published a book on sexual harassment that is to be circulated at local mosques around the country in an attempt to raise awareness about Egypt’s social problems among Imams."

 

Sexual harasser sentenced to 45 years...

 

More land for wind farms...

 

Why? Even though "Egypt receives some of the highest annual solar radiation in the world, [it] remains heavily dependent on fossil fuels."

 

Egyptian call centers play bit part in new British phone message service controversy. More...

 

Gulf News reports on the controversial mulid ban...

 

1st swine flu death... 5 Brits in quarantine...

 

Secular author Sayed Qemni mired in controversy again...

 

"The correct and humane response to the tragic murder of Marwa El-Sherbini is not falling into the same morass of bigotry and hatred that killed her," writes Abdel-Moneim Said...  Will German city name a street after Marwa?  German city honors Egyptian woman slain in court... Cairo will send a state prosecutor to Germany to help with investigations... Earlier: Hate squared... Mourning in Cairo and calling for punishment... after veiled Egyptian woman stabbed in Germany prejudice trial...

 

High-tech event... Global Microsoft Imagine Cup takes place in Egypt... May find the next Bill Gates there...

 

More Muslim-Christian violence...

 

Crazy about cellular... 45 million mobile subscribers...

 

Meanwhile, IT minister's US tour gets good DC press...

 

Death sentence in Hisham Talaat Mustafa murder case... Reactions from Xinhua, AP, and Time...

 

Ali Baba... Egyptian falafel stand in DC gets good coverage in the Post...

 

Raw deal... US man tried to sell Egypt $7 million in fake frozen chicken...

 

Transformations? New endowment at MIT...

 

Running scared... Interesting Guardian commentary on crime... Plus, something from the National...

 

Another bird flu death... Earlier: NYT looks at the bird flu virus transformation... New kind of bird flu?

 

 

 

NY Times hangs out with the masses on the bridge...

 

Philly murder suspect arrested in Cairo...

 

New trend... MGM Grand New Giza: big Vegas hotel coming to town...

Does Faoruk Hosni now want to publish Hebrew books in Arabic?

 

Pledging help for the Nubians...

 

Mom reunited, briefly, with daughter after 12 years

 

A Little Italy near Fayoum?

 

27th bird flu death...

69th bird flu case...

 

No intention of stalling the Hajj and Umrah pilgrimage this year due to the swine flu...  Swine flu count reaches 55...

 

Earlier: 5 more swine flu cases brings total to 39... Three more swine flu cases... More...  More cases... 5 more AUC Zamalek dorm swine flu cases... Quarantine extended... One case in Alexandria... Earlier: AUC dorm quarantined for swine flu...

PETA calls pig cull inhumane... YouTube pig cull clip sparks outrage... Reuters says pig cull fans sectarian tension... UK family not happy about flu precautions in Sharm El-Sheikh... Earlier: Economist critical of pig cull... FP analysis... WHO disagrees with the pig cull... Violent clashes with police over culling pigs....  Now government says its part of a larger health plan... Over 300,000 pigs to be slaughtered as swine flu precaution... Scientific American says it won't help... AP is highly critical... So is Brigitte Bardot...  Checking every passenger coming from Mexico...

 

Blast hits Egypt military depot, casualties unclear

 

Stabbing of NDP official not political? killed by his assistant

 

Tough to enforce... Court 'bans porn sites'...

 

Super-spy... 60 Minutes delves into the strange case of Ashraf Marwan...

 

Bomb goes off near church...

 

Not allowed to fail... Grading issues at Helwan university...

 

Taking care... Philippines will establish a centre in Cairo to look after the welfare of Filipina maids... More...

 

Is it working? Florida writer interested in warning labels on cigarette packs...

 

Even more famous...
Zeweil named to Obama's science council...

 

Meanwhile, LA Times obituary of prominent Egyptian American interfaith builder...

 

NPR correspondent still amazed at Egyptian reactions to Obama...

 

And, in the Wall Street Journal, Egyptian op-ed argues that where Obama decides to make his speech will make a big difference...

 

The National attends the mulid of Al Hussein...

 

More sectarian violence in the south...

Circus workers on strike, don't want privatization...

 

Comic culture... National looks at the Metro comic book controversy...

 

Maps soon? Finally allowing GPS...

 

Art heist... 9 paintings of Mohamed Ali stolen from his Shubra palace...

 

Good price for you... Haggling over the price of a cotton shirt...

 

Out of the frying pan... More details on the Youssef Megahed case...Acquitted student arrested by immigration officials... Earlier: College student cleared -- Florida paper has the details... Earlier: Florida student terror case goes to jury...

 

Line of duty... Mother flies from Egypt to wounded officer's Florida bedside...

Ten for the road... Tourist drinks too much on his way out of Sinai...

An hour in Giza... Pyramids amongst global landmarks to shut lights for Earth Day...

Helping out... US students create handmade animals to support curriculum for blind students in Mansoura...

Another round... Rumors claim "a SMS containing a special combination of numbers killed a man..."

How Egyptian art fascinated a famous European sculptor...

Details, details... A journey deep into the Mena House golf course...

Learning Arabic... "Do you even speak Arabic?"

Scary choices... AP gets the figures on desperation and the illegal organ trade...

Literary muscle... LA Times delves into an author and his controversial book... Update: Zeidan wins the Arabic Booker prize...

Journey for a test... Egyptian high school students take SAT exams in the US...

Candor and hope... Quick NY Times interview with Jehan Sadat...

How many?  Guardian says Egypt  has 900,000 Facebook users... UPDATE -- About's article says 365,000 members in Egypt..

One more human bird flu case... Timely discovery... New vaccine developed by the National Research Center was confirmed effective against the H5N1 bird flu... Earlier: 2nd bird flu case in four days...

The unfortunates... No pay raise for researchers?

Meanwhile, Reuters reports on foreign exchange students not being happy with AUC's move...

Fun... Artist Mohamed Abla opens Arab world's first caricature museum in Fayoum...

Full speed ahead... Tourism report has fun with Obama and dollar bills...

Too old for show... Russia wants its show dolphins back...

More than a good time... Egypt trip part of Chinese corruption inquiry...

Rich history... Mohamed Ali family jewels to soon go on display...

Meanwhile, fake Coptic art show begins in the US...

Reuters paints a sympathetic portrait of the couple accused of trying to buy a baby...

Interesting ecology... NY Times discovers that runoff from farms and sewage helps fish in Egypt...

Still got it... Classic cars race through the desert...

Pros and cons... Author Alaa Al-Aswany's interesting NY Times op-ed on Obama...

New Cairo story... AUC's new campus officially inaugurated...

Germany trying to dig deeper into Nazi who lived in Cairo... AP digs into a Nazi who hid..

A different city? AP laments the demise of downtown's bars...

Swiss confection... Groppi's antiquities collection goes on display in Switzerland...

Generation next... Finding ways to be devout in a modern world: LA Times profiles the next Amr Khaled...

Too early to tell... Not looking to host 2022 World Cup...

Bird flu death...

South African charity worker has been released...

Looking for alternatives...
Raising money for more gold exploration

Government claims the nation is on track to being a regional leader in renewable energy initiatives.

Now this... "Authorities have charged 11 people including two U.S. citizens of involvement in a scheme to buy four newborn Egyptian infants for illegal adoption..."

Meandering road... A farm in Girgha gets major coverage in the NY Times...

Take us back... Nubians push for a return to their drowned homeland...

Worth a try... Seattle Times finds out how to be a cultural ambassador and a tourist at the same time

Recounting the story of the California couple in trouble for having a 10-year-old maid...

"Donkeys have been banned from walking around in the streets of Egypt's southwestern al-Wadi al-Gadeed governorates without wearing diapers..."

Someone else listening? Phone and internet confessions banned by Coptic Pope...

One of the Egyptian students in US terror case gets 15 years jail time...

Internet service still spotty... Earlier: Not again... Another cable cut disrupts internet...

All the details... Apple has removed its prized GPS satellite navigation feature from the best-selling iPhone to comply with strict laws in Egypt.... More from Guardian and NY Times...

Time keeps on... NY Times does a thoughtful piece about how Egypt's long history affects its view of the present...

End of an era? Celebrated publisher and bookseller Madbouli dies...

Just in time... The Giza zoo is getting back on track...

Meanwhile, a local vulture joins the endangered species list...

Columnist tries to analyze a recent murder case...

Tolerated art... LA Times profiles an interesting poet...

Nile Hilton to become Ritz Carlton...

Daily struggle... Metro does not provide any relief from crowded streets....

Part of the neighborhood... An intimate portrait of a muezzin...

Egyptian American scientist loses security clearance lawsuit...

Flirting too far... Police rounded up hundreds of teenage boys in Cairo in a day-long crackdown on harassment...

Just a few? AFP: First lady plays down harassment against women in the streets...

Who is it? More details on the famous sick man pictured on cigarette packs...

Egyptian informant in strange murder conspiracy case in the States...

Bin Laden's son not allowed back in... Earlier: Osama bin Laden's son to be deported to Egypt..

7-year-old arrested for dealing drugs...

TV ad pulled for misuse of patriotic song...

Horrid beating by teacher kills schoolboy...

New chapter... First-ever female marriage registrar starts work...

NYT does a Toshka slide show...

In it to win it... International bird flu conference begins with big US pledges...Earlier: Hosting a huge bird flu conference...

Harrod's boss Al-Fayed accused of sexual assault...

Confusion over what really happened with the kidnapping... Just in time.. Released hostages tell their story.. Kidnapped drivers come home... Commando raid frees tour group... Group was freed Monday and the 11 tourists and eight Egyptian guides and drivers are in good health and on their way to Cairo... No ransom paid? Kidnap rescue efforts get complicated...

Another tourist has a pretty bad experience with harassment...

First hand tourist's account of sexual harassment...

London digs deeper... New investigation into Ashraf Marwan's mysterious fall...

Alexandria tragedy... Twelve dead in building collapse... Owner arrested...

Coptic Christian killed by stray bullet during gunfight...

Still not resolved... Bloomberg delves deep into the potable water problem...

Happy eid... With the holy month ending, BBC recaps Ramadan food finances, and Gulf News looks at people who have been avoiding charity tables set up by belly dancers...

Fire has destroyed the main hall of the National Theatre...

$4 million Chinese school opens in 6 October...

Teachers don't want to be tested...

Thanawiya verdict... Fourteen officials and parents were jailed for up to 15 years for involvement in leaking secondary school exams... Old hand... Iron Maiden lead singer flies a big plane back from Sharm El-Sheikh... Time for a change... AFP takes on the new traffic law... Reuters: "Hundreds of Bedouin in the Sinai peninsula burned tires and blocked roads, demanding police release tribesmen they said were arrested without charge..."

Interesting new acquisition for the bibliotheca...

Sane voice... Critical of the Saudi anti-mouse fatwa..

New angle... NY Times talks to young Egyptians living and working in Dubai...

LA Times continues to highlight interesting documentaries...

Kidnapped tourists moved to Libya. Tripoli denies... Latest updates... Asking Germany to pay 6 million euros... Kidnapping followed increased banditry in desert areas... Kidnapped tourists located 'in good health' ... Intelligence team goes to Sudan... Sudan troops surround kidnappers' desert hideout... Avoiding a showdown... The kidnappers demanded $8.8 million. Reuters says kidnappers exploited security weak spot...  Conflicting reports... Earlier: Held hostage... Tourists on safari kidnapped... Ransom demands... BBC calls it a big blow... Army scours desert...

Authorities blocked an opposition convoy headed for the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip to protest the territory's punishing blockade...

LA Times notices the new Chinese school (check out the comment as well)

Public court... Hisham Talaat Mustafa writes a letter to a newspaper claiming he's innocent... More... A boat carrying 83 Egyptian illegal migrants headed for Europe has gone missing off the coast of Greece

A step... Getting close to nano-scale research...

One of those... A donkey goes to jail...

The Gap is coming to town...

Original fun... Very nice LA Times feature on kite flying in the city's poorer neighborhoods... with photos...

Southern prison shaken by riot...

Another gallery... UNESCO backs plan to build underwater museum in Alexandria... Global reach... Armani designs villas at new Sidi Abdel Rahman resort... Going somewhere? What's happening to downtown Cairo, asks Bloomberg...

Holy month... Ramadan begins... Earlier: A date with sunset... Early end to daylight savings as Ramadan nears...

Another increase... Prices for Cleopatra and other local cigarettes are going up...

What a comparison Kate Moss statue 'largest since ancient Egypt'...

Rich reversal.. Grand Hyatt's booze ban partially lifted...

Ancient flowers... Geologist gardener finds inspiration in Pharaonic lilies... Interesting figures.. LA Times compares: "in the squatter neighborhoods of Giza, 23,000 babies are born each year" ... while "[the] upscale neighborhood of Zamalek records a mere 235 births each year."

Meanwhile, woman gives birth to septuplets..

Starting over... Reuters: "Air-conditioning for bears is part of efforts to revitalize the historical Giza Zoo and help it rejoin a world zoo association after its exclusion in 2004..."

A modest proposal... AFP: Veil shed for bikini on Egypt's women-only beaches...

Cyber cafés gather personal information on Internet users? AP: "Egypt has banned news coverage of the brutal slaying of a Lebanese pop star following media reports in other regional papers that say a wealthy businessman ordered three men to carry out the killing." Meanwhile, Destour daily accused of violating the ban... Missing link? UAE paper has details on the Suzan Tamim murder investigation which culminated with the arrest of a suspect at a Cairo hotel pool... Destour faces trouble for suggesting businessman's involvement...

Still in the headlines... Houston paper looks deeper into a Farouk Hosny art show...

LA Times spends some time with a fisherman on the Nile...

AUC leaving downtown...

It all started here, part infinity... Scotsman says "the second oldest joke hails from Egypt... around 1600BC..."

Seeking harmony... Big global youth forum taking place...

Between a rock and... Hyatt alcohol ban examined further by the Washington Post... Meanwhile, Guardian also chimes in on the Hyatt case: "Duke's has been dry since May"...

Points of view... The National spends some time with Alaa Al-Aswany...

LA Times meets a rising feminist author... and reports on a former cop who wrote a book on how to survive police abuse

Copts beginning to isolate themselves...

Bloomberg and AFP look at the new Omar Sharif Adel Imam Coptic Muslim flick...

CS Monitor and yet another Facebook story.....

Who's living where? NYT columnist Thomas Friedman puts across many a thought in a recent "Letter from Cairo"...

A rising tide... "Dozens of writers condemned Culture Minister Faruq Hosni, a candidate to head UNESCO, for saying in an Israeli newspaper interview that he was prepared to visit the Jewish state..." Earlier: Cautious lobbying... Farouk Hosni says he is willing to visit Israel...

More from the debates spurred by wikimania... Longer version with pics... Coastal knowledge fest... More than 600 Wikipedia contributors, administrators and fans from 47 countries gathered in Alexandria for wikimania!

July 23 surprise... Egypt in 8th place in new Pew list of the top-10 most optimistic countries...

Odd route... Fake Viagra from Egypt makes its way to Baltimore...

Head of Kefaya movement Abdel Wahab al-Messiri passes away...

Waking up to reality... AFP's Thanwiyya Amma wrap-up... More on the Thanawiyya Amma fiasco from the Gulf News... Earlier: Thanaweya amma shakedown... Launching an investigation into how secondary school final exam papers were leaked to students... Earlier: Testing a jam... AFP: "Mubarak ordered an extension to exam time at a school south of Cairo after his convoy brought traffic to a standstill causing students to show up late..."

Another Youtube mess... Babies' deaths cast shadow on health care...

Tough sell... Reuters takes on the "Before you add another baby, make sure his needs are secured"  campaign...

Deadly clash between two families in an Egyptian Delta governorate over land disputes killed at least nine...

20 arrested after Fayoum sectarian problem...

Rough end for prison hunger strike...

 

ECONOMY
 

 

Meanwhile: Different tariffs soon for land-mobile calls...

 

Forbes looks at the ups and downs of the telecom business...

 

RAMU owners buy posh London hotel...

 

Suez Canal revenues down...

 

Better than expected
Bloomberg: Economy to expand up to 5.5%...

 

Fighting for wages... Time looks at simultaneous labor strikes... Meanwhile, a public transport strike... And an in-depth look at the property tax collectors union...

 

Attaba markets surviving troubled times...

 

Economy grows 4.7% in year, beating forecasts...

 

New $2.3 billion oil, gas agreements...

 

Oxford outlines some progress in transport infrastructure, but makes clear that much more is needed...

 

Forced slow-down... At least 75,000 Egyptian expatriates have reportedly had to return from the Gulf...

 

Bloomberg: inflation rate unexpectedly steady...

 

Plans to expand the cultivation of the jatropha plant to produce biofuels...

 

On the way? High-speed railway line between Cairo and Alexandria...
 

Inflation rate fell to an 18 month low in June...

 

Economic indicators... 5 per cent growth predictions ...

 

Funding the budget deficit by issuing domestic treasury notes and bonds...

 

First insurance IPO on the way...

 

Controversy over Russian wheat...

 

National Bank of Egypt to collect taxes electronically...

 

No more boom... Foreign reserves fell 8.5%...

 

Worleyparsons signs $160 million Egypt nuclear deal

 

World's largest wheat importer...

 

Six months reserve...

More trade with the US...

 

Misunderstanding over Russian wheat? Guardian provides a timeline...

Trying to inspire... Another interest rate cut... Inflation going down to 14 percent?

 

Foreign reserves dip more than 7 percent...

 

Unemployment rises to 9.4 percent...

Talks with Bechtel on nuclear power plants stall...

 

Oxford says banks are in good shape...

 

AlMasria would be Egypt's first scheduled private carrier, joining state-owned Egypt Air and charter companies.

 

Soon -- gold... Higher reserve estimate...

 

Gamal Mubarak talks economy to the Wall Street Journal...

 

Finance Minister talks poverty reduction at Chatham House.

 

Hard working town... BBC is proud of Damietta's "zero" unemployment figure...

 

France Telecom's Mobinil offer rejected.

 

Stock safe... Lots of wheat in storage, set to buy more locally-grown grain...

 

 

Structured stimulus... Highways, ports and housing: Oxford looks at the government stepping up its public spending efforts...

Meanwhile, Chinese media explores the effects of the  economic slowdown...

Inflation down again...

That's global... Reversal of fortunes for Oriental Weavers?

International Finance Corporation (IFC) buys a 9.75 percent stake in Bank of Alexandria...

Hope... Wall Street Journal highlights outsourcing push...

Way forward... Finance minister says economic growth could rebound to between 7 and 9 percent after the global economic crisis.

Not a good sign... Suez Canal traffic at five-year low...

Fail-safe plans? The Prime Minister is committed to pushing ahead with an ambitious economic reform program...

Pharmacists halt strike while negotiations continue... Earlier: Pharmacists striking against new tax law... Meanwhile, trucker's strike also ends... Earlier: police arrested 25 truckers as a strike by truck owners entered its third day...

Steel sector not corrupt, watchdog says...

Shopping around... Telecom Egypt says it's still eyeing a regional deal...

Open questions... Will the Housing and Development bank buy a stake in Damac? Damac denies..

World Bank to lend $600 million to build power station...

Need for speed... Can the tourism sector turn green?

Lower prices on export carpets...

Government plans tax, tariff cuts to stimulate economy...

Balancing act... Oxford looks back and forward at the economy...

Pinch time... Country could lose between $5 billion and $6 billion in foreign revenue in fiscal 2009 ...

Meanwhile, the tourism industry has started to "feel the pinch of the global financial crisis..."

Update: Renegotiating nuclear deal price with Bechtel... Earlier: Bechtel to be consultant on nuclear power project... More...

Trying to rally... France gives 100-150 million euros for development...

Kharafi pledges $3 billion investment...

Orascom Telecom opens bank in North Korea

Struggling to make ends meet over the eid...

More oil found in Western Desert...

Big deal... First factory to produce motherboards in Africa...

Reuters analysis predicts unrest if poor not protected in slowdown...

Local coca war... Schweppes suing Coca Cola...

Exports set to slow...

Tall claims on the economy only lower confidence, IPS says... Money matters... Big economy conference discussing a drop in inflation, major investments in transportation, tripling of mortgage finance, and slightly less growth...

Sober takes... Columnist: "Hope for the future improves the image of any country regardless of the gravity of its problems."

Big Dubai company buys stake in CIB...

Safe to say... Oxford analyzes the global economic crisis's potential effects on the local economy...

Aiming to produce 8 tons of gold in '09...

Cancelling tax on exports of cement and iron and steel products...

Earlier: "the government may temporarily freeze prices some industries pay for energy to help [the] economy withstand [the] global financial crisis..."

Still optimistic... Aiming for 6-7 per cent economic  growth this year...

Deals and detours... Glaxo buys Bristol Myers' Egypt operations for $210 million...

Big wheat purchase from Russia...

Boom loom... New oil find...

Signs and signals... Daily oil output reaches 700,000 barrels... Meanwhile, Iraq calls for help in rebuilding the country’s oil industry...

Reformist on board... Finance Minister Youssef Boutros-Ghali elected to chair IMF policy-setting committee...

Stock market still going down... Earlier: biggest two-day slump for the bourse...

2 companies checked for manipulating shares on the bourse...

Interest rate goes up on inflation fears...

IMF urges more subsidy cuts...

Mixed bag... Reuters: "Egypt was the world's top reformer of business regulations last year and was again one of the world's top 10 reformers this year, the International Finance Corporation said... But it ranked 114th globally in terms of ease of doing business..."

Going regional... Major foreign investment to take Mo'men restaurants to a new level...

Unemployment has fallen to 8.4 percent.

Downgrade... Long-term foreign-currency rating was lowered to "stable'' from "positive'' by Fitch...

Option out... Sawiris giving up Mobinil chairmanship.

No new contracts to export natural gas until end of 2010...

Oxford has very high hopes for the mortgage industry...

UPDATE: Fox has details on how the Agrium deal was resolved.... Earlier: No Agrium... The government has canceled an unpopular $1.4 billion nitrogen fertilizer project... and is close to a deal with the Canadian giant...

Change of course... Big rice export plans...

Opening of H&M signifies changing retail landscape...

Inflation rate rises to 20.2%...

Welcome to the sky...
The Age covers a ceremony welcoming Egypt Air into the Star Alliance of airlines...

Complex plan... Agrium might have to write off its $280 million investment... Earlier: Mixed move... Damietta fertilizer factory provides lessons on how not to globalize... problems in Damietta affect firm's bottom line...

Detailed bill... Interesting new changes in landline phone prices...

Big public sector bank sale postponed because price is not right...

Ups and downs... USA Today goes in-depth: Egypt's economy soars; so does misery... Guardian: "economy is growing quickly, foreign direct investment is at record levels, and the country even got high marks from the World Bank for business reforms this year, but high inflation and high poverty levels are still a problem."

 

MEDIA
 

 

Are Egyptian bloggers journalists?

 

Another foreign activist blogger prevented from entering the country...

 

New beginning? Ahram's new chairman sets out his goals...

 

Charges dropped against satellite broadcaster...

 

Press update... Ahram in crisis

Earlier: Let the games begin... Masry Al Youm upgrading its printing process.

 

Jail terms cancelled for four editors.... but fines still stand.. 5 fined for breaking Tamim murder trial press ban...

Big year... Destour editor wins regional press freedom award..

Straight-forward news... Coverage of Beirut conference where Destour editor gets major press freedom award...

Not amused... Another ruling against another editor in chief...

Heat on the press... Editors of Masry Al-Youm and Wafd going on trail for violating press ban on murder trial ... Ahram, Akhbar and Gomhoria also being investigated...

Alternate method... Big fine for satellite TV company in controversial case... More...

LA Times continues to try to capture the cultural mood...

Tipping the balance... Interesting views on the private vs state-owned press...

Mixing media... LA Times takes notice of a blogger who got a book contract...

Timely reversal... Destour editor Ibrahim Eissa gets a presidential pardon... More... Earlier: Destour editor plans to serve two month sentence... Journalists syndicate to fight... Earlier: Interesting goings on at the Ibrahim Eissa trial...

Meanwhile, Destour reporter arrested for covering a protest..

 

ARCHAEOLOGY
 

 

Colorful find... More golden mummies found in Fayoum... Photo...

 

No more antiquities cooperation with the Louvre...

 

More controversy... Zahi Hawass says he has evidence to prove that the Berlin Nefertiti was stolen..

 

Historical presence... Monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai takes part in digitization of world's oldest Bible...


 No more visitors... Are Pharaonic tombs in the Valley of the Kings doomed to disappear within 150 to 500 years if they remain open to tourists? 'Closed' sign coming soon to King Tut's tomb?

 

 

Second DNA lab for mummies...

 

Alive and well... NY Times profiles Zahi Hawass...

 

On the trail of Cleopatra's tomb...

New online project -- Digital Karnak...

 

New archaeological finds in Sinai...

 

LA Times: "What more does one need for a tale of intrigue and desire?" Earlier: Big question... Did a top German archaeologist cheat to ensure Egyptian officials would let him have the bust of Nefertiti...

Getting in shape... Dahshour's famous pyramids to get a tourism upgrade...

 

Just wondering... Was Cleopatra African?

Meanwhile, scientists to recreate 3,500-year-old Pharaonic perfume...

Real gold... Ancient jewelry found in a Pharaonic era tomb...

Nice surprise... Maintenance workers at the Pyramids have found an ancient statue buried close to the desert surface...

Another try... Is this what Cleopatra looked like?

More on satellite based archaeology... Satellites to help unearth antiquities...

Long memory... Formally asking Sweden for the return of 212 artifacts taken out of the country by a Swedish collector in mid 1920s...

Meanwhile, remains of ancient city found in Ain Sokhna...

Other way round... Returning a stolen artifact to Iraq -- with pics...

Failed attempt... Australian teacher who "allegedly stuffed his luggage with 2,000-year old animal mummies and religious figurines wrapped as gifts" was arrested and charged with smuggling antiquities

Meanwhile, more stolen artifacts come home, this time from the US...

Head back... Tricky smuggled antiquity coming home... Photos and more...

More discoveries near Saqqara...

Long hauls... Dallas press mulls over the anticipated figures at the King Tut exhibit...

A trinket did it... Ridiculous antiquities theft mix-up...

Just dig it... New Pyramid discovery in Saqara makes Zahi Hawass say, "You never know what the sands of Egypt might hide..."

When old & new intersect... What's going on at Abydos?

Brooklyn museum to show off fake Egypt sculptures

Endless flow... Granite head of Ramses II unearthed... Meanwhile, ancient skulls returned from Manchester garden...

Brand new look... The Telegraph's take on the pyramids clean-up... Plateau visitor experience gets a modernization push....

The campaign continues... Switzerland is to return a pharaoh's "eye" stolen 36 years ago from the statue of King Amenhotep III... Two fetuses found buried with Tutankhamun may have been his twin daughters...

Four small Sphinx statues found near Luxor...

Managing to bring back another looted artifact...

Not letting mysteries lie... Scientists are doing DNA tests on stillborn children found in the tomb of the Pharoah Tutankhamun in the hope of identifying their mother and grandmother...

Just another hidden solar vessel
Ancient Egyptian boat to be restored... More... Meanwhile, visitors can see it now via new technology...

Shedding light on the administrative and agricultural foundations of ancient Egypt's riches...

History hat trick... Ancient royal burial ground found...

Archaeologists discovered "ancient headquarters of the Pharaonic army guarding the northeastern borders..."

Well timed lost pyramid find...

 

SHOWBIZ
 

 

AFP says Ramadan TV inspires patriotism...

 

Hukuma show cancelled because of Nazif critique...

 

AFP's roundup of Ramadan TV...


Can you shake it?
Annual belly dancing festival continues to get coverage...

 

Clean break... Coverage of the new Youssry Nasrallah movie...

 

Hot flicks... A look at the summer movie lineup...

 

Big brouhaha... Media goes gaga over Sadat daughter's anger over Hollywood hit film... Reports from AP and AFP on the offending scene, and lots of commentary here...

 

 

Meanwhile, Variety is excited about the film industry and one of its star directors...

 

Plus: Transformers director brags about filming at the pyramids...

 

BBC reacts to Israeli Barenboim's Cairo Opera concert... Earlier: Barenboim will hold a concert in Egypt...

 

Troy was here... Turkish dance troupe mesmerizes Pyramids audience...

 

Another Qahwa Sada review, this time from Bloomberg...

 

Live in Dubai... The Egyptian film industry gets the Hollywood Reporter treatment.

Surround sound... Memphis blues musicians arrive for gigs...

Meanwhile, Egyptian American making it as a country singer...

Real relief... Hollywood power couple coming to Egypt for a holiday?

Moving picture... Part of big budget Hollywood film Transformers 2 filmed at the pyramids...

Adel Imam makes some controversial political comments...

Weird? Rumor that Nicholas Cage to play Sadat? More...

They're back... Reuters looks at the heavy metal music scene...

Who's art? BBC analyzes the relationship between Youssef  Chahine and the government..

Celebrating a craftsman... Media pays tribute to Youssef Chahine -- pieces by Bloomberg, BBC, NY Times, Guardian, and AFP...  Earlier: End of an era... Youssef Chahine, the nation's best-known filmmaker, dies...

Moving on... Attending the opening of the Cairo International Film Festival...

"Scary Spice" Mel. B to renew her wedding vows in Egypt next year...

Yahoo photo of Egypt's entrant in the Miss Universe contest....

Khawaga casting call... Nice article on playing a bit part in a big new film...

Preventing a shakedown... Actor Omar Sharif will refuse to pay a $455,000 civil judgment against him stemming from a scuffle with a Beverly Hills valet... More from the LA Times...

New Adel Imam film plagued by playing with fire mindsets...

Controversy over decision limiting Arab actors from taking part in Egyptian productions...

Life changing... 3 weeks in Egypt made a big difference for singer Alicia Keys...

Plot twists... Reuters meets the author of a new novel...

LA Times spotlights an interesting new short film... Meanwhile, BBC looks at the blogger turned sitcom writer who wants to get married...

Too political... Guardian: Censors have refused to allow the public release of Adam Sandler's comedy You Don't Mess With the Zohan.

Mirror theater... New play Ahwa Sada "has taken Cairo by storm..."

 

CRASH WATCH
 Telegraph gets gruesome details of the Luxor balloon crash...

 

Earlier: Another hot air balloon crash in Luxor...

 

Bus crash kills 12...

 

At least 7 dead in sunken fishing boat tragedy...

Cargo ship sinks off the Red Sea coast....

Building collapse in south kills 7...

16 dead in bus collision...

6 Russian tourists killed when coach overturned on highway...

When will it end? 59 dead in tragic bus crash in South...

Another deadly road accident..

Tourists die in bus crash..

Road accident kills at least 10..

9 drown as car plunges into Nile from ferry...

Death toll rises to 44 in train crash...

12 killed in head-on bus crash..

11 children have drowned in the Nile in separate incidents while celebrating the country's spring festival...

 

SPORTS
 

U-20 World Cup: 2-0 loss to Costa Rica puts youth team out of tournament.. Czech coach may lose job as a result...

Earlier: In it to win it... 4-2 win over Italy takes Egypt to Youth World Cup group of 16... Home crowd is happy... Youth team loses in second game... Good start... Youth national team wins first game... 

Meanwhile, another U-20 World Cup preview... 10 players to watch at the tourney...  Ambitious goal... Hoping for lots of spectators at the youth world cup... Global score... Details on the FIFA Youth World Cup taking place in Egypt... Soccer renewal... Under 20 hype begins...

 

Still number one... Topping the world squash rankings again...

 

Big questions... Will the team fast on game day? Keep hope alive... Abu Treika scores 2 as Rwanda is crushed... Team captain insists qualifying chances are good...

 

Mido heading back to Zamalek...

 

New entry... Gouna football club makes it to the premier league...

 

 

Yet another new coach for Ahly...

 

Dream deferred... Very poor showing against US...

 

Tough times ahead of national team in bid for World Cup qualification...

 

CCTV footage vindicates Egypt team from South Africa scandal..

 

Meanwhile, who robbed the team? More here and here... Earlier: Egypt showing worries Brazil... Respect again... Brazil beats  Egypt 4-3 on late penalty kick... Lots of challenges for Egypt in the confederations' cup...

 

Hoping against hope? Defiance and hope about the national team's World Cup qualifier chances here and here... Earlier: Rocky road... National team gets thrashed by Algeria in World Cup qualifier... Bottom of the group... Next up: Confederations cup matches in South Africa... "Egypt goes up against Brazil on June 15, plays Italy three days later and the U.S. on June 21..."  Two big games... Mido to miss World Cup qualifiers against Algeria on June 7 and Rwanda on July 5...

 

Another Portuguese coach for Ahly..

CNN summarizes the Jose era at Ahly...

Portuguese coach Manuel Jose will leave Egypt's Al Ahly at the end of the season... BBC calls him most successful coach to work in Africa ...

 

Zaki out for rest of season injury. Earlier: Learning the ropes.. More on Amr Zaki and Mido and Wigan here and here... Zaki clears the air with his UK coach? Bad news... Zaki so unprofessional says Wigan boss.

 

A healthy draw... Getting ready for the September Under 20 World Cup... Later this year, the FIFA Under-20 World Cup will be played in Egypt...

 

"Coach Hassan Shehata has declared that the country's dream of featuring at next year's World Cup remains intact despite a shock 1-1 draw at home with Zambia..."

 

Sports soar... Best-ever FIFA ranking for national soccer team... More..

 

Aboutrika presented with the BBC African Footballer of the Year award... More success... Aboutrika has been crowned the 2008 BBC African footballer of the year...

Ismaily beats Ahly..

Meanwhile, another up and coming squash champ...

Zamalek's German boss is sacked...

Watch out... Zamalek's Ghanaian striker in trouble for rude move....

From across the sea... Hadary may be coming back to town...

The Hassan twins, Hossam and Ibrahim, "have been banned until further notice by the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) for improper behavior during a North African Cup Winners Cup tie against Algeria's JSM Bejaia..."

Were Ahly's expectations too high? Ahly loses its first match in Japan 4-2... Earlier: Slipping through... Ahly African champs again, heading for FIFA finals in Japan...

Women join men at top of squash world... More...

Two fans charged with verbally abusing Mido... Earlier: Mido angry with the English Football Association...  Mido being taunted again...

Big chance... Another young soccer star being noticed by a top European club...

BBC profiles rising UK soccer star Amr Zaki... Earlier: Still making waves...

National team's world cup draw called easy on the one hand, tough and unpredictable on the other...

As always... More global squash domination... Update: Ashour wins...

A question of confidence... Optimistic about qualifying for the World Cup... Mido comments... Earlier: The path ahead... What's next for the national team following 4-0 win over Djibouti... It's a go... Shehata names squad for Djibouti... Nearly there... 1-0 against Congo... Abu Treika scores the winner... Earlier: An important game...  An in-depth analysis of Egypt's chances of qualifying for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa...

Flavio goal takes Ahly into African Champions League final... Ahly in African Champion's League semi... Ahly and Zamalek competing for African glory...

Making waves... FIFA highlights international superstars...

Plus: NY Times looks at Egyptian bridge champions Lily and Maud...

One for the neighborhood... NY Times profiles Paralympics weight lifting gold medalist... On target... Increasing the medal haul at the Paralympics Games in Beijing...

Sort of close... Olympic record but no medal for pentathlon swimmer. Congratulations... "Egypt won its first medal thanks to Hesham Mebsah who beat out Belarusian Andrei Kazusionak to win the bronze in Judo at the Beijing 2008 Olympics..." Just one medal... Mubarak questions Egypt's failure in Beijing... New star... Amr Zaki does well in the Premier league... Meanwhile, Mido is staying right where he is.. National soccer team lineup for 7 September showdown with Congo ...

African champions handed embarrassing 4-0 defeat by Sudan in World Cup warm-up match...

Convenient compromise... Egypt to host Sudan's World Cup qualifier game against Chad...

Wigan have completed the signing of Zamalek's Amr Zaki..

Another international... Moteab to get English lessons... Emad Moteab has revealed he is close to securing a move to Bristol City.

Guardian (pre-game) looks deeper at the Ahly Zamalek rivalry...

Back on track... National team wins one... Earlier: Last minute crush... Sad World Cup qualifier loss to Malawi.. Next World Cup qualifier at Malawi on Saturday... Encouraging win... Egypt thrash Djibouti in Group 12... First World cup qualifier: "a precious 2-1 win in a tough game played in Cairo...

Potential medal? Washington Post's very mini profile of first Egyptian female wrestler to compete in the Olympics...

 

 

 

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