Lessons learned: Going back to mortgage finance basics
CAIRO: With Egypt's demand for affordable housing growing and a thirst for the development of the mortgage industry, the American Chamber of Commerce hosted an event yesterday to bring the…
Carrey's Scrooge rings in Hollywood holiday spirit
Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money-grubber at the head of the line to separate movie-goers…
Reviving the art of storytelling
During the primeval era, when humans walked nude and anything beyond the borders of man's immediate territory was inconceivable, people didn't know how to read and write. Storytelling was the…
Tragedy in service of reconciliation
TEL AVIV: The face of the conflict in the recent war in Gaza was indeed the face of Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish. His call for help, broadcast live on primetime Israeli…
A new world architecture
NEW YORK: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundamentally different forms of organization:…
More walls to fall
MOSCOW: The German people, and the whole world alongside them, are celebrating a landmark date in history, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not many events…
Verdict in Marwa Al-Sherbini's murder trial due Wednesday
BERLIN: A Russian-born German man who has admitted killing the pregnant Egyptian pharmacist Marwa Al-Sherbini in a frenzied court knife attack, was to learn his fate Wednesday in a case…
Foreign garbage collection companies to remain operational until contract expires
CAIRO: Officials at foreign garbage collection companies operating in Egypt have denied press reports published last week alleging the government's intention to terminate their contracts which end in 2018.An employee…
Communication educators talk convergence at AUC
CAIRO: The role of innovative media in changing the Middle East is the focus of the 14th annual international conference of the Arab-US Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE), which kicked…
Egyptian journalist wins UNICEF award for FGM coverage
CAIRO: Egyptian journalist Abeer Salah El-Din from independent daily Al-Shorouk won the UNICEF award for press coverage of children's rights and behavioral change for her work on Female Genital Mutilation…