MP speaks out against US human rights report
CAIRO: The United States should make a distinction between the state and the government when criticizing Egypt's human rights record, MP and member of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs…
Samih Sawiris on Orascom's low-income housing project (Part I)
CAIRO: Driving along Cairo's labyrinthine Sixth of October bridge en route to Heliopolis, it's hard to miss the swarms of people on both sides jostling for space in Egypt's sprawling…
Egypt boosts participation in this year's Gitex
CAIRO: Building on its status as one of the largest telecom markets in North Africa, the Information Technology Industry Development Agency (ITIDA) announced on Monday its collaboration with Gitex Technology…
'Bloody Sunday' takes Egypt's bourse by storm, with 432 point dip
CAIRO: The Egyptian stock market flashed the red alert at the start of this week, plummeting 5.65 percent in two days, signaling a downhill tumble that could last all summer,…
Syd Field kicks off screenwriting workshops in Cairo
In the Leaders Training Center of Zamalek, esteemed American screenwriting coach Syd Field met the Egyptian press for the first time last Thursday to discuss his much-touted workshops in Egypt.…
The electric sound of Bikya
One balmy night last week, a crowd of about 60 people shuffled into Azhar Park's Geneina Theater to see a musical performance by Bikya, a Cairo-based electronic rock fusion ensemble.…
History will not absolve you
In the July/August 2008 issue of the bimonthly political magazine, Foreign Affairs, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice published a long essay titled "Rethinking our National Interest in which she reflected…
From heartache to Afghanistan
Have you ever worn a burqa before? asked the Amnesty International representative.One by one, the journalism students in the class I was teaching at American University of Paris took turns…
The end of neo-liberalism?
The world has not been kind to neo-liberalism, that grab-bag of ideas based on the fundamentalist notion that markets are self-correcting, allocate resources efficiently, and serve the public interest well.…
Economic monopoly in a divided system
One does not need to be a scientist or a philosopher to discover that the social conflict in Egypt has reached an unprecedented peak since the formation of the modern…