Shabab await Ahly response on Flavio, Hosni
CAIRO: Shabab chairman Khaled Al-Baltan indicated that the Saudi club is expecting a response from Egyptian champions Ahly on loan offers for both strikers, Flavio Amado and Osama Hosni.Recent Saudi…
Abou-Trika heads to Germany for check-up
CAIRO: Ahly star Mohamed Abou-Trika is set to fly to Germany on Thursday in order to undergo a check-up on his troublesome knee.Ahly said on their official website that the…
Media banned from entering Rafah, say frustrated journalists
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have reportedly banned the media from entering the village of Rafah, citing "safety concerns. The village lies approximately two kilometers away from the Rafah crossing which the…
Israel's online information war
CAIRO: When Israel launched Operation Cast Lead on Gaza, it simultaneously launched a media war in an attempt to justify its offensive.But instead of limiting itself to conventional mainstream media,…
Decoding Egypt: The broken wings of Egypt's propaganda machine
CAIRO: Since the beginning of Israel's war on Gaza, the official Egyptian propaganda machine has been working at full capacity, but what it has produced is a mixture of sheer…
The right to self-defence is not a strategy for peace
WASHINGTON DC: From an Israeli perspective, the cost in international outrage and Palestinian civilian lives of the current attacks on Gaza is worth the price of crushing Hamas's firepower. The…
Deflation and Democracy
PRINCETON: The history of finance is partly the history of a struggle for a stable, secure way to measure value. And, like any quest for certainty in our unpredictable world,…
Maadi's Kotob Khan joins publishing bandwagon
In recent years, Egypt's publishing houses have started to invest in harvesting a new pool of talent to capitalize on the current literary boom.Malamih, for instance, are chiefly catering their…
