Mubarak holds talks with Saudi king
CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak and Saudi King Abdullah have met in the Red Sea resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh.Tuesday's meeting was the second in three days between the leaders. Mubarak…
House speaker unaware if PA will be dissolved
CAIRO: Speaker of the People's Assembly (PA) Fathi Sorour said Wednesday he did know whether parliament will be dissolved early as speculation continues to mount that the decision will come…
NGO launches scathing report detailing oppression of the judiciary
CAIRO: The Arab Center for the Independence of the Judiciary and the Legal Profession (ACIJLP) presented a report detailing the government's "eight-year oppression of the judiciary.The report which covers the…
Report explores shortcomings of trickle-down effect
CAIRO: The trickle-down effect of Egypt's GDP growth rate over the past four years has been, for the most part, unaccounted for. A new government sponsored report attempted to examine…
Meet rising radio presenter Khaled Matar
Even before finishing his marketing degree at the American University in Cairo, energetic, ambitious and carefree Khaled Matar was already taking Nile FM, Egypt's only English-language radio station, by storm.Matar's…
Decoding Egypt: A Cultural Renaissance?
There is much talk within Cairo s cultural circles of an existing, or imminent, cultural renaissance in Egypt. The increase in the number of new bookstores and new publishers over…
The UN takes charge
NEW YORK: While discussions about economic "green shoots continue unabated in the United States, in many countries, and especially in the developing world, matters are getting worse. The downturn in…
Sowing the seeds of an African agricultural revival
Runaway food prices gave the world a wake-up call last year. Two weeks ago, another alarm went off: UN food agencies reported that the world's hungry have surpassed one billion…
An untold story of tragedy and compassion in Iraq
Thousands of Iraqis are celebrating the redeployment of US troops out of their cities and into military bases throughout the country.But the fireworks fired into the air and the pomp…
Western scholar speaks for 1 billion Muslims
CAIRO: The preeminent Islam scholar of the West summed up his take on dialogue between the West and the Muslim world: "I watch while the house is on fire, and…