Before the Arab-Israeli War in 1948, there were around 80,000 Egyptian Jews in the country. Now there are 3, and the youngest, at 70, is worried about what comes next.
More than 10 million people live in Egypt’s capital, but only three of them all older women are Egyptian Jews. At 70, Magda Haroun is the youngest, and the leader of Cairo’s now virtually extinct native Jewish community.
When Queen Elizabeth II took to the throne in February 1952, the British Empire had entered its last days. Though Britain maintained control over vast swathes of the planet and counted hundreds of mil.
Middle-East Arab News and Opinion - Asharq Al-Awsat is the world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, printed simultaneously each day on four continents in 14 cities
The Arab press, and especially the Gulf press, has In the past six months published many homophobic articles, which presented homosexuality as a perversion and a threat to society.