PA to discuss organ transplant law next week
CAIRO: The People's Assembly (PA) said it will start discussing the draft organ transplant law next week.This comes just a few weeks before the end of the current parliamentary session.According…
Merkel praises Obama's 'historic' Europe trip
BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel praised on Thursday the special historical significance of US President Barack Obama s trip this week to Europe, just ahead of his arrival in Germany.Obama was…
Obama speech elicits broad response
CAIRO: US President Barack Obama made his long-awaited address to the Muslim world from the podium of Cairo University Thursday, triggering a standing ovation and chants of his name as…
Orascom Telecom won't give up in Mobinil row, says paper
CAIRO: Regional Arab telecoms operator Orascom Telecom (OT) will not give up its stake in Mobinil without exhausting all legal avenues, its chairman was quoted as saying in a newspaper…
Court rules against Egypt for violating Italian investment treaty
CAIRO: An international arbitration court ruled this week against the Egyptian government in a dispute that dates back to 1996.The court said that the Egyptian government had violated the terms…
Egypt takes steps to ensure wheat supply
CAIRO: A 200-hectare farm project in Uganda will provide Egypt with wheat supplies as per a new agreement between the two governments. According to the terms of the agreement, Egypt…
Lost in an open 'Transit'
Townhouse Gallery is hosting "Transit 1, the first of a series of exhibitions that pair Neopolitan artists with their counterparts in the Middle East and the Mediterranean, allowing each one…
Nia Vardalos back in spotlight after big fat Greek hit
Seven years after being catapulted to fame and fortune with her hit comedy "My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Nia Vardalos makes a long-awaited return to the big screen this month…
Band brings roots reggae to Cairo's elite
I must confess that I arrived at United Nile Reggae (UNR)'s second Cairo Jazz Club performance on Tuesday night curious but clueless about the capital's reggae scene. Reggae, despite its…
Lessons from Tiananmen
NEW YORK: It is a chilling thought that exactly twenty years after the "Tiananmen Massacre few young citizens of the People's Republic of China have much idea of what happened…