Egypt drops 25 places in CIP index
CAIRO: Egypt fell 25 points in the Competitive Industrial Performance (CIP) index, according to a UN report. The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) released earlier this week its annual…
THE REEL ESTATE: 'Benjamin Button' in the heart of life
Then Almitra spoke, saying, 'We would ask now of Death.' And he said: You would know the secret of death. But how shall you find it unless you seek it…
With a Grain of Salt: Three greetings
CAIRO: Three cheers to those who are behind the Al-Hussein explosions on Sunday: The first goes to the righteous people of Egypt, who made a wonderful bomb, which was described…
It's not about symmetry; it's about being locked in the same paradigms
JERUSALEM: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. -Albert EinsteinThere is no symmetry or equality in the situation in Israel…
Convoy of kind hearts nears Egypt
Sentimentality isn't really my thing and as a rather hard-bitten and hard-biting political columnist I do have a reputation to maintain. So there was no-one more surprised than me to…
Editorial: Enough conspiracy theories
CAIRO: Earlier this week, like all Egyptians, I was discussing the bomb that went off at Al-Hussein on Sunday in the presence on my young nephew. "So what happened? he…
Record 205 nominations for 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
OSLO: President Barack Obama and his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy are believed to be among a record 205 nominations for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize.The secretive five-member awards committee, which…
Amnesty calls for protection of alleged torture victim
CAIRO: Amnesty International has called for protection for a woman who alleges that she and her family are being subject to a campaign of harassment and intimidation by the police.The…
UNICEF celebrates first media training program
CAIRO: The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Youth Association for Population and Development (YAPD) celebrated Thursday the completion of the media training of the first group of students…
Iraq, interrupted
CAIRO: Haifa Zangana remembers a time before war, sanctions and occupation, when Baghdad was a vibrant Arab capital. In those days, Iraq had a flourishing civil society, an empowered female…