Bisco Misr has ‘sweet’ plans for Egypt
CAIRO: Visiting the headquarters of Bisco Misr in Cairo is a bit like being Charlie in the Chocolate Factory. Established in 1957 as the Egyptian Company for Foods, Bisco Misr…
Oil drops after Osama bin Laden death
LONDON: Oil prices fell more than 3 percent on Monday after US forces killed Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden following a decade of military operations across central Asia and the…
Egypt pulled up by banks, eyes on telecom
CAIRO: Egypt's benchmark share index gained 1 percent, helped by bank stocks such as Commercial International Bank (CIB) that are seen as havens against jitters in the market about any…
Syndicate approves decision to hold doctors’ strike
CAIRO: Doctors ended their overnight sit-in at the Doctors’ Syndicate Monday after the general assembly's decision to hold a strike on May 10 and another open strike on May 17…
Mayday Mayday: where’s the Zakat?
By Philip Whitfield Although May Day began as a commemoration of stonemasons in Australia, the idea spread after the 1886 Haymarket massacre in Chicago. Police opened fire on a peaceful workers’…
A bomb in every reactor
By Joschka Fischer BERLIN: Twenty-five years after the nuclear disaster at Chernobyl, the ongoing catastrophe at the Fukushima nuclear reactor in Japan has — it must be hoped — made clear…
Sleepwalking through America’s unemployment crisis
By Mohamed El-Erian NEWPORT BEACH: It was relegated to the Q&A session, rather than featured prominently in the opening statement, at last week’s first-ever press conference of US Federal Reserve Board…
Ahmadis and their neighbors at the grassroots level
By Didin Nurul Rosidin CIREBON, Indonesia: The Ahmadis are once again in the front and center of Indonesian media. And yet when it comes to media coverage of the violence directed…
‘Bombay Beach,’ ‘The Guard’ highlight Tribeca
A welcome sense of optimism pervaded the 10th annual Tribeca Film Festival. After several years of gloomy prospects for independent film, filmmakers and audiences seemed buoyed by the hope of…
Stupendous Chekhov adaptation concludes Euro Theater Prize
Every once in a while, a work of art comes along that compels you to reassess your views about a given medium and the possibilities it offers. A prime example…