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Christians and supporters held a mass protest in Cairo following the bombing. Photo by AFP/Getty As Egypt's Christian community prepares to celebrate Coptic Christmas eve on Thursday, many are still mourning the New Year's Day car bombing of a church in Alexandria that left 21 worshipers dead ...
... course, there are many topics to discuss, even within the realm of nuclear diplomacy. Monday morning, we sat down to talk with the leader of Egypt's delegation, Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit, about nuclear security, Iran, Israel, and growing concerns about a new nuclear arms race in the Middle ...
... the Egyptian character. ALAA AL ASWANY: It could be repeated, but I don't think this is an opening of an era of killing in Egypt, because, as I said, the Egyptian culture, which is very old and very civilized, will never tolerate -- will never tolerate it. So, we have ...
JUDY WOODRUFF: Finally tonight, we continue our stories tied to "Arabesque," the festival of Arab arts at Washington's Kennedy Center. Jeffrey Brown traveled to Egypt recently and talked with three of the artists taking part in the festival.JEFFREY BROWN: A jewelry maker taking from the past to create ...
... overnight and the headquarters of the Hamas armed brigades.Empty pumps. It's nearly two weeks since petrol was brought in through the tunnels from Egypt. And this morning, the power station was turned off because it had no fuel.People queued for bread, but today Hamas told Channel 4 ...
... the truce to continue, but an escalation in rocket fire could bring strong retaliation."We are willing to abide by the understandings reached through the Egyptians, but it can't be unilateral. There has to be a total cessation of all hostile fire from Gaza into Israel for calm to ...
... TV. The situation puts Israel in a difficult spot. It is concerned about the free flow of militants and weapons into Gaza, but cannot criticize Egypt too sharply, for fear of alienating one of the few Arab countries with which it has a peace treaty. "We expect the Egyptians to ...
Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz, the only Arabic writer to have won the Nobel Prize for literature for his progressive work on life in Egypt, died at the age of 94. A professor of Arabic literature discusses Mahfouz's works.
... some sort of connection. It's hard to qualify how close the connection, but some sort of connection to al-Qaida. MARGARET WARNER: But do Egyptian authorities think, for instance, that that was the group that was responsible, when you said four different groups claim responsibility? SARAH GAUCH: They don ...
... disaster. There were high winds and a sandstorm overnight on Saudi Arabia's west coast, according to the Associated Press. Most of the passengers were Egyptians working in Saudi Arabia but included some Egyptians on their way home from the annual haj pilgrimage to Mecca. Adel Shukri, the head of ...
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