FDI will fail to reach targeted $10 billion
CAIRO: The hope for $10 billion in foreign direct investment, one of Egypt's most important contributors of foreign currency and source of capital for increased production capacity and job growth,…
Ensler's 'Emotional Creature' is an emotional read
I Am an Emotional Creature: The Secret Life of Girls Around the World (Villard, 176 pages, $20), by Eve Ensler: Anyone familiar with the work of activist-writer Eve Ensler knows…
DR Congo orchestra brings Mozart to heart of Africa
In Kinshasa, home of the swaying Congolese rumba, 200 people at a local church have succeeded in creating a concert hall orchestra to bring Handel, Beethoven and Mozart to the…
Berlin fest honors Polanski, Turkey's 'Honey'
The 60th Berlin Film Festival wrapped up Sunday after crowning Roman Polanski best director, although the filmmaker who is under house arrest in Switzerland over a 1977 sex case missed…
US to return 3,000-year-old coffin to Egypt
CAIRO: US authorities will return to Egypt an ornately painted Pharaonic coffin smuggled out of the country more than 125 years ago, Egyptian Culture Minister Farouk Hosni said on Monday.The…
Europe, the missing key to Mideast peace
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Florida: The latest American Middle East peace initiative has been launched in the absence of change in the attitudes of the protagonists or in the political landscape.…
The big bank fix
LONDON: Two alternative approaches dominate current discussions about banking reform: break-up and regulation. The debate goes back to the early days of US President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal, which…
The phony attack on climate science
NEW YORK: In the weeks before and after the Copenhagen climate change conference last December, the science of climate change came under harsh attack by critics who contend that climate…
Statehood soon, freedom of association sooner
JERUSALEM/CAIRO:Years ago the Israeli government told Rami he couldn't travel outside his West Bank town of Ramallah, where he had no work. He then fled to Jerusalem to work at…
