<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - Post</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><description>Post</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[For Some, Seder Passes Over Home Cooking]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10612-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A10612-2005Apr22.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The matzoh balls float in a peppery poblano broth. The chopped liver comes stuffed in jalapeno peppers. The gefilte fish is fried and served on a squiggle of green sauce. Soft jazz plays in the background.]]></description><author> Petula Dvorak</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Israelis Kill 3 Teenagers In Gaza Strip]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40505-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40505-2005Apr9.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Three Palestinian teenagers were shot and killed by Israeli soldiers Saturday in the southern Gaza Strip, and Palestinian guerrillas responded by firing 25 mortar shells at Jewish settlements in Gaza, threatening to unravel a tenuous, de facto truce in place for more than two months.]]></description><author> John Ward Anderson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice Describes Plans  to Spread Democracy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1911-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1911-2005Mar25.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The secretary of state set out ambitious goals for the Bush administration's push for greater democracy overseas over the next four years in an interview with The Washington Post.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler  and Robin Wright</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Presidential Challenger Charged With Forgery in Egypt]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56472-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56472-2005Mar22.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Egyptian prosecutors charged opposition leader Ayman Nour with falsifying signatures on official papers, advancing a controversial case that has thrown doubt on Egypt's commitment to democratic reform and created tensions with the United States.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Activists Want Mubarak Barred as Candidate]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38297-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38297-2005Mar15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Opposition groups say that President Hosni Mubarak's proposal for multi-candidate elections in Egypt does not ensure a competitive vote and one way to ensure a fair campaign is for Mubarak not to run.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Europeans Investigate CIA Role in Abductions]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30275-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30275-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Authorities are examining whether U.S. agents may have broken local laws by detaining terrorist suspects on European soil and subjecting them to abuse or maltreatment.]]></description><author> Craig Whitlock</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will the Mideast Bloom?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28948-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28948-2005Mar12.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[DUBAI, United Arab Emirates<br> Listen to the conversations in the cafes on the edge of the creek that runs through this Persian Gulf city, and it is hard to believe that the George W. Bush being praised by Arab diners is the same George W. Bush who has been widely excoriated in these parts...]]></description><author> Youssef M. Ibrahim</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egypt Holds Candidate Despite Vow of Reform]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28427-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28427-2005Mar11.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Two weeks after Mubarak announced that Egypt would hold multi-candidate presidential elections, the first politician to say he would run was sitting in jail.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Diplomat Rejects Bush's Views on Mideast]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21599-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A21599-2005Mar9.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit on Wednesday offered a point-by-point rebuttal of President Bush's argument that the Middle East is opening to an era of democracy stimulated by the U.S. invasion of Iraq.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bush Calls Democracy Terror's Antidote]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16510-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16510-2005Mar8.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[President Bush, citing signs of a "hopeful new direction" in the Mideast, pledged U.S. support with nations moving toward democracy.]]></description><author> Jim VandeHei</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Author Challenges Islamic Orthodoxy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12340-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A12340-2005Mar6.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Unorthodox observations by Gamal Banna, an 84-year-old Egyptian author, have created a stir in Egypt recently.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Saudis Tell Syria to Leave Lebanon]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4500-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4500-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Crown Prince Abdullah warned Syria on Thursday that it is at risk of damaging relations with Saudi Arabia if it does not begin removing its troops from Lebanon.]]></description><author> Scott Wilson</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Egyptian Activist's Long Struggle]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5782-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5782-2005Mar3.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   S   aad Eddin Ibrahim , one of Egypt's most prominent activists and human rights crusaders, acknowledges that the Bush administration has had an effect on the talk of democracy in Arab countries.]]></description><author> Nora Boustany</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Egyptian Living in Md. Accused of Smuggling Countrymen Into U.S.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2722-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2722-2005Mar2.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A former driver for Saudi Arabia's embassy in Washington appeared in federal court in Alexandria yesterday on charges that he used fraudulent documents to smuggle Egyptians into the United States from 1999 to 2001.]]></description><author> Allan Lengel</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[State Dept. Study Cites  Torture of Prisoners]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60540-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60540-2005Feb28.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The State Department's annual human rights report released yesterday criticized countries for a range of interrogation practices it labeled as torture, including sleep deprivation for detainees, confining prisoners in contorted positions, stripping and blindfolding them and threatening them with dogs -- methods similar to those approved at times by the Bush administration for use on detainees in U.S. custody.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Mubarak Says He'll Push Multiparty Elections]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56470-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56470-2005Feb26.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that he would ask his country's parliament to change the constitution and permit multiparty popular elections.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Rice's Trip to Egypt Is Postponed]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54613-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54613-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[The secretary of state abruptly postponed a visit to Egypt, reflecting deep displeasure at the jailing of a leading opposition figure, U.S. officials said.]]></description><author> Glenn Kessler</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Return of the Mummy]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38677-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38677-2005Feb19.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Now on display in Europe, King Tut treasures come to Los Angeles, Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and Philadelphia.]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Arab Superheroes Leap Pyramids in a Single Bound]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27727-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A27727-2005Feb15.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[He's a mild-mannered philosophy professor, but beneath the meek and pedantic exterior lies a buff, masked fighter in tights who is endowed with supernatural strength and a mission to "fight evil until the end of time."]]></description><author> Daniel Williams</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sharon, Abbas Pledge End to Attacks]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7102-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7102-2005Feb8.html?nav=rss_world/mideast/neareast/egypt/post</guid><pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2005 4:07:03 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas expressed optimism Tuesday that renewed relations offered a chance to end a four-year cycle of suicide bombings and military assaults.]]></description><author> Molly Moore</author></item></channel></rss>