Cairo

Move over, Cairo, Beirut and Casablanca. Dubai is on a mission to become one of the Arab world's top centers for art, design, film and fashion - areas traditionally dominated by older Arab cities outside the Gulf.

Six months after donors pledged billions of dollars (euros) for devastated Gaza, most of the money remains blocked, and reconstruction efforts are painfully slow, a coalition of aid groups said April 13.

All religions, beliefs and cultures are intertwined, Turkey?s Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet) head Mehmet Görmez said on April 11, adding with ?regret? that mankind is failing to manage this multiculturalism.

A bomb exploded near a police checkpoint on bridge in an affluent Cairo neighbourhood on April 5, killing an officer, Egyptian police officials said.
      
The bomb had been placed next to the checkpoint on a side of the May 15 bridge located in the neighbourhood of Zamalek, the officials said.
      

By Costas Iordanidis

The United States announced on March 31 it was lifting its hold on the supply of military equipment to Egypt, which was frozen when the military took power in Cairo nearly two years ago.
   

I have to admit that I was a little late in catching up with the tension between Sweden and Saudi Arabia. For latecomers like me, let me summarize the situation.

First let me start by recalling that the Swedish government announced a ?feminist? foreign policy when it took office in September.

Could there be that much of a difference between how developments of this "Greater Middle Eastern Area" are perceived in Ankara, Cairo or Kuwait? Listening in a Kuwait hotel room to a political analyst on a Saudi news channel reporting live on the Cairo meeting of the Arab League, the difference of perception was crystal clear.

?Eat a big mouthful, but don?t make big promises,? a Turkish saying goes. Our ancestors were right, weren?t they?

What were we saying yesterday about Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi? We were saying he was ?a dictator, coup stager and murderer.? We said we would not sit at his table.

Tourism ministry officials from Egypt and Bulgaria and both countries' ambassadors are due to hold a conference on promoting bilateral tourism cooperation from Wednesday to Friday in Egypt's capital Cairo.