8 September 2008


Smith was recently named the best-paid
actor in Hollywood by Forbes.
 
Actor Will Smith is to play a pharaoh in ancient Egypt in a new Hollywood drama, trade publication Variety said.

The London Telegraph
7 Sep 2008
 
Sukhdev Sandhu sinks into a gripping, steamy and occasionally soapy novel from one of Egypts bestselling writers



There are writers and there are storytellers. Alaa Al Aswany is definitely, defiantly, a storyteller.

The Associated Press
7 September 2008

Local residents searching for survivors try to clear away rubble
with their bare hands and basic tools.
(AP Photo/Ben Curtis) (Ben Curtis - AP)

Local residents searching for survivors try to clear away rubble with their bare hands and basic tools, following a rock slide from the towering Muqattam cliffs onto the sprawling Manshiyet Nasr slum on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2008. Massive boulders weighing dozens of tons crashed down on the Egyptian shantytown Saturday killing at least 24 people, and many others are believed to be buried under the hundreds of tons of rock that fell, in the latest disaster to strike the country.

THE TRIBUNE
6 September 2008

Pope Shenouda III of Egypt has written a book that jarred my brain by its title and caused my head to turn for a second look.

 
          H H Pope Shenouda III
 
A book I read for my summer vacation was one of the most intoxicating romances ever written. Pope Shenouda III of Egypt has written a book that jarred my brain by its title and caused my head to turn for a second look.

The American Interest
September/October 2008

 
Dunne says Gamal is Mubarak's most likely successor,
but there are other factors to be considered.

CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak’s departure from office, “whenever and however it occurs,” will be extremely significant and the West needs to start thinking about who will come next and “how we will work with him,” American political analyst Michele Dunne wrote in an article.  

The Guardian
 
Women in Egypt have broken their silence on sexual harassment and are demanding
the right to go out in public without being pestered.
 

          Khaled Diab

The harassment of women on Egypt's streets has long been ignored as an ugly fact of modern life. Whether on their way to work, study or play, millions of women are pestered verbally. Of course, harassment is a challenge everywhere, as recent debates on Cif have revealed. However, there is hardly a woman in Egypt I know who has not been on the receiving end of unwanted male attention.

BBC News
3 September 2008
 

                    NOHA WAGIH
 
NOHA WAGIH
Once I was out driving with my brother when he stopped at a supermarket and I waited for him outside. Two guys got out of a car and walked towards me in an intimidating way. They started commenting on the way I look and the way I'm dressed.