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THE WEEK PRISMS LOST THEIR LUSTER 'NO NILE, NO EGYPT.' MOHAMED KAMEL AMR, Egypt's Foreign Minister, opposing an Ethiopian dam project that could stem the flow of...
Anger in Southern Egypt Over Islamist Governor
(LUXOR, Egypt) — Angry tourism workers and activists in Luxor threatened Monday to block a newly appointed Islamist governor from his office because of his links...
U.S.-Bound Egypt Plane Diverted After Threat
British fighter aircraft escorted a plane from Cairo bound for New York to an emergency landing in the U.K. after a passenger discovered a letter onboard...
Egypt Convicts NGO Workers, Including 16 Americans
An Egyptian court on Tuesday sentenced 43 non-profit workers, including the son of the U.S. secretary of transport and 15 other Americans, to prison in a case...
Egypt: Court Rules Legislature Illegally Elected
(CAIRO) — Egypt's highest court ruled on Sunday that the nation's Islamist-dominated legislature and constitutional panel were illegally elected, dealing a...
Photo Essays
Born Under Fire: The Dawn of Israel, 1948
Sixty-five years ago this week, in the midst of a civil war and at the tail end of the decades-long British Mandate of Palestine, the state of Israel was born...
Cast in Mud: Child Laborers of Cairo
In Egypt, there are 1.4 million child laborers. Children from Cairo's City of the Dead toil in tile, glass, shoe and carpet factories 10 hours a day, six days a...
Time.com Specials
Top 10 Famous Protest Plazas
For almost two weeks, Cairo's Tahrir Square has been flooded with Egyptians demanding an end to Hosni Mubarak's government. TIME takes a look at plazas and...
Top 10 Autocrats in Trouble
The massive protests in Egypt aimed at ousting President Hosni Mubarak mark an unprecedented moment in Egyptian history and a very uncomfortable one in Mubarak's...
Articles from Around the Web
Islamists Press Blasphemy Cases in a New Egypt
The number of blasphemy cases, once rare in Egypt, has increased sharply as Islamists assert their new power in public life. ...
Egypt and Ethiopia agree to bridge dam divide
Foreign ministers try to quell tensions over Ethiopia's plans to divert Blue Nile in controversial dam project. ...
Egypt's Morsi gets poor reviews from Islamists after first year of presidency
ALEXANDRIA, EGYPT -- As the first year of Mohamed Morsi's presidency draws to a close later this month, this country is bracing for what organizers promise will be...
New Governor Is a Shock to Some Inside Egypt
The new governor of Luxor, Adel Asaad Khayyat, comes from the political arm of an Islamist group that once carried out terrorist attacks. ...
