Rights activist detained for four days for exposing child marriages
CAIRO: A woman who discussed underage marriage between Egyptian minors and men from the Gulf on an Egyptian satellite TV channel was detained by the police and held for four…
3G: Exploring generational difference in Egyptian women's lives
CAIRO: Since liberalization reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, Egypt has registered a remarkable economic growth rate. According to data compiled by the British economist Angus Maddison, Egypt's GDP grew…
Egypt's fertile Nile Delta falls prey to climate change
ROSETTA: The Nile Delta, Egypt s bread basket since antiquity, is being turned into a salty wasteland by rising seawaters, forcing some farmers off their lands and others to import…
Editorial: Egyptian Football's secret formula
CAIRO: We did it! Egypt beat Algeria 4-0. In this cutthroat African Cup of Nations' semifinal, three of Algeria's players were "dishonorably discharged for doing what they do best: intentionally…
Microfinancing offers more than loans
WASHINGTON, DC: As we set out in the new year, many of us search for ways to bring deeper meaning to our lives. Sometimes that meaning can be found in…
Africa's Diaspora to the rescue
DAKAR: There is something dismally familiar about the tide of news reports concerning Africa's increased suffering - more poverty, malnutrition, civil strife, and death - in the face of the…
THE REEL ESTATE: A call you're urged to miss
Readers of this column probably know that I'm no fan of Egyptian director Khaled Youssef (a.k.a. master of the slums), the most deceptively serious and sensationalist of the nation's top…
'Catcher in the Rye' author JD Salinger dies
JD Salinger, the legendary author, youth hero and fugitive from fame whose The Catcher in the Rye shocked and inspired a world he increasingly shunned, has died. He was 91.Salinger…
Double G in Davos
DAVOS: George Papandreou swept into power in the autumn after the conservative leader threw in the towel and called elections early on a wave of corruption scandals. He inherited a…
Dubai hotels see region's biggest '09 revenue fall: survey
DUBAI: Dubai s hotels saw the sharpest drop in revenues in the Middle East for 2009, hit by the global financial crisis, while hotels in the Lebanese capital Beirut posted…
