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The Secretary General of the Egyptian Doctors Syndicate Ehab al-Taher has submitted his resignation following outrage over the syndicate’s publishing…

JERUSALEM (AP) — Zeev Sternhell, a prominent Israeli academic and expert in the study of fascism who issued dire warnings…

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Billionaire Saudi businessman Saleh Abdullah Kamel, who founded the banking and real estate conglomerate Dallah…

BAHTIM, Egypt (AP) — Gold and silver streamers fluttered in the breeze, hung from house to house down the alley,…

Sir Roger Moore, who died Tuesday at age 89, always made sure to laugh at himself before the audience could.…

Filmmaker Mohamed Khan has passed away at Andalus Hospital in the Cairo neighborhood of Maadi at the age of 74.Cinematographer…

Activist and writer Elie Wiesel, the World War Two death camp survivor who won a Nobel Peace Prize for becoming…

Nigerian novelist and poet Chinua Achebe, widely seen as a grandfather of modern African literature, has died at the age…

Former Cairo Opera House director Abdel Moneim Kamel passed away on Monday, at the age of 64. Kamel has been…

“Today I lost part of my life. Farewell, Samer,” scholar Amr Abdel Rahman wrote of of his longtime friend Samer…