Tag Archives: egypt

Report Cites Countries’ Use of Laws to Repress Faith

WASHINGTON — Countries around the world, including allies of the United States, have used laws on blasphemy and apostasy to suppress political opponents, the State Department said on Monday in an annual ... Read more

IHT Special: Just in Time, a Lebanese Artist’s Work Is Shown at Tate Modern

Saloua Raouda Choucair did everything in her life early, or late. Her first exhibition in Beirut in 1947 is thought to be the first-ever show of abstract art in the Arab world. She had her only ... Read more

IHT Special: Christians Uneasy in Morsi’s Egypt

CAIRO — Wasfi Amin Wassef used to buy and sell jewelry from his shop in Cairo’s vast Khan al-Khalili bazaar. Now he mostly buys it. Well into a third year of economic malaise following ... Read more

World Briefing | Middle East: Prominent Egyptian Activist Ahmed Maher Jailed

A prominent Egyptian activist was jailed Friday on accusations of inciting protests in front of the Interior Ministry in March, state news media said. The activist, Ahmed Maher, was arrested at the Cairo ... Read more