WASHINGTON (JTA) — In a meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi mentioned Blinken’s Jewish identity, and made a false and curious claim. “Mr. Secretary, ...
Part history lesson, part requiem, Amir Ramsis’s documentary is a dense, often chilling work that manages, in 95 minutes, to devote equal screen time to an overwhelming number of Egyptian Jews, some ...
Researchers are using a very modern tool to transcribe and read hundreds of thousands of medieval manuscripts from the lost ...
Documentary maker Amir Ramses surveys the history of Egypt’s Jewish community, which played a prominent role in secular society throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries but was almost entirely ...
Only 12 Jews remain in Egypt, the remnant of a community of some 100,000 that lived there until the 1950s, the community’s leader said. “We are dying, we are drowning, we are finished,” Jewish ...
In the past two days, the trailer of a new documentary film, "Jews of Egypt," spread over the Twitter and Facebook social networks with advice that it is a must-watch of 2012. Egyptian director Amr ...
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi said vitriolic comments he made against Jews and Zionists three years ago had been taken out of context, an explanation that fell short of a U.S.
CAIRO (Reuters) - When speaking Arabic, Gabriel Rosenbaum is assiduous about observing the Egyptian variations of the language so alien to many of his fellow Israelis. Three decades into a peace ...