The joyful predictability of silent "Butterfly"
Scratchy cabaret tunes competing with the incessant chatter of the filmstrip, sepia-toned light casting a parchment-colored glow over angular, art nouveau backdrops, captions flitting below the oriental figures jittering across…
US election Watch
Is it over? With more than two weeks to go before Americans go to the polls on Nov. 4, do we already know the result? Could be. Democrat Barack Obama…
Asian alternatives to the G7 bank bailout
The trillion-dollar commitments made so far by governments, with the exception of Britain's, have been biased toward restoring market confidence instead of healing the core of what ails banks. So…
For foreign students, AUC is not what it used to be
The American University in Cairo's (AUC) recently built campus in New Cairo has provided Egyptian students the ability to have a genuine "American university experience in Egypt. In doing so,…
Nobel Injustice
SINGAPORE: Martti Ahtisaari is a great man. He deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his life work. But it was a mistake for the Norwegian Nobel Committee to cite his…
Hard Talk: Egypt's Haphazard Choice of Ministers
A mix of confusion and indifference was the main characteristic of the Egyptian government s handling of the global financial crisis before Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak s meeting with economic…
Rights groups demand public prosecution clampdown on torture
CAIRO: Eighteen Egyptian human rights groups on Sunday blamed the abdication by the public prosecution office of its role in combating torture and police transgressions, for the increasing rate of…
Pope Shenouda III back in Egypt after US treatment
CAIRO: The elderly head of the Coptic church Pope Shenouda III, returned to Egypt on Monday following four months of medical treatment in the United States, according to the official…
Nubians still hold their breath for repatriation
CAIRO: The Nubian repatriation saga, which dates back to over one century when the inhabitants of what was then known as Nubia in Upper Egypt were first asked to leave…
Pyramids' facelift continues
CAIRO: Minister of Culture Farouk Hosny and Zahi Hawass, secretary general of the Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA), visited the Pyramids complex Saturday to inspect the latest of an ongoing…