THE REEL ESTATE: Scorsese in Alexandria: a missed opportunity
It was the mother of all cinematic events. Film fans everywhere in the country were stunned to learn that the Bibliotheca Alexandrina is hosting Martin Scorsese, the greatest living American…
Investment strategy after the crisis
MILAN: Investors have been hit hard by the current crisis. Lessons are being learned and investment strategies revised. The central lesson for investors seems to me to be that not…
How Israelis see Obama
WASHINGTON, DC: Perhaps a US president's approval rating among Israeli citizens is somewhat trivial. After all, Barack Obama's re-election will be decided in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania, not in Haifa,…
Editorial: Proud to be Egyptian
CAIRO: I made a vow not to write a word about the dismal events preceding and following the Egypt-Algeria World Cup qualifiers last month. In both countries, the media's frenzied,…
Israeli firm behind world's most advanced traffic information system
Imagine being able to look at your mobile phone and see whether traffic is cruising along or standing still on the road up ahead.The Israeli firm Waze has made this…
UNAIDS concludes year of raising HIV awareness
CAIRO: UNAIDS, The United Nations Joint Program on HIV/AIDS, celebrated the end of Egypt's World AIDS campaign for 2009 by awarding the local partners that contributed to the campaign. Head…
Pope delivers Christmas message after assault
VATICAN CITY: Pope Benedict XVI reappeared in public Friday urging tolerance for migrants in his Christmas message, hours after a woman knocked him to the floor during evening mass in…
Egyptian doctors sentenced in Saudi get pardon
CAIRO: Two Egyptian doctors sentenced to prison and lashes in Saudi Arabia for illegally selling pharmaceuticals have returned home after being pardoned by the Saudi king, the state news agency…
H1N1 vaccine available next week, says health minister
CAIRO: Egypt's Minister of Health Hatem El-Gabali, has announced that starting this week the swine flu vaccine will be available at the ministry's vaccination centers in Cairo and Alexandria for…
'Rapidly fatal' swine flu kills in different ways, says study
WASHINGTON: People who die of swine flu contract a "rapidly fatal form of the disease and tend to die of lung injury, although it strikes different people in different ways,…
