Links of Interest: Santa Claus is Coming.
What better way to meet up with Santa Claus than pay a visit to www.northpole.com? Young visitors to this cute, cozy, and Christmassy spot can look forward to Santa's personalized…
Capturing life with flair
At a time when Egyptian talent and interest in photography is increasing, the work of Toufic Araman has garnered exceptional attention. In less than four years, Araman has learned not…
Mobinil confident of further growth
CAIRO: MobiNil, Egypt s largest mobile phone operator by subscribers, said it would continue to experience robust growth despite the global economic crisis."Our third quarter results beat expectations, and we…
Confessions of a (M)ad Man: Can I have my ball back, please?
This morning, I woke up and discovered that I'd been castrated. I have no idea when this happened. Could have happened last night or last year. I don't even discount…
Weekly Stock Review: Moving between red and green, Egypt stocks make slight improvement
CAIRO: The stock market zigzagged throughout the week to post a mix of green and red, mirroring performance of regional and global markets.Overall, Egypt's benchmark CASE30 index inched up a…
CIFF: A series of unfortunate events
Earlier this year, while flipping through the February edition of Sight & Sound, one of the most prestigious film publications in the world, I came across an article entitled "Sitting…
Thailand Turns Banana Republic
BANGKOK: "Thailand's future is up for grabs, proclaimed the eminent Thai scholar Thitinan Pongsudhirak just before the country's Constitutional Court ruled, in effect, that the ruling People Power Party (PPP)…
The Human Face of Climate Change
A clever new gadget was described in a newspaper a few weeks ago. It pulls water out of the atmosphere and delivers you a glass of clean, chilled H2O. It's…
With a Grain of Salt: Off with who's tongue?
I traveled to Canada to attend the Montreal International Book Fair, leaving behind our venerable press busy with the killing of a Lebanese singer, but when I came back one…
Editorial: Murder in Egypt's suburbia
CAIRO: Do we ever really get to know the truth when heinous crimes that defy any semblance of logic are committed in Egypt?I'm not a conspiracy theorist and don't have…