From AFP…
Even as Egypt gears up to play host to another international conference on Iraq, its role in the region is looking ceremonial and toothless compared to the successes of Saudi Arabia.
Analysts argue that diplomatic endeavors to solve the crises in Sudan, Lebanon, Iraq, and the Palestinian territories have exposed the decline of Egypt as [...]

From the BBC…
A Saudi man held in US custody for five years has told a military hearing he was tortured into confessing a role in the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000.
Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, 41, said he had faced years of torture after his arrest in 2002, a Pentagon transcript from the closed-door hearing [...]

Click on Fathi Abul Ezz’s cartoon below to read the report…

Joseph Samaha writes on the political impotency of Egypt and Saudi Arabia…

The talented AP photographer Amr Nabil is having a photo exhibition tomorrow Saturday, 9pm, at Sawy’s Cultural Wheel in Zamalek.

Amr will be showing his pix of Hajj rituals in Mecca and Medina.

If you are around, hope you can make it. The exhibition is on till 30 October.

This is just unbelievable… I don’t know if I should laugh or cry. In the age of satellites, telescopes and spaceships, they still mistake this shit! I can’t believe it!
Here’s an article from Al-Masri Al-Youm, by my friend Ali Zalat
مفاجأة: عشرات الملايين الذين صاموا مع «السعودية» صاموا لرؤية «عطارد» وليس «الهلال»!