ONE ON ONE: Maged Shawky: Egypt's capital market 'ready for innovation'
CAIRO: During this sobering chapter in history of the financial world, Egypt's emerging capital market is moving forward with its plans, readying itself for times of recovery. Coming off a…
OCI, OT help Egypt's benchmark stock index rise
CAIRO: Foreign investors snapped up shares of Orascom Construction Industries (OCI), helping Egypt's benchmark stock index rise 0.72 percent on Monday, traders said. Shares in OCI, Egypt's largest listed builder,…
'Slumdog Millionaire' wins top prize at Oscars indicator
Rags-to-riches drama "Slumdog Millionaire cemented its status as favorite for next month's Oscars here Sunday after winning the top prize at the Screen Actors Guild Awards.The Mumbai-set love story about…
Writing East and West
The United Kingdom has pulled out all the stops to deliver a world-class exhibition as this year's guest of honor at the 41st Cairo International Book Fair. Inside the UK…
Share space, defy the wall
WASHINGTON: Arabs and Jews were separated for decades before the separation wall was built in the West Bank and around Gaza. When former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat traveled to Israel…
Hoping for a nonviolence movement in Palestine
PHILADELPHIA: Since I was a small child, I have been taught that the powerless party always deserves "affirmative action in any unbalanced conflict before a true resolution can be settled.…
Thirty years of "test-tube" babies
MELBOURNE: Louise Brown, the first person to be conceived outside a human body, turned 30 last year. The birth of a "test-tube baby, as the headlines described in vitro fertilization…
INTERVIEW: Relationship between UN and Israel not an easy one, says agency's humanitarian coordinator
CAIRO: The UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes was in Gaza last Friday to assess the extent of required urgent humanitarian aid to the Strip…
New committee to approve sex change operations
CAIRO: Those seeking gender change operations now have to get an approval from a Doctors' Syndicate committee beforehand, Dr Sayed Saied, the syndicate's media spokesperson, told Daily News Egypt.According to…
Egyptian doctors recall Gaza horror stories
CAIRO: Six Egyptian doctors from the Arab Medical Union returning from Gaza shared horror stories from the war-torn Strip s hospitals, directing accusations at Israeli forces for illegally using white…