CAIRO: As violent anti-government protests enter their fourth week, Sudan appears headed toward political paralysis, with drawn-out unrest across much of the...
CAIRO: Street protests against Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir show no sign of abating. A growing number of his former allies are clamoring for his...
CAIRO: Shady Lewis Botros says his recently published novel “Ways of the Lord” can be viewed, broadly, as an attempt to answer the question of what it’s like...
AL ARISH, Egypt: Mohammad Shaaban stood over trays of fresh fish at his tiny store in the coastal Sinai Peninsula city of Al-Arish, pointing to his right and...
CAIRO: Billboards across Cairo advertise luxury homes with “breathtaking” views in compounds with names like “La Verde” or...
DAHUK, Iraq: The 26-year-old Yazidi mother faces a heartbreaking choice. Her family is preparing to emigrate from Iraq to Australia and start a new life after...
KIRKUK, Iraq: A family of six lost children lives quietly in a small apartment among strangers in this northern Iraqi city. The “man of the house,” an...
CAIRO: In Yassin Mohammad’s sketches and paintings, he and other Egyptian prisoners are crammed into tiny cells, feet in each other’s faces and their few...
CAIRO: It reads like a murder mystery set in an exotic locale: an abbot found dead in a desert monastery; a monk defrocked and arrested; another held by...
ASWAN, Egypt: The world of their parents and grandparents was turned upside down more than 50 years ago when they were evacuated from villages along the Nile...
GROZNY, Russia: Even during the World Cup, which brought hordes of foreigners to Russia, the capital of Chechnya remained well off the beaten path for most...
CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s victory in last week’s election was never in doubt, but the vote produced a surprise runner-up – an unusually...
CAIRO: Accusations of sexual misconduct directed at two prominent human rights lawyers in Egypt – one of them a former presidential hopeful – have roiled the...
CAIRO: Campaigning began in Egypt’s presidential elections this weekend, a contest pitting a little-known, face-saving candidate against the incumbent,...
CAIRO: Egypt’s military Tuesday arrested its former chief of staff, who was planning to run in upcoming elections against President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi,...
CAIRO: U.S. Vice President Mike Pence’s upcoming visit to the Middle East comes at a time of intensely publicized friction between his administration and the...
CAIRO: The scale of the bloodshed was vastly higher than past militant attacks but the Egyptian government response was the same: three days of mourning,...
CAIRO: Egypt faces high expectations from Saudi Arabia and its other Gulf Arab benefactors that it will have their back as tensions rise with their rival...
SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt: Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi says Daesh (ISIS) militants are making their way to his country via Libya after the defeat of...
CAIRO: An Egyptian court has convicted actor Amr Waked for damaging a car parked outside his Cairo home, sentencing him to three months in prison. Some...
BENGHAZI, Libya: A series of military victories over extremist Islamic groups along Libya’s Mediterranean coastline has forced hundreds of militants,...
CAIRO: Cairo’s subway is perhaps the cheapest in the world. For a fare equivalent to 11 cents, you can ride as far as you want across the overcrowded,...
CAIRO: The alliance with Gulf countries to isolate Qatar has given a significant boost to Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi, who over the past three...
CAIRO: Egypt's response to the latest deadly attack against its sizable Christian minority - a wave of airstrikes against Islamic militant installations in...
CAIRO: It was a startling collision of religion and politics. Egypt’s president proposed a new law that would prevent Muslim men from ending their marriages...