Hamza doubtful for Masri game
CAIRO: Zamalek are likely to be without injured striker Gamal Hamza when they visit Masri this week, the Cairo club said on Sunday.Hamza suffered a knee injury in Saturday s…
Decastel reassures Zamalek president
CAIRO: Zamalek chairman Mohamed Amer revealed that head coach Michel Decastel is confident of the White Knights progress. The Cairo side has lost twice so far in the Egyptian Premier…
Police arrest 25 striking truckers
CAIRO: Egyptian police arrested 25 truckers on Sunday as a strike by truck owners entered its third day, a police official said.The truck owners had clashed with police who tried…
Egyptian markets buoyed by local buying, OCI
CAIRO: Egypt s benchmark index gained over 1 percent on Monday, helped by strong local institutional buying and led by steady gains from heavyweight Orascom Construction (OCI). The market upshot…
Egyptian border guard shot, wounded near Israel
AL-ARISH: A security official says an Egyptian border guard has been shot and wounded by suspected human traffickers in an area close to the Israeli border in the Sinai Peninsula.The…
Israeli F-16s bomb tunnels near Rafah border crossing
CAIRO: Israeli F-16s bombed the area on the Egypt-Gaza border Monday near the Rafah border crossing in a further aerial offensive on the purported smuggling tunnels running underneath. The strikes…
Egypt's economy underlined by "delicate balance," says report
CAIRO: Characterized by the wild fluctuation of commodity prices, a financial meltdown and the ongoing conflicts of globalization with economic nationalism, 2008 was a turbulent economic year by any yardstick.…
Crisis takes toll on Suez Canal revenues
CAIRO: Suez Canal revenues fell 20 percent to $332.4 million in January, compared to $414.2 million in the same month last year, according to government figures released Sunday. Revenues were…
Twenty years on, Salman Rushdie still in shadow of fatwa
Salman Rushdie marks the 20th anniversary of his Islamic death sentence this week having long escaped hiding and garlanded with awards and honors, but the fatwa still casts a long…
Interactive theater experiment lost in execution
Egyptian artist Nora Amin is "one of those rare and omnipresent cultural figures that change the thought landscapes of societies, according to one of many internet profiles recounting her impressive…