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 Here comes Al-Fankoosh
What do a Korean brewery and
an old Adel Imam film have in common?
January 14, 2002

STAR BAROMETER
Was Barry White Egyptian?

CRITIC
Whose voice?

VIEW FROM CAIRO
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Gates in Cairo

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TODAY'S TOP NEWS

BREAKING!

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

 

SPORTS

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

 

Meanwhile, Nigeria interested in coach Shehata...

 

ARCHAEOLOGY
Historic site...

Oldest monastery renovated...

 

 



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The most useful Arabic media resource online


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POLITICS

"I don't want to be president of Egypt!" -- In depth interview with Baradie in Foreign Policy...

 

Press Syndicate takes action against journalists with Israeli contacts...

 

Militants may be plotting...

 

Some not happy about Nazif new marriage...

 

Tension between police and flood victims in Sinai... Aid convoy for Aswan flood victims...

 

Changing the game... Good AP feature on Baradie and politics...

 

 

 

ECONOMY

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...

 

 

 

MORE POLITICS, ECONOMY, AND MORE
IN HOT TOPICS BELOW

 

MISC
Organ transplant law on the way...

 

Veil as barrier to harassment?

 

Guardian goes to Basata...

 

 

SHOWBIZ

CNN compares Mahmoud Reda to Fred Astaire...

 

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

 

 

ARCHAEOLOGY

Tut DNA...

 

Huge open air museum in Luxor...

 

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

 

 

MEDIA

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

 

HOT TOPICS

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

 

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...

 

 

 

ECONOMY

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

Moussa rules out presidency run...

 

Detaining more Muslim brothers... Earlier:

New leader for the Muslim Brotherhood... Critics...

 

Copts worried... Earlier: Activists puzzled by Nagaa Hammadi arrest... Aftermath of attack -- here, here and here... Earlier: In the aftermath of sectarian tragedy, commentary from Guardian, The Age, LA Times, VOA...  Bloody Christmas... Tragedy as sectarianism rears ugly head again... Reports here, here and here...

Baradie keeps talking presidential politics...

 

Less politics for Muslim Brotherhood? Reports from Reuters and CS Monitor... New leaders elected...

 

 

Much more politics here...

 

 

 

MEDIA
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...

 

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...

 

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

 

 

 

SPORTS

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...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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