Cairo - "God is not a policeman, grabbing perpetrators by their necks," Egyptian poet Helmi Salem wrote in his 2007 poem, On the Balcony of Leila Mourad.
"He is a simple villager, feeding the duck, checking the cow's udder with his fingers, crying: there is a plenty of milk."
When a lawyer brought a lawsuit against Salem and Ibdaa, the government-funded magazine that published the poem, charging them with "insulting the Divine Entity," Salem's defence attorney never expected it would go far.
Cairo - Egypt's public prosecutor on Wednesday accused Hezbollah of sending operatives to Egypt to carry out attacks in the country and to smuggle weapons and money to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement released Wednesday evening Abdel-Magid Mohammed accused Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah of dispatching agents to Egypt during Israel's offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Cairo - A public prosecutor in Cairo on Wednesday accused Hezbollah of plotting attacks in Egypt, the Interior Ministry said.
Egypt's domestic intelligence agency, State Security Investigations, supplied the prosecutor with information indicating that leaders of Hezbollah, the Lebanese Islamist group, sent members to Egypt to gather recruits for its organisation, a source in Egypt's Interior Ministry told the German Press Agency dpa on Wednesday, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Cairo - Egyptian security forces have arrested 49 men, including seven Israeli citizens and one Lebanese citizen, on charges of supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, the Interior Ministry and the lawyer for the men said on Wednesday.
The men, who were arrested in December from locations around Egypt, included 41 Egyptians, seven Arab Israelis, and at least one Lebanese man, a source in the Egyptian Interior Ministry, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the German News Agency dpa on Wednesday.
Last April 6, teargas filled the streets of the Nile Delta industrial town of Mahalla al-Kobra as rioters firebombed buildings, hurled rocks at riot police, and toppled a freestanding poster of Egyptian President Hosny Mubarak. At least two people were killed in clashes with the police and dozens more were wounded.
The riots followed violence in bread queues at government-subsidized bakeries, as spiraling wheat prices drove more of the country's urban poor to rely on subsidized bread.
Cairo, April 4 : An embalming bed used by ancient Egyptians to prepare the deceased for mummification has been discovered by chance in Luxor, Egypt.
According to a report in Al-Ahram Weekly, a number of wooden plaques that were found inside a jar unearthed in tomb KV63 at the Valley of the Kings on Luxor's west bank have proved to be the remains of a mummification bed, following weeks of restoration work.
Cairo - "God is not a policeman, grabbing perpetrators by their necks," Egyptian poet Helmi Salem wrote in his 2007 poem, On the Balcony of Leila Mourad.
Cairo - Egypt's public prosecutor on Wednesday accused Hezbollah of sending operatives to Egypt to carry out attacks in the country and to smuggle weapons and money to Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
Cairo - A public prosecutor in Cairo on Wednesday accused Hezbollah of plotting attacks in Egypt, the Interior Ministry said.
Cairo - Egyptian security forces have arrested 49 men, including seven Israeli citizens and one Lebanese citizen, on charges of supporting Hamas and Hezbollah, the Interior Ministry and the lawyer for the men said on Wednesday.
Cairo - What a difference a year makes in Egypt.
Cairo, April 4 : An embalming bed used by ancient Egyptians to prepare the deceased for mummification has been discovered by chance in Luxor, Egypt.
