Orascom Telecom says Algerian tax appeal rejected
CAIRO: Algerian authorities have rejected Orascom Telecom s appeal against claims its Djezzy unit owed back taxes and penalties from 2004 to 2007, the Egyptian mobile operator said on Sunday.…
Iraqi PM Maliki emerges as front-runner after Iraq vote
BAGHDAD: Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, the Shia leader who helped ease Iraq s deadly sectarian conflict, emerged Monday as a front-runner after an election seen as a test of the…
Public statements on Mubarak's health fail to allay worries
CAIRO: Rare public statements on the state of the Egyptian president's health will do little to answer questions on the country's political future ahead of presidential elections next year, analysts…
Biden wading in ME peace process and talks on Iran
CAIRO: US Vice-President Joe Biden began a five-day tour of the Middle East yesterday to push for Palestinian-Israeli peace talks but a proposed visit to Egypt was postponed due to…
What Greece is telling us about Europe
The size and scale of the protests in Greece were hard to ignore. Athenians filled Constitution Square in the heart of the capital protesting the austerity measures being put forward…
Egypt's attraction from an institutional investor perspective
CAIRO: "This is the most interesting stock market in the region, Vera Trojan, senior vice president, partner, and equity portfolio manager for Wellington Management Company, said Sunday"We are impressed with…
'Hurt Locker' earns best-picture Academy Award
Iraq War drama "The Hurt Locker won best picture and five other prizes Sunday at the Academy Awards, its haul including best director for Kathryn Bigelow.Bigelow is the first woman…
Can Muslim and Jewish narratives co-exist?
JERUSALEM: In his book, "Longitudes & Attitudes (2002), journalist Thomas Friedman, citing Middle East expert Stephen P. Cohen, suggests that the true clash in today s world is not between…
Renewing Europe's security dialogue
ATHENS: The year 2009 has been one of great change, taking place amidst even greater uncertainty. Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the resilience of the post-Cold…
The dangers of deficit reduction
NEW YORK: A wave of fiscal austerity is rushing over Europe and America. The magnitude of budget deficits - like the magnitude of the downturn - has taken many by…