UN makes $613 mln appeal for Gaza
DAVOS: The United Nations will launch a $613 million appeal to meet the massive needs of those hit by Israel s 22-day war in Gaza, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said…
US envoy calls for durable truce as Gaza violence escalates
RAMALLAH: US envoy George Mitchell called for a durable truce in Gaza on Thursday as spiraling violence threatened to shatter ceasefires that ended a devastating war in the Hamas-run enclave.…
We caused Doha summit to fail, says Aboul Gheit
CAIRO: Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit admitted that Egypt caused the Doha summit to fail in order "to save Arab unity. In an interview with Orbit satellite television channel Tuesday…
No monopoly in Egypt's steel sector, says ECA
CAIRO: After a two-and-a-half-year investigation into the country's steel market, Egypt's competition watchdog said that local producers have not engaged in any anti-competitive or monopolistic practices. The findings of the…
Davos namedropping
DAVOS: Let me start by saying sorry. There is no way to get through this blog without a dose of shameless namedropping. How else can I tell you what the…
Financial crisis gives retail brokers a boost – relatively
CAIRO: The financial crisis hit Egyptian brokerages hard last year - but some much harder than others. Foreign flight was the story of the year, as investors exited in droves…
Clowns cross borders for creative collaboration
In various locations from Sayeda Zeinab to Helwan, youth are gathering to watch a most peculiar performance - a group of four French and three Egyptian performers, all with red…
A life in flames
English novelist and cultural historian Marina Warner says she has been dealt a "rather weird hand in terms of personal circumstances, a fact that she has put to good use…
Pink suitcases, flowerpots turn heads at book fair
While strolling down the jam-packed avenues of the Cairo International Book Fair, a team of oddly dressed foreign-looking men and women can be seen mingling and talking with the baffled…
Analyzing magic with Booker Prize winner Ben Okri
"Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, English romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once famously said. But what magic do words possess to bestow order to a chaotic world?…