An atypical art venue in Hotel Kempinski
Egyptians can't seem to get enough of the Jan. 25 Revolution. However, the approach adopted to support it can sometimes be a bit naive: many believe that to be a…
Egypt’s second grassroots resurgence
By Yossef Ben-Meir The Egyptian people must still yet overturn an overbearing force that has marginalized them for generations: top-down government control of budgets and local development. Egypt’s central government administration…
Following vigil, SCAF orders investigation into army shooting of engineer
CAIRO: Head of the Supreme Council for Armed Force (SCAF), Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, ordered an investigation into the killing of Ramy Fakhry, an electrical engineer who was shot at…
The IMF after Strauss-Kahn
By Harold James PRINCETON: How the mighty International Monetary Fund has fallen. More than a decade ago, the French magazine Paris Match carried a picture of the Fund’s then Managing Director,…
France’s judicial revolution
By Raphaël Hadas-Lebel PARIS: A new and important acronym has entered the French political lexicon: QPC, which stands for the rather austere-sounding “Priority preliminary ruling on the question of constitutionality.” Under…
Finkelstein preaches to the choir at AUC
By Sarah Grebowski Norman Finkelstein knows his audience, as he revealed Monday night in his lecture at the American University in Cairo. His comments on Israel's sense of rationality dripped with…
Court refuses to consider rendition case
By AFP WASHINGTON: US Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal Monday by five former detainees claiming a flight-planning firm had helped arrange for the CIA to send them to…
African football leaders urge backing for Blatter
CAIRO: Sepp Blatter won more support on Monday as the Confederation of African Football advised its members to back the FIFA president in his re-election bid. However, the African endorsement…
Wife of Mubarak released, still faces probe
CAIRO: The wife of Egypt's ousted president was released from detention on Tuesday after giving up assets but is still being investigated, said an official leading a probe into…
Egypt bank NBD posts Q1 loss of $28.9 mln
CAIRO: Egypt's National Bank for Development (NBD) posted a net loss of LE 171.5 million ($28.87 million) for the first quarter of 2011, the stock exchange said on Tuesday. The…