Gouna target Ekrami
CAIRO: Newly-promoted Premier League club Gouna have opened talks with Sherif Ekrami to sign him in the close season, a source close to the Egyptian keeper said on Friday. Ekrami…
Ahly progress not guaranteed, says Al-Badri
CAIRO: Ahly s progress to the Confederation Cup group stage is not guaranteed yet despite a comfortable first-leg advantage over Santos, assistant coach Hossam Al-Badri said.The Red Devils, who played…
How Geoffrey Rush wooed Susan Sarandon to Broadway
Geoffrey Rush has a soft spot for Susan Sarandon. It s understandable, seeing how they first met. She handed me my Oscar, Rush says.That was back in 1997, when Rush…
Gay Moroccan writer takes on homophobia
A soft-spoken slip of a young man, Abdellah Taia hardly looks the part of an iconoclast. But as Morocco s first high-profile, openly gay man, Taia has made it his…
Conde Nast Traveler: Guidebook beat smartphones
Conde Nast Traveler magazine sent three reporters to Moscow, one armed with ann iPhone, one with a BlackBerry Bold and one with an old-fashioned guidebook, to see whether the gadgets…
News in brief
Egypt to establish $1.1 billion industrial zonesEgypt s Minister of Trade and Industry, Rachid Mohamed Rachid said that the country s Industrial Development Authority will offer 10 million square meters…
Abbas in Cairo for talks with Mubarak
CAIRO: Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas arrived in Cairo on Friday on a two-day visit for talks with Egypt s President Hosni Mubarak, the official MENA news agency reported. Abbas is…
Egyptian police kill Bedouin man in Sinai
RAFAH: An Egyptian security official says police opened fire on two vehicles that shot at a major security checkpoint in northern Sinai, killing one of the attackers.The official says the…