Jan 25 Police Struggle to Contain Cairo Protests By Larisa Epatko Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Egypt's capital in an unusual spate of anti-government protests, spurred by online postings in the wake of mass protests in Tunisia that unseated its president. Continue reading
Jan 05 Egypt's Christian Community Shaken in Wake of Church Bombing 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… Continue reading
Jan 03 Watch News Wrap: Floodwaters Cover Large Swaths of Australian Outback In other news Monday, 22 cities and towns in the Australian state of Queensland have been inundated with floodwaters, prompting military airlifts of food and medical supplies. Also, police were pursuing a possible al-Qaida role in the deadly bombing of… Continue watching
Nov 29 Watch News Wrap: Afghan Policeman Kills 6 American Troops In other news Monday, an Afghan policeman turned his gun on American troops, killing six of them during a NATO training exercise in eastern Afghanistan, before he was killed. Continue watching
Nov 15 Watch Cleopatra Continues to Capture Imaginations, 2,000 Years Later The Egyptian ruler Cleopatra died more than 2,000 years ago, but still has a powerful presence today. Jeffrey Brown has a conversation with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff about her new book, "Cleopatra: a Life."… Continue watching
Nov 15 Monday on the NewsHour: Stacy Schiff, Author of 'Cleopatra: A Life' By Tom LeGro She is the stuff of myth and legend, one of history's great heroines: Cleopatra, queen of Egypt. Lover of Julius Caesar and Mark Antony. Subject of Shakespeare, Shaw and, of course, the cinema. But the real Cleopatra was far more… Continue reading
Nov 01 Monday's Art Notes By Tom LeGro In today's arts and culture headlines, George Hickenlooper, who won an Emmy Award in 1992 for directing "Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse," has died at age 47,… Continue reading
Aug 24 Tuesday's Art Notes By Molly Finnegan In today's roundup of arts and culture news, Egypt's culture minister was arrested after the Van Gogh heist, and a songwriter who penned hits for Louis Armstrong and Elvis Presley has died. Continue reading
Mar 04 Watch In Egypt, Religious Tensions Erupt in Violence Tensions are on the rise in Egypt between Muslim and Coptic Christian factions and these religious divisions have begun to escalate to violence. Fred de Sam Lazaro reports from Cairo. Continue watching