2 wheels good in Cannes entry ‘Kid With a Bike’
The latest Cannes Film Festival entry from Belgium's Dardenne brothers is the story of an abandoned boy, his unlikely savior and his beloved bicycle. "The Kid With a Bike" tells…
Fatah, Hamas say Cairo unity talks ‘positive’
CAIRO: Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas on Monday described as "positive" talks in Cairo aimed at hammering out a unity government as agreed under a reconciliation deal, the MENA…
Four sentenced to death for gang rape
CAIRO: A military court on Monday sentenced four men to hang after convicting them of rape, the official MENA news agency reported. The Cairo supreme military court found the four…
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…