In a bright and spacious classroom, with plants overflowing in the courtyard outside, six students lean forward at their desks looking at the 10-digit addition they are asked to make. One student stands before the numbers on the chalkboard and a red and yellow-beaded abacus. But her attention is on the abacus she visualises in her mind.
Author : Eva Bartlett
Publ.Date : Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:51 GMT
The midday sun punishes a group of veiled women as they wait in line to fill their buckets and jerrycans. They have travelled on foot to a rusty tap on the outskirts of Cairo that gushes irrigation water never intended for human consumption.
Author : Cam McGrath* - IPS/IFEJ
Publ.Date : Fri, 6 Sep 2010 02:05 GMT
An Egyptian military court handed down sentences Monday in the trial of eight civilian factory workers who led a protest against deteriorating safety conditions in an army-owned factory. Rights groups say the trial should never have taken place.
Author : Cam McGrath
Publ.Date : Tue, 31 Aug 2010 02:58 GMT
As Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood gears up to contest November parliamentary elections, some analysts note the relatively few gains made by the Brotherhood- led opposition over the last five years in an assembly dominated by the ruling National Democratic Party (NDP).
Author : Adam Morrow and Khaled Moussa al-Omrani
Publ.Date : Tue, 3 Sep 2010 01:03 GMT
As President Obama on Wednesday initiates the ninth U.S. attempt in the last 30 years to bring about a final Palestinian-Israeli peace agreement, expectations are low and pessimism is high.
Author : Analysis by Jerrold Kessel and Peter Klochendler
Publ.Date : Mon, 2 Sep 2010 13:10 GMT
The Muslim festival Eid approaches, but not the end to power cuts that have darkened the month-long Ramadan fasting leading up to the festival. Or to the agony of Gazans, made worse by the reminder that it's approaching festive time.
Author : Mohammed Omer
Publ.Date : Thu, 5 Sep 2010 01:44 GMT
As Hamas cracks down on the rights of Palestinian women in the Gaza Strip, their sisters in the occupied West Bank are slowly gaining ground. But a bureaucracy, that is sometimes supported by foreign aid, is crippling these advances.
Author : Mel Frykberg
Publ.Date : Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:03 GMT
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