Energy companies raise LE 1 million for charity
CAIRO: Thirty-three teams from across the gas and oil industry joined the BG Energy Challenge 2009, raising LE 1 million that will go to fighting poverty in Upper Egypt, the…
Trivial questions, birthday song mar Lucy Liu conference
Being a major Hollywood actress, Lucy Liu must have attended her share of press conferences. But nothing could have prepared her for being serenaded with a happy birthday song by…
Cairo International Film Festival's recommended movies of the day
SATURDAYLetters to Father Jacob Director: Klaus HäröStarring: Kaarina Hazard, ValJukka Keinonen and Heikki NousiainenSurprised at being pardoned 12 years into a life sentence, hard-bitten killer Leila takes the prison warden…
Nabokov's unfinished and unburned novel reappears
Vladimir Nabokov wanted it burned on his death, but The Original of Laura survived and now, 32 years later, the unfinished novel is about to be published for the first…
Enemy-centric approach in Pakistan doesn't work
Washington, DC: During her recent visit to Pakistan, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton emphasized the need to foster a relationship of respect between the United States and Pakistan. Although…
IMF needs fresh thinking on capital controls
CAMBRIDGE: Why does the International Monetary Fund make it so hard for people like me to love it? The IMF has said and done all the right things since the…
Editorial: Justice being served
CAIRO: Football mania, fueled by advertising on a scale I'd never before witnessed in Egypt, has seen nationalistic fever spread faster than swine flu. But amid the heightened expectations of…
A golden 'opportunity': New program preps youth for job market
CAIRO: By next week, Abeer Ismail will have completed a comprehensive sales and marketing course at only 20 years old, thanks to a new employability initiative targeting socially and economically…
Egypt sees first Terry Fox marathon
CAIRO: The Marathon of Hope is coming to Egypt for the first time today. Under the auspice of the Supreme Council of Antiquities and Sound and Light, the Canadian Embassy…
Mediterranean countries agree on women's foundation
MARRAKESH: Ministers of the Union for the Mediterranean agreed Thursday to set up a Foundation of Women for the Mediterranean, for meetings, initiatives and sharing local experience. In a statement…