No end in sight for Abo Fana agreement
CAIRO: The Abo Fana monastery agreement, which should have been signed on Wednesday, has once again been postponed after the Bishop of Mowas monastery, where it was to be signed,…
Back to school: Kefaya calls for strike on first day
CAIRO: The Kefaya movement called on students and teachers to strike today, the first day of the new school year, under the slogan Make the 20th a day for peaceful…
Duweiqa death toll exceeds 100
CAIRO: The death toll of the Duweiqa rockslide crossed the century mark two weeks after massive boulders slid off the edge of Moqattam onto the shantytown below.Reports indicate that 101…
The mother and the family: Can women save Sinai from terror?
CAIRO: Taba in 2004, Sharm El-Sheikh in 2005, and Dahab in 2006; three deadly terrorist attacks rocked the Sinai peninsula in as many years. Suspecting Bedouin involvement, the Egyptian government…
A new provost on a new campus
CAIRO: "I'm proud and honored, said Lisa Anderson, in an interview with Daily News Egypt, on her new position as provost of the American University in Cairo.Taking over from Tim…
Editorial: Egypt and the global economic crisis
What does the bankruptcy of one investment bank at the other end of the world have to do with Egypt? As economic analysts and commentators the world over warn of…
Anatomy of a Crisis
BERKELEY: Getting out of our current financial mess requires understanding how we got into it in the first place. The fundamental cause, according to the likes of John McCain, was…
Japan spins its wheels
OSAKA: To lose one prime minister may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose two in one year looks like carelessness. That paraphrase of Oscar Wilde aptly sums up the…
With a Grain of Salt: A Manual for Managing States
The Jordanian ambassador to Cairo Hany Al-Mulqi spoke to me once about how as the Jordanian foreign minister, he once boarded a flight with then King Hussein who used to…
