No offers for Meteb
CAIRO: Al Ahly striker Emad Meteb denied on Sunday reports linking him with a move abroad, expressing his desire to maintain his current fine form. Neither Al Ahly nor I…
Ismaili to offload eight players in January
ISMAILIA: Ismaili gave an ultimatum to the players who would not earn regular first team places before putting them on the transfer list. The Dervishes are tipped to off-load eight…
Fired workers demonstrate outside Workers' Union
CAIRO: Jobless and penniless, eight men held a demonstration in front of the Workers Union yesterday Jan. 9. The eight men, who have been jobless for three months, were sacked…
Three students die in Egypt university stampede: security
CAIRO: Three students were crushed to death and another seven injured on Saturday as they attempted to escape a lecture theater after news spread of a fire at their Nile…
Muslim Americans speak out in the 'Hijabi Monologues'
CAIRO: One of the defining features of modern times is a mania for public confession: from Bill Clinton's televised broadcast in 1998 telling the world what it already knew about…
Sail the Nile campaign finally docks
CAIRO: After 45 days sailing up the Nile, eight weather beaten boats came to anchor at El-Gezira gardens in Zamalek. The events of Sail the Nile 2008 were drawing to…
Musings: Back to the roots
For the past 50 years, Egyptian and foreign intellectuals and researchers have been accustomed to classifying intellectual and political currents in Egypt into four main categories: Islamists, nationalists (aka Nasserites),…
Economic breakthrough tied to political one
The Palestinian economy has been in an ever-deepening crisis since the outbreak of the second Intifada in 2000, a crisis rooted in and perpetuated by an extremely inauspicious political setting.…
Britain's New Internationalism
With President George W. Bush's grand strategy for the Middle East in ruins, his administration has, however hesitantly, begun to put greater emphasis on resolving conflicts by peaceful means. The…
Behind Musharraf's emergency rule
Many Western media and policymakers appear preoccupied with the danger of Pakistan s nuclear weapons falling into the hands of extremists - whether small terrorist groups or organized political parties…
