WORLD
May 20, 2009 | Associated Press
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's grandson died abruptly, the president's office said Tuesday, declining to give a cause of the 12-year-old's sudden death. Mohammed Mubarak passed away Monday after a "health crisis lasting two days," the president's office said in a brief statement. State media reported that he had been flown to Paris for emergency treatment, where he was joined by his grandmother, Egyptian First Lady Suzanne Mubarak.
NEWS
November 19, 2000 | From Associated Press
Ten of the Arab world's first ladies joined activists in an unusual gathering Saturday to push for the improved status of women in their male-dominated societies. Queen Rania of Jordan, Egypt's Suzanne Mubarak and others were using their charisma and influence to campaign in behalf of women at a three-day meeting of female leaders and campaigners for equality of the sexes.
WORLD
May 25, 2011 | By Molly Hennessy-Fiske, Los Angeles Times
Egypt will put Hosni Mubarak, its president for three decades, on trial in connection with the deaths of protesters during the uprising that forced him from office, prosecutors said Tuesday, raising the prospect that the region's push for reform would force a modern Arab strongman to face justice before his own people. Adel Said, a spokesman for Egypt's prosecutor general, said Mubarak could face the death penalty on charges that he conspired in the killings. But the announcement appeared aimed at least in part at appeasing victims' families and blunting a major demonstration planned for Friday.
NEWS
July 5, 2000 | JOHN DANISZEWSKI, TIMES STAFF WRITER
As the United States was celebrating its liberty Tuesday, a prominent Egyptian American scholar was under lock and key in Cairo while police investigated charges related to a documentary he was making about free elections. The unexpected arrest last week of Saad Eddin Ibrahim, a sociologist and one of this country's leading exponents of tolerance toward the Coptic Christian minority, sent a shiver through the ranks of independent civic organizations here.
WORLD
December 16, 2006 | Maggie Farley, Times Staff Writer
When George Clooney realized that most Americans already recognized the significance of his adopted cause -- resolving the conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan -- he decided to take his show on the road. He invited a few other actors and athletes to travel to China and Egypt, two countries that have clout with Sudan's government, to see whether celebrities could do anything that politicians and diplomats couldn't.
ENTERTAINMENT
December 15, 2006 | Tina Daunt, Times Staff Writer
Among the many politicians making the rounds in Hollywood in recent weeks, there is one notable exception: Hillary Rodham Clinton. The senator from New York -- who raised more than $1.2 million from the entertainment industry for her reelection campaign -- hasn't been to town since spring, leaving some supporters wondering if she's trying to distance herself from the West Coast glitterati in preparation for a presidential run. "It's about Sen.