Brotherhood slams government's new measures
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood has blasted the government's decision to raise prices accusing Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif of swindling the citizens and falsifying facts.In a press conference organized on Monday…
Egypt defends the ban on food exports
CAIRO: Global furor over rice export bans - which many accuse of swelling global prices, warping farmers' incentives and starving neighbors for the sake of domestic stability - has adopted…
High car license fees impact poor more than rich, says opposition
CAIRO: While government officials see that raising vehicle license fees is a way of achieving social solidarity, car owners see an extra burden on their budget. Opposition figures, meanwhile, see…
Vodafone to distribute iPhones in Egypt
LONDON: British mobile phone giant Vodafone announced Tuesday that it will distribute Apple's wildly popular iPhone in 10 new countries including Australia, India and South Africa and Egypt.Vodafone said in…
Exploring calligraphy
Everyone calls me Layla Al Gamila (Beautiful Layla). I have told no one my secret of Quran Green, actress Dalia El-Guindy announced in the Howard Theater, "but this is not…
THE REEL ESTATE: Days of Being Wild
I still retain from my childhood a great anxiety, and the movies are bound up with an anxiety, with an idea of something clandestine, said François Truffaut.It's the Cannes Film…
Muslims oppose honor for Israel at Turin book fair
ROME: Muslim intellectuals opposed to the choice of Israel as the guest of honor at this year's book fair in the northern Italian city of Turin launched a seminar Monday…
In Focus: A new social contract
The best outcome of the May 4 Strike is that it has re-established the relationship between the citizen and the state in Egypt. I think the main advantage of this…
Telling Wright from Wrong
What was he thinking?How can Barack Obama's pastor of 20 years, the fiery Reverend Jeremiah Wright, a man of golden tongue and lofty ideals, shove his own candidate to the…
A human rights crime in Gaza
The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world…