ANALYSIS: Premature optimism for Egypt's economy?
CAIRO: Financial services group Credit Suisse voiced unequivocal support for Egypt as not only a strong choice for international investment, but as one of the best choices in the region,…
Cairo University students protest Israeli aggression
CAIRO: Hundreds of students demonstrated Wednesday at Cairo University against Israeli settlement construction in annexed Arab east Jerusalem and the incorporation of two Muslim shrines in the occupied West Bank…
Nobel Peace Prize winner ElBaradei writing memoir
NEW YORK: Nobel Peace Prize winner Mohamed ElBaradei is writing a memoir about his years as head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, including the search for weapons of mass…
Anxiety on succession in Egypt as Mubarak recovers
CAIRO: Ten days after Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak underwent surgery in Germany, there is growing uncertainty over his state of health and increased talk about who will eventually succeed him.On…
West Bank street named for dead US activist
RAMALLAH, West Bank: Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday named a street after a US activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer…
Sewedy bullish on wind inv, considers solar
AIN SOKHNA: Egypt s El Sewedy Cables is looking into supplying wind energy projects in Egypt, the Middle East and African markets to tap growing demand and suitable climates,…
Egypt wind farm tender round two seen by end-2010
CAIRO: Egypt is likely to launch a second tender round just before the end of this year to choose from 10 firms short-listed to build its first private wind farm,…
Wife of Panahi says unable to meet him in Iran jail
The wife of top Iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi told AFP on Tuesday that she has been unable to see her husband in Tehran s notorious Evin prison since his arrest…
