Hotel occupancy rates up across Egypt
CAIRO: Hotels across Egypt saw more guests last quarter, tourism minister Zoheir Garranah confirmed over the weekend. Hotel occupancy rates in Cairo reached 78 percent, 69 percent in Alexandria and…
Two Seas Canal threatens Red Sea environment, says SCA chief
ISMAILIA: The new Two Seas Canal project, whose feasibility study is currently underway, will pose a fatal threat to the environment in the Red Sea, said Ahmed Ali Fadel, chairman…
Egypt highly susceptible to cyber attacks, says report
CAIRO: Egypt is, in a lot of ways, a regional leader - economically, politically, culturally. The largest country in the Middle East is also first among its peers for something…
Bregenz Festival opens with visually stunning 'Aida'
There can t be many operatic stages more spectacular than Bregenz s outdoor Lake Stage, built on Lake Constance with its stunning mountain vistas and beautiful gold and purple sunsets.But…
On Hazem Shaheen's 'missing things'
Head bowed and eyes closed in concentration, Hazem Shaheen - front-man of the highly popular folk group Eskenderllah - carried a look of humble preoccupation as he strummed his oud…
Learning each other's historical narrative
HAMBURG: Sami Adwan was born in 1954 in a village near Hebron on the West Bank. He spent his childhood under Israeli occupation, and for a long time thought of…
The ghost of appeasement
PRAGUE: One of the fundamental pillars of Europe's political architecture is a strong and enduring belief in the universal validity of equal, universal, and inalienable human rights. At the core…
Concentration camps and comic books
NEW YORK: When I was 20 years old I boarded a train for Auschwitz. The year was 1992. Courtesy of 10 years at a predominantly Jewish summer camp in the…
Legal specialists appeal to President Mubarak
CAIRO: A delegation representing the Ministry of Justice's legal specialists met with officials from the presidential office Saturday to present their five demands to President Hosni Mubarak as their sit-in…
Typhoid cases reach 60 in Egypt
CAIRO: Since last Friday, the Egyptian Ministry of Health detected an increase in the number of cases of typhoid which have reach 60 from 34 last Tuesday.On Tuesday the Ministry…