Mubadala looks to agree $2.5 billion refinancing: bankers
LONDON: Abu Dhabi government-owned Mubadala Development Company has invited banks to participate in a self-arranged $2.5 billion, three-year club loan to refinance existing debt, banking sources close to the deal…
Vodafone takes another step in corporate social responsibility
CAIRO: Vodafone Egypt Foundation unveiled its new project "A World of Difference at a press conference on Tuesday in Cairo. The project, aimed at encouraging volunteerism in Egypt, will sponsor…
A lighthearted, powerful exploration of gender issues
Occasional imaginative and probing works aside, most critics have grown weary of exhibitions that stick closely to standard gender problems. The reason could perhaps be attributed to the violent attitude…
Mummy of Egypt's monotheist pharaoh to return home
CAIRO: The DNA tests that revealed how the famed boy-king Tutankhamun most likely died solved another of ancient Egypt s enduring mysteries - the fate of controversial Pharaoh Akhenaten s…
Jewish respect and admiration for Muslim religiosity
JERUSALEM: Within Jewish tradition there are sources that express not just a tolerance towards aspects of Muslim religiosity, but a real admiration and positive intellectual and religious respect. It is…
Cars, bombs, and climate change
COPENHAGEN: For the better part of a decade, I have upset many climate activists by pointing out that there are far better ways to stop global warming than trying to…
An indirect route to a Palestinian state?
RAMALLAH: Palestinians and Israelis have different and possibly contradictory expectations from the indirect negotiations that the United States has pushed both sides into beginning.Israel was among the first parties to…
Editorial: Ten steps back
CAIRO: Egyptian society is in the grip of a moral crisis and nothing proves it more than the situation of women. It's always one step forward and ten steps back.As…
World leaders praise Tantawi's legacy
CAIRO: The death of Mohamed Sayed Tantwai, Sunni Islam's top cleric and Grand Imam of Egypt's Al-Azhar University, has sparked an outpouring of condolences from foreign leaders and the foreign…
Siwa's livelihood threatened by too much underground water
SIWA: Raham Osman wants inquiring minds to know that, despite being surrounded on all sides by desert, including the Great Sea of Sand, Siwa Oasis doesn't have a water shortage.…