For thousands of years men and women across the Middle East have retreated to their local hammams to sweat, get scrubbed and socialize with friends.
For thousands of years men and women across the Middle East have retreated to their local hammams to sweat, get scrubbed and socialize with friends.
CNN's Schams Elwazer takes us inside Doha's cultural landmark at the Museum of Islamic Art as it celebrates its first anniversary.
Through time the art and architecture of the Islamic world has defined a civilization that once extended from Cordoba in Spain to the Mogul empire in China and India.
INSIDE THE MIDDLE EAST RE-LAUNCHES ON SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
Home of the ancient pyramids and the Arab League, Cairo blends three thousand years of Egyptian history. Today, this sprawling capital, Africa's largest city, teems with life and sound.
Opening the Muslim-world leg of the "Audacity of Hope" world tour with the universal Islamic greeting "Assalamu alaikum" (May peace be with you) to thunderous applause, President Obama began his long-awaited major address by going straight to many of our pressing geopolitical issues.
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CNN's Frederik Pleitgen goes to a unique man to get advice on how to deal with the financial crisis.
CNNMoney: Oil jumps higherupdated: Thu Nov 13 2008 15:08:00
Oil prices rebounded from a 21-month low Thursday as equity markets recovered and investors weighed the possibility that OPEC may pledge another production cut before the end of the month.
Caught between the West and nuclear upstarts like Iran and North Korea, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency has one of the toughest jobs in diplomacy
Archaeologists will excavate hundreds of fragments of an ancient Egyptian wooden boat entombed in an underground chamber next to Giza's Great Pyramid
Egypt will reopen its Rafah border crossing with the Hamas-run Gaza Strip for two days this week to allow hundreds of stranded on both sides to cross
Egyptian archaeologists discovered the bottom portion of a previously undiscovered pryamid near Cairo, Egypt.
A bus carrying dozens of Canadian and European tourists overturned and caught fire in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.
An American cargo ship under contract to the U.S. Navy opened fire on a small Egyptian boat while moving through the Suez Canal, the U.S. military said Tuesday
There's only one way to get to Qorsaya island -- a boat that ferries people back and forth all day.
Getting a visa can be a thicket of red tape -- or as easy as pie. Whether you should hire someone or do it yourself depends on where you're going.
There is something almost indescribably exhilarating about suddenly evaporating borders, an almost palpable electricity that pulses through the air.
Thousands of Gazans pour across the border into Egypt. CNN's Ben Wedeman was there for the dramatic breakout.
Gaza's windfallupdated: Sun Jan 27 2008 19:33:00
On the newly opened border with Egypt, goods are flowing into Gaza one way or another. CNN's Ben Wedeman reports.
Israeli officials Sunday expressed hope that Egypt will regain control of its border crossing with Gaza as the flow of Palestinians slowed to a trickle due to heavy rains and muddy roads.
Time.com: A Decade of De-miningupdated: Tue Dec 04 2007 06:05:00
Ten years after a global pact to outlaw land mines, Afghanistan has seen genuine progress
One of Egypt's best-known bloggers posts videos of police abuse. CNN's Aneesh Raman reports from Cairo
A guide to what to expect when in the Arab world during the month-long fast and feast
Terror mastermind Osama bin Laden plans a new video addressing the American people regarding the anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, terror monitoring groups said Thursday
A ferry carrying a wedding party sank in the Nile south of Cairo on Friday, and police said dozens of passengers were missing.
A Mideast peace conference called for by President Bush will take place in September on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York
Dr. Heba Kotb is tackling a taboo in the Arab world unlike anyone else: She's talking about sex openly on a show broadcast all over the Middle East.
Growing piles of rubbish in cities is something that concerns city dwellers around the globe.
A head-on collision between a school bus and a truck killed 18 students and injured eight others on a road south of Cairo Wednesday morning, according to Egypt's interior ministry and the Middle East News Agency.
It was a time when you felt you were covering a profound historic shift.
Locals at the Wehdat Palestinian refugee camp used to toss their garbage on the front steps of the town's main day center for the mentally disabled.
Cairo is a lodestone of civilization, the center of a complex field of geographical, historical and cultural currents compressed into one chaotic megalopolis on the banks of the Nile. Egyptians proudly refer to their capital as the "Mother of all Cities." Medieval Arabs called it the "Mother of the World." For centuries it has been a natural meeting point between African, Arabic and European cultures. To walk through Cairo -- from the pyramids at Giza, via the Roman-influenced old town, the mosques and souks of Ottoman-era Darb al-Ahmar, the Garden City's Art Deco suburbs to Nasser's secular modernism -- is to step along a seismic fault line of epochs and empires. Yet in its modern incarnation, Cairo inspires more awe than love. Overcrowded, overflowing and overstretched, Cairo is home to more than 16 million people, with an estimated 13 square centimeters of greenery for each of them. As the suburbs begin to creep around them, even the pyramids are no longer sacred space. Away from the tourist routes, bi
Three people died and 24 others were hurt Monday when two trains collided just north of Cairo, state-run Nile TV said, quoting civil defense sources.
Naguib Mahfouz, the legendary Egyptian story-teller who is the only writer in Arabic to win a Nobel Prize in Literature, has died aged 95 in Cairo, his doctor said.
Two passenger trains collided and burst into flames north of Cairo Monday morning, killing at least 57 people and injuring 128 others, according to the Egyptian health minister.
I decided to focus on 14-year-old Hussein precisely because he looked more like a thug than a poor homeless child.
State security forces have again attacked demonstrators in central Cairo, arresting dozens of people who had turned out to show support for two judges.
I never thought I'd ever spend a birthday in a sushi restaurant in Cairo.
Initial testing indicated that an Egyptian woman who died Thursday near Cairo was a victim of bird flu, a World Health Organization spokesman said.
Secretary Condoleezza Rice travels to Cairo, Riyadh and Abu Dhabi this week on a mission that has taken on a new urgency in the face of Iran's nuclear defiance and Hamas's assumption of control over the Palestinian parliament.
Cairo Forumupdated: Thu Feb 09 2006 07:03:00
The Scene spent the day in Cairo with French rapper MC Solaar. Do you have a favorite hangout in the Egyptian capital? What's your favorite MC Solaar track? Send us your suggestions and ideas and read your comments below.
A crew member of the ferry that sank Friday in the Red Sea said Sunday water used to extinguish a fire aboard caused the ship to list in heavy winds.
An aging Egyptian passenger ferry loaded to near capacity with about 1,400 people and dozens of vehicles sank Friday in the Red Sea, an official said.
If you're a movie lover and want to go back in time to imagine that you're in "The Maltese Falcon" or "Indiana Jones" then Cairo is for you! A sprawling buzzing mass of humanity.
Do you agree with MC Solaar's selections? Send us your ideas and comments below.
Q & Aupdated: Fri Feb 03 2006 11:10:00
The Scene talks to French rapper MC Solaar about the influence of a Cairo childhood on his music.
Have you got an inside tip on Cairo? Send us your ideas and suggestions below.
Cairo City Guideupdated: Fri Feb 03 2006 10:51:00
Check out The Scene's recommendations for the Egyptian capital and send us your own suggestions below.
Up to six Australian tourists have been killed and 24 injured in a bus crash in Egypt, Australian officials say.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has condemned as unjustified the killings by Egyptian soldiers of between 10 and 20 Sudanese refugees in a wealthy Cairo neighborhood.
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan has condemned as unjustified the killings by Egyptian soldiers of between 10 and 20 Sudanese refugees in a park in wealthy Cairo neighborhood.
The Egyptian government has determined that a biochemist arrested last week has no links to the July 7 attack on the London mass transit system.
Federal law enforcement officials tell CNN the FBI is investigating the background of a former North Carolina State University student sought by British police in connection with the London bombings.
The Italian government has denied having any prior knowledge of the alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in 2003.
Although Egypt stands at the crossroads of continents and civilizations, images of pyramids, The Sphinx and mummies dominate, eclipsing its other historic cultural and religious strands.
Two veiled woman shot at a tourist bus, while a man blew himself up, in two attacks against tourists in Cairo that left the three assailants dead and seven people wounded.
A French citizen wounded in last week's explosion in Cairo has died, according to the French foreign ministry.
An obscure Islamic group has claimed responsibility for a bombing in the heart of old Cairo Thursday that killed three people, including one American.
A suspected bomb attack in a historic neighborhood of the Egyptian capital has killed two people, including a French tourist, and wounded 18 others, authorities say.
They're making another go of it ... again.
CNNMoney: Stocks slip at openupdated: Fri Dec 10 2004 09:21:00
Stocks slipped Friday morning, with investors taking some profits on higher oil prices and a surprisingly strong read on wholesale prices, a key inflation measure.
World leaders and Palestinian representatives gathered in Cairo Friday morning for Yasser Arafat's military funeral service.
The following is a list of world leaders and representatives that CNN has confirmed will attend Yasser Arafat's funeral in Cairo, Egypt:
World leaders are gathering in Egypt for Yasser Arafat's funeral on Friday, a day after the Palestinian leader died of a lengthy and unknown illness at a Paris hospital.
World leaders and representatives will gather in Cairo, Egypt Friday morning for the funeral of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who died early Thursday in Paris.
Preparations were under way in Ramallah on Wednesday for the burial of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, who is gravely ill in a Paris hospital.
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat still was clinging to life late Wednesday, a Muslim cleric said, as Palestinian leaders made burial plans.
Embroidery lies behind a very peaceful revolution in the very traditional Egyptian oasis of Siwa.
After meeting with Egyptian leaders in Cairo, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell affirmed the nations will work together to address Sudan's humanitarian crisis, Mideast peace and security in Iraq.
Arab League Secretary-General Amr Moussa is expected to tour Arab capitals in the days ahead to discuss plans for a summit in the wake of the cancellation of a meeting that was to begin Monday in Tunisia.
A list of some of the major train disasters since 1900:
A French admiral says the flight data recorder from a charter jet that crashed last weekend is believed to be located deeper than searchers can dive.
A robotic submarine from the French navy is scouring the waters of the Red Sea, looking for debris and bodies at the site of a weekend charter plane crash that killed 148 people.
Flash Airlines, which operated a chartered Boeing 737 that crashed in the Red Sea off Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, was banned by Switzerland in 2002 over technical worries, the country's office of aviation said Sunday.
Officials said they expected to find no survivors among the 148 people who were aboard a charter plane that crashed Saturday in the deep waters of the Red Sea off the Egyptian resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
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