La Strada on Wall Street
VIENNA: Apologists for neo-liberalism assume not only that states should be run like companies, but also that, as far as possible, they should not intervene in the economy. The market,…
Good move on bad drugs
The US Food and Drug Administration has just banned 30 drugs from India's giant Ranbaxy Laboratories because of quality fears but the move is long overdue and Ranbaxy continues to…
A Peace of Water
PRAGUE: The global financial crisis may be grabbing all the headlines, but resolving it should not be allowed to crowd out other vital issues. In the Middle East, for example,…
Two faces of different worlds
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg is taking time out on the roof of the Windsor Palace rooftop garden watching fisherman toil in the murky waters of Alexandria's eastern harbor to explain the origins…
Egypt through the eyes of Jemila Yosri
"I love these ducks. We had these in England. They don't like swimming very much; they prefer to stay on land. Jemila Yosri has a particular way of describing the…
Belgian artist discusses challenges of community art
A crowd of 15 gathered last Wednesday in the small library of the Townhouse Gallery to hear "When Tomorrow is Today, a discussion by Lasse Lau, a self-described "queer and…
An evening with Mraya
Last Sunday evening, I headed to the Culture Wheel on a whim with some friends to see Mraya Band. None of us had heard Mraya Band, or even heard of…
Rushdie has no regrets over 'The Satanic Verses,' 20 years on
British author Salman Rushdie has no regrets about writing The Satanic Verses, he said in comments published last week, 20 years after the release of the book which earned him…
Inflation sees slight drop to 21.5 pct
CAIRO: Skyrocketing inflation may be starting to slow, settling at 21.5 percent in the year to September, according to figures released yesterday by Egypt's state-run statistics agency CAPMAS.The 21.5 percent…
