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It was projected to be a golden year for Lebanon and one to beat all records; instead 2006, with its string of crises including a 34-day war, proved a disaster for the tourism…
Six months after thousands of tonnes of fuel oil spilled into the Mediterranean when Israel bombed a Lebanese power plant, the waters are still spitting out black poison despite…
In the depths of Cairo’s City of the Dead, Umm Essam unveils her latest creation: a blood-red belly-dance costume, complete with golden pearls. But there are no models or podiums…
Fifty-one people were killed on Monday when two trains travelling on the same track collided in northern Egypt in the country’s deadliest rail crash in four years. Two carriages…
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s Jalila, the new Arab superheroine, coursing across the sky, black hair flying, in her battle to right the wrongs and ensure that justice…
Darfur’s two rebel factions came under fresh pressure on Tuesday to sign a fragile peace agreement as Khartoum. Only the largest faction of one of two main rebel groups signed…
The road to peace in Sudan’s strife-torn western region of Darfur remains long, experts say, with deep tribal differences yet to be overcome and a near-impossible disarmament…
”Had Cleopatra’s nose been shorter, the whole face of the world would have changed,” French philosopher Blaise Pascal famously said three and half centuries ago. Today, it would…
On the back of dire poverty and legal shortcomings a new mafia is prospering in Egypt and turning the country into the regional hub for the human organs trade. There are no…
Behind a vale of trees lies the largest leper colony in the Middle East, a virtual oasis in Egypt for those who have been ostracised by society. The Abu Zaabal centre in the…
Surviving passengers of an ageing Egyptian ferry that sank in the Red Sea, leaving hundreds feared dead, blamed the crew Saturday for failing to turn around when a fire broke out…
Hospital patients, prison detainees and security forces were voting on Monday at the start of elections for a full-term Parliament set to restore full sovereignty to war-torn…
At least 36 Iraqi police officers and cadets were killed on Tuesday in a double suicide bombing in Baghdad. The massive blast — on the same day that eight other Iraqi security…
At least 30 people were killed when a car bomb exploded outside a hospital in Iraq on Thursday in a notorious area known as the ”triangle of death”. The bombing, which also left…
Prominent anti-Syrian journalist Samir Kassir was assassinated on Thursday when his car blew up in a residential sector of mostly Christian east Beirut in an attack that drew…
A suicide bomber detonated a car loaded with up to 225kg of explosives outside an army centre in Baghdad on Wednesday, killing 36 people, mainly recruits queuing to sign up. The…
