Cairo's Ring Road: public enemy number one
CAIRO: While most university students start their day trying to find friends or heading to their morning class, at the German University in Cairo (GUC), students have a different drill:…
Mideast running on different clocks at Ramadan
CAIRO: The start of the holy month of Ramadan next week is causing clock confusion in the Middle East. Egypt and the Palestinians are falling back an hour far earlier…
Egyptian stuck in Saudi after dispute with guarantor
CAIRO: An Egyptian working in Saudi Arabia has been unable to leave the country for three years after a dispute with his guarantor reached the courts."I was working at a…
Sports Talk: Missing in action
President Mubarak wants to know why Egypt did so badly in Beijing and has set up a fact-finding committee to see what went wrong. We all want to know how…
Meteb scores on Ittihad debut
CAIRO: Emad Meteb netted his first goal for Ittihad Jeddah in Tuesday s 2-1 friendly victory over Qatar s Al-Gaish.The Egyptian has just arrived from Ahly this week after completing…
Zaki, Mido score in Carling Cup
CAIRO: Egypt duo Amr Zaki and Mido maintain their dazzling start to the season as they helped their respective teams to thumping Carling Cup victories on Tuesday.Zaki scored the second…