Army steps in to end sectarian clashes in Saft El-Laban
By Essam Fadl CAIRO: Army and police forces intervened late on Sunday to end sectarian clashes between Muslims and Copts in Saft El-Laban, Giza, arresting 10 people from both sides after…
GlaxoSmithKline to invest LE 500 mln in Egypt healthcare
CAIRO: GlaxoSmithKline Consumer Healthcare (GSK CH) announced Sunday they will invest approximately LE 500 million in Egypt’s healthcare sector. “Our main goal over the next five years is to focus…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…