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Egypt
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Politics
12/21/2011 7:21:05 PM
Tomas Riad, a Swedish professor of linguistics whose father is Egyptian, was yesterday installed as a member of the Swedish Academy
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Books
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12/12/2011 10:04:21 AM
The Sotheby's London auction house announced it will start bidding on a major cache of manuscripts by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian writer, Naguib Mahfouz on Thursday
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Books
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12/11/2011 6:24:17 PM
The Human Side in Naguib Mahfouz, by the novelist Saeed Salem, shows the sensitive side of the Nobel-winning writer
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World
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Region
12/11/2011 9:34:56 AM
An Arab League official says Arab foreign ministers will hold an emergency session on Syria by the end of the week in Cairo
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World
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International
12/10/2011 12:27:02 PM
Liberia's president, an activist, along with a Yemeni revolutionary are joint female Nobel Prize laureates in 2011, insisting that women are leaders and no longer victims
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Books
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12/8/2011 2:51:03 PM
Awarding of this year's Naguib Mahfouz Medal part of centenary celebrations held by AUC Press for Nobel-winning writer
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Books
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Review
12/7/2011 6:13:35 PM
New edition of interviews with Egyptian Nobel Prize winning novelist Naguib Mahfouz offers a frank and compelling portrait of the Arab world's greatest-ever novelist
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Arts & Culture
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Film
12/5/2011 3:51:01 PM
Samir Farid expresses disdain on behalf of Egypt's intellectual and arts communities at the media's silence, following Islamist attacks of Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz
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Elections 2011
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News
12/2/2011 5:40:00 PM
Salafist parliamentary candidate El-Shahat, set off alarms in intellectual circles when he reiterated on TV his belief that Egyptian Nobel prize author Naguib Mahfouz promoted promiscuity and atheism in his works
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Arts & Culture
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Film
12/1/2011 4:10:35 PM
A prestigious film school founded by Fidel Castro and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez is seeking a return to its roots by offering free tuition to its global students
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World
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Region
10/21/2011 10:15:12 AM
U.N. Security Council envoys hope for a unanimous approval of a resolution on Yemen on Friday that condemns the government crackdown against pro-democracy demonstrators
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World
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International
10/18/2011 11:01:11 AM
Yemen's Nobel Peace Prize winner Tawakkul Karman says the UN must act "immediately and decisively" to halt a deadly government crackdown on protesters calling for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to resign
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World
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International
10/16/2011 12:29:41 PM
At least 88 people have been arrested in New York after police on horseback clashed with protesters in Times Square on Saturday during a global day of demonstrations against corporate greed
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World
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International
10/16/2011 12:14:39 PM
Myanmar's cautious relaxation of strict government control has grabbed the spotlight in recent weeks, but it's only the latest act in a summer of political change in Southeast Asia
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World
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International
10/15/2011 4:47:12 PM
Opposition parties in Liberia on Saturday said they were pulling out of the elections, claiming fraud, as vote-counting put incumbent President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf in the lead
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World
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International
10/15/2011 2:52:30 PM
Liberian authorities say an office of the ruling party has been burnt down, as incumbent Ellen Johnson Sirleaf fails to win a majority in a fierce presidential elections battle with the opposition
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Arts & Culture
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Music
10/15/2011 2:16:00 PM
Three nights of oriental and Polish folk fusion music to the Nobel prize-winning poetry by Czeslaw Milosz opened at Darb 1718 yesterday, 14 October with two remaining performances on Saturday and Sunday
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Arts & Culture
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Music
10/10/2011 2:21:37 PM
On three consecutive evenings Darb 1718, El Genaina Theatre and the Cairo Jazz Club will host a Polish musician, setting a Polish Nobel Prize winner's poetry to folk-inspired music
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Business
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Economy
10/10/2011 1:27:14 PM
Two university professors to be awarded prize for research on 'cause and effect in the macroeconomy'
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World
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Region
10/10/2011 12:29:12 PM
Yemen’s security forces attack female street celebration in the city of Taez as they marched to celebrate Tawakkul Karman's Nobel Peace Prize
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