Mubarak taking Gamal on US visit fuels speculation
CAIRO: While the meeting between President Hosni Mubarak and American counterpart Barack Obama slated for Tuesday will focus on Middle East peace, Mubarak's first visit to the US in five…
Security officials release 11 MB members
CAIRO: Security released 11 of the recently detained Muslim Brotherhood members following several release orders from different Cairo courts. Prominent Brotherhood member and chairman of the Arab Doctors' Union, Abdel…
Dana Gas sees Q2 net profit surge
CAIRO: Dana Gas, a United Arab Emirates-based private natural gas company, made a net profit of 392 million dirhams for the second quarter of 2009, up from 34 million dirhams…
Egypt to reclaim 3.4 million feddans to meet food needs: IDSC
CAIRO: The Egyptian government is working on a plan to reclaim 3.4 million feddans of desert land for farming to improve Egypt's food security by 2017, according to Egypt's State…
Suez Canal revenues rise in July
CAIRO: Egypt's Suez Canal Authority posted July numbers that signal a steady rebound for one of the government's primary income sources.Revenue for the canal in July hit $382.9 million, about…
Indian outrage at actor's US airport questioning
Indian newspapers on Sunday railed against the questioning of Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan at a New York airport after the actor suggested he had been singled out because he was…
Daring not to dance in Rawabet dance showcase
After two years of continuous training with a number of leading Egyptian and international dancers and choreographers, the Cairo Contemporary Dance Workshop Program presented the resulting project, "Open Doors, performed…
Why America Will Lead the "Asian Century"
SINGAPORE: Not a week passes, it seems, without a big-picture thinker releasing a big-picture book or giving a big-picture sermon describing the gradual eclipse of American hegemony in Asia. True,…
Make room for Hamas in the peace process
WASHINGTON, DC: Any meaningful Israeli-Palestinian peace effort cannot exclude or ignore Hamas. If the process is to have a chance of achieving a meaningful conclusion, Hamas must be brought in,…
Dealing with overt and covert racism
JERUSALEM: Jewish-Arab relations in Israel are fraught with tension, and racism is part of it whether we admit it or not. Racial tension is not a product of the conflict…