Weekly Stock Review: 2008's last week trading slightly up
CAIRO: Egypt's stock market closed out the year on a high note after an influx of foreign investors helped the index breach a key resistance level at 4,500 points.Overall, Egypt's…
Malaysia's AWC unit wins 171 mln dirham UAE contract
KUALA LUMPUR: A unit of Malaysian firm AWC Facilty Solutions has won a contract worth 171 million UAE dirhams ($46.5 million) for designing, supplying and installing a waste collection system,…
Oil trims early loss on year's first trading day
LONDON: The oil market kicked off 2009 feebly on Friday, falling nearly 8 percent before trimming back losses to around 1 percent once the U.S. market opened. US light, sweet…
Album sales plunge, digital downloads up
Music sales have continued to slump in 2008 as the increased number of downloads of digital tracks failed to make up for a plunge in the sale of compact discs.Year-end…
THE REEL ESTATE: Beirut Open City
Since the informal establishment of Lebanese cinema in the early 1930s, few Lebanese films in the entire turbulent history of the country's struggling film industry have managed to garner substantial…
With a Grain of Salt: Merci for your impartiality
CAIRO: I received a phone call from a French TV correspondent asking me to comment on Gaza. A few minutes earlier, I had watched the Israeli Embassy spokeswoman in Paris…
Arab Complicity, Israel's Duplicity
CAIRO: At 11:30 am on Dec. 27 the Israeli air force bombed Palestinian government headquarters and civilian buildings all across the Gaza Strip. Six consecutive days of attacks resulted in…
Editorial: The price of Egypt's silence on Gaza
CAIRO: A 19-year-old Egyptian intern at this newspaper said something, which to me, sums up what's at stake for the future of this country if Egypt continues doing nothing about…
The tale of a former Egyptian child maid in the US
IRVINE, California/CAIRO, Egypt: Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door.They watched through their window as the child rinsed plates…