Ezz Steel, developers help lift Egypt
CAIRO: Ezz Steel and real estate developers helped lift Egypt's benchmark index higher in early trade buoyed in part by government comments that some investors took as a signal of…
Food prices on the rise in Egypt
CAIRO: Egyptian consumers are feeling the heat of increasing food prices, which vendors and retailers attribute to rising prices globally. Emad Ahmed, who runs a small grocery store with his…
Lady Gaga hails ‘revolutionaries of love’ at gay parade
Lady Gaga hailed gays on Saturday as the "revolutionaries of love" and called for "full equality now" for same-sex couples around the world in a speech in front of hundreds…
EU marine patrol intercepts migrants off Crete
ATHENS: An EU marine patrol on Saturday intercepted around 100 migrants near the Greek island of Crete as they attempted to sail from Egypt to Italy, the Greek coastguard said.…
US, Chinese stars usher in Shanghai film festival
Susan Sarandon cracked jokes with Chinese actor Zhang Guoli. Matt Dillon tried out his Mandarin and Rupert Murdoch touted the new movie his Chinese-born wife is producing. Hollywood's elite joined…
Security concerns overshadow thanaweya amma anxiety
CAIRO: Egypt’s dreaded thanaweya amma exam season kicked off on Sunday with concerns about the difficulty of the exams taking a backseat to security concerns given the current security vacuum.…
Out of Arabia
By Issandr El Amrani Seen from the Middle East, the American debate on US foreign policy in the region is frequently tiresome, even if it can often have radical consequences on…
India gives
By Shashi Tharoor NEW DELHI: The recent India-Africa summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at which India’s government pledged $5 billion in aid to African countries, drew attention to a largely overlooked…
The voice is Obama’s; the hands are Bush’s
By Joel Beinin US President Barack Obama's June 2009 speech in Cairo was widely received as a sincere expression of his desire for a "new beginning between the United States and…
Complaint against Heikal over 1973 war remarks referred to military prosecution
By Mai Shams El-Din CAIRO: Prosecutor General Abdel Meguid Mahmoud referred a complaint filed against renowned journalist Mohamed Hassanien Heikal to the military prosecution. The complaint was filed by former officers…