For approximately Rs 2.36 crore a family can lease a exclusive vista of Islam's holiest site and owners are promised 25-year Saudi visas.
Section: World | Friday, September 1, 2006 23:50 IST
Naguib Mahfouz, Cairo’s master storyteller and the only Arab to win the Nobel Prize for Literature, died on Wednesday at 94, the last of a line of pioneering Egyptian 20 th Century artists.
Section: World | Thursday, August 31, 2006 23:28 IST
With his death, the jihadi fringe has lost its Che Guevara, a bold and theatrical performer on the stage of international terror. A DNA Analysis
Section: World | Thursday, June 8, 2006 22:49 IST
Egypt is seeing a new breed of social activists who are recording state brutalities and airing them on the news secretly.
Section: World | Thursday, June 8, 2006 22:40 IST
There’s a new hero in the Arab world, and he doesn’t even speak Arabic.
Section: World | Wednesday, May 31, 2006 22:39 IST
Sometimes the muezzin's voice lilts across the capital's rooftops and alleyways, a persistent and gentle call to prayer.
Section: World | Thursday, May 18, 2006 0:48 IST
A high-ranking appeals court judge, Bestawissi had been in this room many times, presiding over the trials of fellow jurists accused of corruption.
Section: World | Thursday, May 4, 2006 23:29 IST
