White House: Israeli housing plans dismaying
WASHINGTON: The White House lashed Israel with heavy criticism on Tuesday after the Jerusalem city government moved toward the construction of 900 additional housing units in a Jewish neighborhood in…
Prominent MB member Aboul Fotouh released after 5-month incarceration
CAIRO: Member of the Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) Guidance Office and Secretary General of the Arab Doctors' Union Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh was released by State Security Tuesday after almost five…
QUEST MEANS BUSINESS: Cloudy skies ahead
The decision to hold a G-20 finance ministers meeting on the Scottish coast in the middle of winter was an "interesting idea. When we arrived at St. Andrews there was…
Yahoo and Maktoob: A marriage made online
CAIRO: When Stanford students Jerry Yang and David Filo created a single place to store useful websites in 1994, they had no idea it would turn into a global internet…
Algeria demands millions in taxes from Orascom as company pulls workers
CAIRO: Algerian tax authorities are demanding $596.6 million in outstanding taxes from Egypt's Orascom Telecom only a few days after the company pulled its employees from the country when an…
Iraqi film strikes a chord with Egyptians
Iraq's entry in the Cairo International Film Festival hit the right notes with Egyptian audiences, not for its plot or its script, but due to its employment of elements that…
Faith meets grace in Finnish drama
In 2005, Finnish filmmaker Klaus Härö pulled off what some critics deemed as a surprise Golden Pyramid win for his heartbreaking wartime drama "Mother of Mine. I wouldn't be surprised…
Cairo International Film Festival's recommended movies of the day
The Hedgehog Director: Mona Achache. Starring: Josiane Balasko, Garance Le Guillemic, Togo Igawa and Anne Brochet.Paloma is the daughter of a snobbish mother and a distracted father, both of whom…
The twilight of France's republican aristocracy
PARIS: No tumbrils have appeared in Paris's Place de la Concorde, but a revolution may be underway in France nonetheless. Recent weeks have seen the trial of former Prime Minister…
The one you choose to feed
WASHINGTON, DC: There is a classic Native American story about a grandfather who tells his grandson about the battle between two wolves inside us all - one full of angry,…