INTERVIEW: Australia seen as natural fit for Islamic finance
SYDNEY: Australia s wealth of natural resources and financial landscape provide a natural platform for Islamic finance, with potential to attract a new type of global investors, an official with…
Egypt digs at Gaza border amid report of smuggling barrier
RAFAH: Egyptian engineers were carrying out major excavation work at the Gaza border on Wednesday as an Israeli daily reported that an anti-smuggling barrier was under construction, an AFP reporter…
Egypt to host Darfur conference next year
CAIRO: Egypt has announced its intention to host a conference for the reconstruction and development of Darfur within the first three months of 2010.Director of the Sudan Affairs department at…
Israel mulling security fence on Egypt border to halt migration
CAIRO: Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu is mulling the construction of a security fence along the border with Egypt to halt smuggling and attempts by African migrants to enter Israel.The…
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.…