China will have achieved world domination by 2020, says economist
CAIRO: Professor Norbert Walter, chief economist of Deutsche Bank Group, presented "Dawn in the East, Dusk in the West: The End of the End of History for the American Chamber…
Dubai Holding sell-off hits Egypt index, down 3.7 pct
The benchmark Egyptian index suffers a broad sell-off led by declines on market heavyweights including investment bank EFG-Hermes, in which a firm owned by Dubai's ruler sold part of its…
New film revives memories of Mandela's rugby moment
When South Africa won the 1995 rugby World Cup just after apartheid, the new president Nelson Mandela donned a jersey and won over a skeptical white population in a symbol…
New online venue for Arab short films opens
Starting Dec. 9, a whole new venue for Arab independent short films will open up. Unlike the generic platform of YouTube, Arabshorts.net - hosted by Goethe Institute in Cairo -…
Hawass demands Britain returns Rosetta Stone
LONDON: A top Egyptian official pressed Britain Wednesday to return an ancient stone tablet seen as an icon of his country and denied his countrymen were pirates of the Caribbean…
When East meets West through music
At a time when Switzerland's ban on constructing minarets is making headlines, the musicians of the Rumi Ensemble are showing that cultures can converge into something beautiful. On Thursday, Oct.…
"Neo-Ottoman" Turkey?
ANKARA: Nowadays, the international media are obsessed with the question of who "lost Turkey and what that supposed loss means for Europe and the West. More alarmingly, some commentators liken…
Africa's stake in the climate-change debate
MAPUTO, MOZAMBIQUE: Across Africa, there are growing concerns, which the three of us share, that the continent is being marginalized in the major debates leading up to the COP15 climate-change…
Stop the fear-mongering
KEFAR SHEMARYAHU, Israel: Rabbis, public figures, educators, soldiers and politicians (including some ministers) are all great patriots and saints in their own eyes. These people, along with the members of…
Pharmaceutical companies, rights group object to new medicine pricing decree (Part 2)
CAIRO: Ministry of Health decree 373, which quietly came into effect in September, may be the Egyptian government's sternest test yet of the palatability of economic reform it has been…
