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Lamia Radi

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Lamia Radi

Flags, not veils as Cairo celebrates

Girls wearing the Egyptian flag instead of the veil danced among tens of thousands in the streets of Cairo on Sunday night after their national team won a record-breaking sixth…

Refugees return to devastated Lebanon camp

Dozens of families, many of them empty-handed, returned on Wednesday to a bombed-out Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon that was the scene of 15 weeks of fierce battles…

Egypt links deadly bombings

Egyptian investigators have found connections between the deadly bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh and another wave of attacks last October on Sinai resorts further north, security…

Egypt hunts for Pakistani bombing suspects

Egyptian police exchanged fire with gunmen on Monday as they hunted for six Pakistanis suspected of involvement in Saturday’s deadly bombings in the Red Sea resort of Sharm…

Low turnout mars Egyptian referendum

At a school in a popular district of Cairo, a man urges Egyptians to vote on a key electoral reform, crying ”Your vote matters! Say yes to democracy” — but many polling stations…

Sudan’s grandad of funk still defiant after exile

Mohammed Wardi, the popular Sudanese singer whose soaring “golden throat” voice has come to embody the spirit of an entire nation and who recently made a triumphant return from…

Armed with a plan, Mubarak heads for Camp David

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak returns to the Middle East’s centre stage this week when he puts forward a peace plan during summit talks in Camp David.