Articles tagged "egypt"

Recent polling shows Americans love their conspiracy theories. They also love cats. This was bound to happen.

What gives a shiny rock that has no real utility--outside of jewelry and limited industrial use--any kind of real world value?

At the end of the day, there's not really anything you can do about it.

Egyptian surgeons who have for years trained their hands on sedated goats are getting more human-like replacements, compliments of PETA.

Backed by "Pure Net," a Salafist Muslim grassroots organization, conservative Egyptian public-prosecutor Abdel-Meguid Mahmoud has decided it's time to finally "enforce":http://transitions.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/11/12/egypts_ominous_attack_on_po…

At least three major companies—the Dutch oil giant Shell, the American oil and gas corporation Apache, and the United Arab Emirates-based Dana Gas—have launched major hydraulic fracturing operations in Egypt.

Amateurish films funded by religious fundamentalists aren’t uncommon. But translate them into the language of other religious fundamentalists, and you can spark a hell-storm of murderous fury. Yesterday a chanting crowd of approximately 2,000 Egyp…

FinFisher is a powerful piece of spyware long admired within cybersecurity circles. It’s capable of logging keystrokes, accessing and exporting a compromised computer’s files, and intercepting encrypted data such as Skype calls.

The recent web pornography ban in Egypt has raised questions about the evils of censorship (and porn) and the changing tide of popular attitude of Egyptians. It perhaps reflects the emerging influence of more conservative Muslim elements in governmen…

They're tools for the amateur spy, the would-be dictator toppler, or the determined porn hunter—and they're funded by the U.S. government. It's a new generation of freedom promotion, ushered in with fanfare to succeed or replace the creaking Voice of…

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He refuses to go long after others have given up, has barricaded himself in his HQ, commands a collapsing personality cult mostly via television, and taunts his critics like an abusive dad--is Zahi Hawass the Qadaffi of near-eastern antiquity?

h5. Above: photos from Wangfujing, Feb. 20, 2010, by 明睿. Yeah, the Twitter revolution is up for debate, but the "Jasmine Revolution" is really on shaky ontological ground. Or maybe not. A large number of silent protesters may or may not have…

By now, perceptive news watchers know that Cairo’s Tahrir Square is not in the least square—it’s a traffic circle. Now attention has turned to Bahrain’s increasingly ecumenical revolt against its ruler, Hamad ibn Isa Al Khalifa (a mere emir before pr…

King Tutankhamun's tomb was discovered 87 years ago today in Thebes, Egypt, by English archaeologist Howard Carter. In a country whose antiquities had for centuries been the target of theft, it was a 3000-year-old gold mine - full of golden shrines,