Farouk Hosny

CAIRO — An Egyptian airport official says a US writer and translator has been denied entry into the country. The official said Raymond Stock was…

I’m spoiled for choice. Unfortunately. When readers ask, as they surprisingly often do, “How do you get ideas for your columns every week?” it is…

Seemingly, the renovation of old Jewish quarters and Jewish shrines is the latest trend in Arab capitals. In August 2009 restoration work began at…

CAIRO — Egypt's culture minister says he was questioned by prosecutors for three hours over last week's theft of a Vincent van Gogh painting. Farouk…

CAIRO — Police recovered a painting by Vincent van Gogh at Cairo airport Saturday, hours after it was stolen from a museum in the Egyptian capital,…

CAIRO  — A painting by Vincent van Gogh valued at $50 million was stolen from a Cairo museum on Saturday, said the Egyptian minister of culture.…

It was a unique occasion. The small yeshiva where 800 years ago Moses Maimonides, the Rambam, taught his disciples had been restored to its pristine…

After a year-and-a-half of careful restoration work by the Egyptian authorities, the Maimonides Synagogue in Cairo is set to be rededicated on…

After a year-and-a-half of careful restoration work by the Egyptian authorities, the Maimonides Synagogue in Cairo is set to be rededicated on…

The warren of slum alleys is called the Jews' Quarter, but no Jews live there. The ancient synagogue still stands, but its roof is gone. The…

Weeks after defeating Egypt's Culture Minister Farouk Hosni to become director-general of the UN's premier cultural body, UNESCO, Bulgarian diplomat…

Egypt's journalist union is investigating whether to expel a prominent member for meeting with the Israeli ambassador, a case that highlights the…

From the fatwa against Salman Rushdie to the ostracisation of Nonie Darwish, Wafa Sultan, Irshad Manji and many others, it is hard for those in the…

Israel has taken the fight against anti-Semitism to new heights of hypocrisy, leveraging charges of Jew-hatred only when it suits this government's…

Various Israeli officials have privately been talking of late about a "new honeymoon" period between Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Egyptian…

"Farouk Hosni's latest anti-Semitic outburst shows that UNESCO was right not to elect him to the head of an organization that is supposed to combat…

Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni's Tuesday loss in the race for UNESCO's new director-general does not reflect Hosni's personal credentials,…

Israel was quick to congratulate Bulgarian diplomat Irina Bokova on her election Tuesday as the next director-general of the UN's main cultural…

The identity of the top official at the UN's cultural arm remains undecided after the fourth round of voting on Monday ended in a tie between…

A career diplomat from Bulgaria defeated a controversial Egyptian candidate to head the United Nations agency for culture and education, UNESCO…