Europe’s Banks, Europe’s crisis
BRUSSELS: Europe continues to constitute the epicenter of Act II of the global financial crisis, which has now mutated into a sovereign-debt crisis within the eurozone. How could this happen…
How inequality fueled the crisis
CHICAGO: Before the recent financial crisis, politicians on both sides of the aisle in the United States egged on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the giant government-backed mortgage agencies, to…
Crisis on the Nile: an Egyptian view
It was one sole paragraph in one article of a multi-article agreement that triggered a semi-crisis situation among the Nile basin states. Paragraph B, article 14 turned a promise of…
Yahoo signs distribution deal with Rotana
American internet services giant Yahoo has signed a distribution agreement with Saudi media conglomerate Rotana, the largest media company in the Arab world. The deal, one of the…
Secular Copts present own version of unified personal status bill
CAIRO: The Secular Copts group presented to the Ministry of Justice last week its version of the unified personal status draft law for non-Muslims, which is currently being prepared by…
Israel PM to discuss peace moves with Mubarak
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday he will head to Egypt this week to update Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on latest developments in talks with the Palestinians.…
Europe court halts extradition to US of radical cleric Hamza
STRASBOURG: The European Court of Human Rights blocked Thursday the extradition from Britain to the United States of radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza Al-Masri and three other men facing terror…
Football, silent film style, comforts German fans
A church in Berlin has hosted football fans of all stripes during this World Cup, and Germans took comfort in the lilting strains of organ music during their devastating defeat…
THE REEL ESTATE: Tears of Egyptian maidens
At one point while I was growing up, our household turned into the arranged marriages headquarters; a neutral point where potential couples could meet, under the supervision of a guardian,…
Domestic violence probe at Mel Gibson home
Officials in Malibu said Thursday they were investigating a case of alleged domestic violence at the home of actor-director Mel Gibson and his Russian born girlfriend. The probe follows recent…