Marimba beats turn up the heat in Beit Harrawi
Of the few marimba or xylophone musicians in Egypt, Nesma Abdel-Aziz is probably the best known and loved, having played with legends like Omar Khairat and Nasseer Shamma. She later…
A nostalgic evening with Tony Kaldas
At the Heliopolis branch of Diwan bookstore, a small crowd gathered for a musical evening by Egyptian singer Tony Kaldas, an aspiring young vocalist from Greek origins. He studied singing…
IN DEPTH: Car components: Smaller parts feed big business
CAIRO: As anyone who has waded through the jungle of Cairo's rush hour traffic knows, demand for cars has been growing steadily for years. And all good estimates indicate that…
ON WHEELS: Find your flow in Cairo's traffic
CAIRO: Poets and artists may compare road networks to a web of intersecting watercourses: rivers branching off into creeks. Some are serene while others are turbulent. In places like Tokyo…
ONE ON ONE: Car sales zoom past inflation, says Raouf Ghabbour
CAIRO: The Egyptian car market has nowhere to go but up. That's the idea that one of the industry's most powerful players, Raouf Ghabbour, CEO of the dominant Ghabbour Automotive…
BUSINESS BEAT: Demand tops supply in Egypt's growing automotive industry
CAIRO: Suddenly they were everywhere: burnt orange Skoda sedans cruising the streets of Cairo. This sporty new model seemed to have appeared overnight; a common phenomenon in a city with…
El-Khouly steps down after 21 Ghad party members resign
CAIRO: El-Ghad Party president Ehab El-Khouly stepped down Tuesday following the collective resignation of 21 members who said the party was run haphazardly and "according to personal whims. El-Khouly said…
Settlements make Palestinian state impossible: Arab League
CAIRO: Israel s policy of Jewish settlement building on Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank is making a future Palestinian state impossible, Arab League Chief Amr Moussa said on…
Egypt indexes rebound, OCI leads the way
CAIRO: Egypt s benchmark index rebounded on Wednesday after six straight sessions of decline, gaining more than 3 percent as bourses around the world were buoyed by the US government…
Daniel Radcliffe prepares for the Broadway stage
Daniel Radcliffe is talking about Alan Strang, the troubled young man he plays in Equus, the Peter Shaffer drama now being revived on Broadway. The brilliant thing about Alan is…
