Oil jumps towards $79 after China vows flexible yuan
SINGAPORE: Crude prices rose 2.2 percent on Monday to the highest since early May after China vowed to allow a flexible yuan exchange rate, raising expectations of higher petroleum imports…
Mideast light weighed down by supplies
TOKYO: The Middle East crude market expects to be weighed down this week by weakness in light grades despite strong gas oil cracks, but distillate-rich grades in the Asia-Pacific market…
Telecoms Competition in Kuwait
KUWAIT: As the first market in the Gulf to allow competition between private operators, Kuwait 's mobile sector is considered relatively mature and advanced, with high penetration rates and per…
Zamalek's Emad wanted to join 'trophy-less' club
CAIRO: Many players were reluctant to join Zamalek for their trophy-less seasons over the past six years, but the chronic title drought was the reason why Emad Mohamed Ridha moved…
Overweight Ramadan frustrated by Ismaili elimination
ISMAILIA: Ismaili dispensed with defender Ayman Ramadan for being completely out of form but the 31-year-old feels bitter about his elimination. Mark Wotte, who has just taken charge of the…
Celtic, Ahly eye Geddo
ALEXANDRIA: Ittihad are considering offers from Egyptian champions Ahly and Scottish giants Celtic for Mohamed “Geddo” Nagy. The Egypt forward seems to be on his way out of Alexandria as…
Global poll shows Muslims leery of US and Obama
WASHINGTON: Muslims around the globe remain uneasy about the US and are increasingly disenchanted with President Barack Obama, according to a poll that suggests his drive to improve relations with…
The failures of Egyptian agricultural policy
CAIRO: In his recently published book “The crisis of Egypt’s rural society – The end of the fellah?” Habib Ayeb, researcher at the American University in Cairo’s social research center,…
Challenges to civil society in the Arab World
It is a widely held perception that political development in the Arab world has come to a standstill as governments in power are ostensibly not prepared to open up the…
Face-to-face with facebook
NEW YORK: Long ago, when Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was in grade school, I wrote a book (Release 2.1: A Design for Living in the Digital Age) in which I…