INTERVIEW: McDonald's Alaa Fathy on making fast food in Egypt
CAIRO: Across the Atlantic, fast food companies - or, in the industry's preferred jargon, "quick service restaurants - have been among the few to find an upside to the global…
Euromoney insurance conference sheds light on budding industry
CAIRO: Members of the Egyptian government and business community will gather today for the first ever Euromoney Egypt Insurance Conference, to be held at the Four Seasons in Garden City.Euromoney…
Japanese flick hits on global unemployment woes
Tokyo Sonata is set in Japan's capital and brim-full of the city's culture, but director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's tale of unemployed misery has also captured the zeitgeist of the US economic…
Documentary provides cinematographic take on Egypt's past
Despite unseasonably cold weather and horrendous traffic caused by an accident on the Sixth of October bridge, last week found the Cairo Opera House's Artistic Creativity Center auditorium packed with…
US-Iranian engagement: when and how?
CHICAGO, Illinois: On Nowruz, the day when Iranians celebrate the coming of spring and the new Iranian calendar year, US President Barack Obama took the helm of American foreign policy…
The EU's hour, or Europe's darkest hour?
COPENHAGEN: So far, Europe's leaders seem to be mostly preoccupied with finding national answers to the global economic crisis. In particular, the leaders of "Old Europe have been reluctant to…
Arabesque: more than a festival
WASHINGTON, DC: For three weeks in Washington, DC, tens of thousands of Americans visited the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for the Arabesque Festival and experienced the richness of…
Astronomers bring the universe to Egypt
CAIRO: The heavens must have been smiling down upon Egyptian astronomy enthusiasts this week with a former NASA astronaut and a distinguished astronomer delivering a series of lectures about the…
AUC says no hidden agenda with US government
CAIRO: The American University in Cairo (AUC) has called a report implying that a hidden agenda exits between the university and the American government "misleading. In its Monday edition, independent…
Education sector administrators continue protest
CAIRO: Education sector administrators will continue their protests in various governorates in Egypt for the third day.Even though today was planned to be the last, protestors said that if their…