In a void: international aid and Palestine
JERUSALEM: Aid workers are supposed to be the good guys in international relations. Their work is steeped in ethics. They try to do what s good for people, or at…
Heeding the lessons of another war
BOSTON, MASSACHSUETTS/LONDON: Forty years ago, the United States began to mount raids into Cambodia and to undermine the government of King Sihanouk in order to cut Vietcong supply lines.As a…
The Indian Exception
NEW DELHI: The ratification by the United States Congress of the historic India-US Nuclear Agreement marks a remarkable new development in world affairs. Initially signed in July 2005, the agreement…
IN FOCUS: Silent revolution within the Brotherhood
A year ago, I wrote about the phenomenon of the Brotherhood bloggers and predicted then that bloggers would represent a real problem to the group unless it dealt with them…
THE REEL ESTATE: Not another teen movie
Kobolat Masrooka (Stolen Kisses), the latest teen drama from director Khaled El Hagar, arrives in theaters with a buzz surrounding the "steamy love scenes and the 105 kisses featured in…
Egypt's new economic courts breed both confidence and ire
CAIRO: A set of new courts, which opened on Oct. 1 after more than three years of planning, have taken on economic cases formerly handled by the traditional judiciary, said…
Glaxo expands in Egypt with $210 mln acquisition
LONDON: GlaxoSmithKline Plc is buying the Egyptian mature products business of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co for $210 million, to extend the British drug company's recent expansion into emerging markets. The deal…
Egypt must prop exports amid financial crisis, says Rachid
CAIRO: Since the ripple effects of the US credit crunch began making their way towards the region, Egyptian officials have enacted a number of strategies to reduce the impact of…
Marketing tactics of Obama's presidential campaign
CAIRO: Change we can believe in? It's the slogan that might just make Barack Obama America's 44th president, but the American Chamber of Commerce is hoping that it will inspire…
Bush administration gave nod for CIA waterboarding: report
WASHINGTON: The administration of US President George W. Bush authorized the CIA to waterboard Al-Qaeda suspects according to two secret memos issued in 2003 and 2004, the Washington Post reported…
