ONE ON ONE: AUB Group eyes more acquisitions, says Deputy CEO
CAIRO: In an environment where banks are merging and collapsing on the global scene, Ahli United Bank Egypt is maintaining a bullish, yet steady, growth-oriented approach to its business.One of…
Egypt economists anxious about US bailout plan
CAIRO: It is often said that when the US sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. Now, the US has caught pneumonia and the rest of the world…
UNCTAD focuses on getting private money into infrastructure
CAIRO: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) urged developing-market policymakers and business leaders to focus on luring foreign cash to traditionally low-margin but nevertheless crucial infrastructure sectors…
Stone's Bush biopic "W" in cinemas before elections
It s an improbable story about a simple man who somehow becomes the most powerful leader in the world, says director Oliver Stone about his new movie W, a biopic…
Romeo and Layla in the Park
An evening spent at the Geneina Theatre in Azhar Park is usually an evening well spent. At the very least, it's an outdoorsy outing, the rare cool breeze is always…
Bringing a theater to the streets of Cairo
Giant puppets, a fire show, Sufi-inspired dancing and mimes on stilts; in its second consecutive year, the "Spectacle on the Nile, a street-art project sponsored by the Goethe Institute in…
The chaotic beauty of "Pain Killers"
Flipping through the pages of "Aqras Al-Musakin (Pain Killers), the new release from the Malamih Publishing House, was a nostalgic experience. It brought back to mind a get-together with its…
The transcending sound of The Joubran Trio
"We are actually six brothers, said The Joubran Trio last Monday at their first concert in Egypt, held at Geneina Theater. The a'wad, the stringed-instruments they play, are their three…
A 'third way' for confronting Russia
PARIS: "Let's engage Russia if we can, but contain it if we must. These two alternatives already defined Western strategy toward Russia in the mid-1990s. Since then, Russia may have…