An evening with Mraya
Last Sunday evening, I headed to the Culture Wheel on a whim with some friends to see Mraya Band. None of us had heard Mraya Band, or even heard of…
Belgian artist discusses challenges of community art
A crowd of 15 gathered last Wednesday in the small library of the Townhouse Gallery to hear "When Tomorrow is Today, a discussion by Lasse Lau, a self-described "queer and…
Egypt through the eyes of Jemila Yosri
"I love these ducks. We had these in England. They don't like swimming very much; they prefer to stay on land. Jemila Yosri has a particular way of describing the…
Two faces of different worlds
Ursula Schulz-Dornburg is taking time out on the roof of the Windsor Palace rooftop garden watching fisherman toil in the murky waters of Alexandria's eastern harbor to explain the origins…
A Peace of Water
PRAGUE: The global financial crisis may be grabbing all the headlines, but resolving it should not be allowed to crowd out other vital issues. In the Middle East, for example,…
Good move on bad drugs
The US Food and Drug Administration has just banned 30 drugs from India's giant Ranbaxy Laboratories because of quality fears but the move is long overdue and Ranbaxy continues to…
La Strada on Wall Street
VIENNA: Apologists for neo-liberalism assume not only that states should be run like companies, but also that, as far as possible, they should not intervene in the economy. The market,…
Ban on commercial use of GPS in Egypt has consumers frustrated
CAIRO: Technology lovers and modern car owners in Egypt consider themselves unlucky because of a government ban on the usage of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. Telecoms Law 10/2003 outlaws…
Police arrest owner of collapsed building
CAIRO: Police in Alexandria arrested the owner of a building which collapsed before dawn on Wednesday, killing 11 residents, the state-run MENA news agency reported.The owner, Magdy Ishaq Malek, was…
Syndicate supports Hammouda in Azhar Sheikh's case
CAIRO: During a press conference at the Journalists' Syndicate hosting Adel Hammouda, the editor-in-chief of Al-Fajr independent newspaper, and writer Mohamed El Baz, syndicate members expressed their full support for…