Egyptian-German initiative to increase energy efficiency in local industry

CAIRO: Egypt and Germany signed an MOU to launch an initiative allowing Egypt to benefit from the German experience in industrial energy management and efficiency. The MOU, titled "Energy Management…

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Land owners complain of squatters, lack of security

CAIRO: Egyptian Peter Nashaat Matta said a 290-acre piece of agricultural land he owned on the Cairo-Alexandria desert road was taken over by thugs in an act of illegal land…

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Steve Jobs authorized biography coming in 2012

Apple CEO Steve Jobs has finally agreed to participate in a book about his life. Simon & Schuster announced Sunday that Walter Isaacson's "iSteve: The Book of Jobs" will be…

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Tributes pour in for film-making great Lumet

Woody Allen and Martin Scorsese led the tributes as the film world mourned Sunday the loss of director Sidney Lumet, a master film-maker identified strongly with his beloved New York.…

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Local graphic arts magazine launches second issue

Graphic arts enthusiasts flocked to the French Cultural Center in Mounira on Sunday evening to celebrate the launch of the second issue of TokTok, Egypt’s breakout graphic arts magazine. The…

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America’s Arab comeback

By Daoud Kuttab AMMAN: Without much fanfare, the past few months have seen no anti-American demonstrations and no burning of American flags across the Arab world. Arabs seem increasingly willing to…

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Why Gender Equality?

By Maha Ghalwash Egyptian activists celebrated International Women’s Day (8 March) by organizing a million-person-march. These activists, some of whom were men, called for gender equality in the new Egypt. They…

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Three paths for indebted democracies

By Raghuram Rajan CHICAGO: Democratic governments are not incentivized to take decisions that have short-term costs but produce long-term gains, the typical pattern for any investment. Indeed, in order to make…

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War, Debt, and Democracy

By John Ferejohn and Frances Rosenbluth NEW YORK: As the United States takes up the decision to lift its self-imposed debt ceiling, we would do well to remember why America’s public…

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Saleh accepts GCC plan, opposition rejects

SANAA: Yemen's President Ali Abdullah Saleh has welcomed a Gulf Arab mediation plan that would see him hand power to his vice-president and create a new opposition-led government, a statement…

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