Egyptian stock market plunges 8.85 pct as OCI tanks
CAIRO: Egypt's main stock index plunged 8.85 percent on Wednesday, following Gulf Arab markets lower as heavyweight Orascom Construction Industries plummeted. The benchmark CASE 30 index last traded at 5,112.29…
THE REEL ESTATE: Egypt's reel sex dilemma
One particular news item caught my attention last week. According to reports, scriptwriter Ahmed Saleh denounced the cinematic treatment of his "Kobolat Masrooka (Stolen Kisses) script, accusing director Khaled El…
Decoding Egypt: Abolishing the Rentier Mentality
If anything in Egypt is worth learning from the global financial crisis, it is that the current structure of the Egyptian economy and the mindset sustaining it needs fundamental change.…
Women and the American Presidential Campaign
OLYMPIA, WASHINGTON: Barack Obama and John McCain are the two contenders in America's presidential election this year, but the campaign has also been dominated by two very different women, Hillary…
Kouchner and the Palestinian-Israeli struggle
PARIS: After his visit to Jenin accompanied by Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner became more optimistic, despite the existing tribulations in the Palestinian territories.Fayyad is…
Turkey and the EU: slowly but surely
WASHINGTON, DC: When Turkey was granted official-candidate status for EU membership in 1999, neither the EU nor Turkey thought that the transition would be an easy or rapid one. And…
Journalists on hunger strike hospitalized
CAIRO: Journalists continued their hunger strike Wednesday against the refusal of the Journalists' Syndicate to grant them membership.Three journalists, Mohamed Abdel Raouf and Abdu Zaky from El-Badeel, and Ramy Hussein…
Health Ministry investigates deaths at Nile Badrawi Hospital
CAIRO: The Health Ministry launched an investigation into the death of two patients at the Nile Badrawi Hospital in Maadi, both of whom reportedly used defective oxygen tanks while in…
Landmark sexual harassment case ends in three-year sentence
CAIRO: The first sexual harassment case to be taken to court in Egypt ended with a landmark three-year jail sentence for the accused at the North Cairo courthouse in Abbasiya…
Egypt draw 'lucky' Algeria in World Cup
ZURICH: The last time World Cup underachievers Egypt reached the tournament they defeated Algeria en route.So the unhappiness of the Pharaohs at being drawn against the North Africans here Wednesday…
