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Egyptian election being felt around the world
Whoever is chosen as the next - or, really, first -- Egyptian president is less important than the fact that the election is happening. And the world is watching, with thousands of expats taking part in the historic event. ...
Blood and guts on ice, but compared to others is hockey just a sissy sport?
Fighting in the NHL playoffs was described by one player as "out of control" this week but ice hockey doesn't make the top team in a worldwide comparison of all-things-violent. Take a soccer match, for instance, and then there's bull running ...
Egypt’s presidential elections filled with intrigue
Politics junkies bored of the American presidential slog can get some kicks from Egypt's election next month: candidates are dropping out left and right and the most powerful political party hasn't settled on a candidate. ...
Bus monitors in Cairo empowered as computer whizzes
It was their own Arab Spring. Several women in Cairo unhappy with their low wages as bus monitors made the bold move of complaining to the school board. They were lucky that Rana el Kaliouby was there to hear them -- and to do something about it....
Egypt: where have all the police gone?
What would you do if cars drove down the wrong side of the road? If your walk home meant dodging random street vendors? Cairo is unstable in a thousand small ways....
Egypt’s political football
In Egypt and throughout the Gulf region, football is politics. The stadium is a place for displays of power as well as fanfare. What happened in Port Said was a message, not a mistake... ...
Happy Anniversary, Egyptian Revolution
Faces in the crowd from Cairo’s Tahrir Square on the first anniversary of the Egyptian revolution...
Shaking the patriarchal cage in Egypt
The Islamists won the elections in a landslide. The military are still in control. And the young revolutionaries who sparked the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak? They're still protesting and they're using the media to channel their discontent ...
One Syrian activist’s lonely exile
As the uprising and the brutal repression of it continue in Syria, the story of one young man who felt he had no choice but to protest and now lives a shadow life in Egypt ...
Christmas in Egypt with checkpoints and protests
The Coptic Christmas celebrations this weekend come at a time of unprecedented political upheaval. What will the Islamist victory at Egypt's elections mean for the Middle East's largest Christian community? Two Copts tell us what they are going to do. ...
After the Spring, tourism falls in Egypt
No lines. No waits. Great sights. What better time to go to Egypt? But as our photo essay shows, the tourists have yet to return to Tahrir Square. ...
The cotton kings and the carpet pharoah
Mohamed Mansour once worked in a pizza parlor in North Carolina. Today his family firm represents General Motors and McDonalds. Mohammed Farid Khamis started with a single loom. Today he makes carpets for Target and Walmart. ...
“I don’t tell people I am American any more”
Individual Americans living in Egypt report that the atmosphere is becoming more hostile towards them. Is anti-Americanism really getting worse? Magdi Abdelhadi reports ...
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