Negotiations to relocate Agrium still underway
CAIRO: Agrium Egypt will not make an announcement on its future until the parent company in Canada clears the result of its negotiations with the government over the relocation of…
Group talent at the Alexandria Library
An artist's debut show is a haunting ordeal. Both the artist and the artwork become vulnerable to the blind admiration of friends and the ruthless criticism of strangers. A debut…
Egypt's "Aida" sold out at new Beijing Opera
In what was dubbed a historical event, the Cairo Opera House's choir, ballet and symphony orchestra staged their first China performance of Giuseppe Verdi's classic opera "Aida at Beijing's new…
The return of Limby, again!
Last month I watched Hamada Helal warbling in "Helm El-Omr (Dream of a Lifetime) - in which Ezzat Abu Ouf played a slightly nasty cigar-smoking man called Roshdy Beik.This week,…
Tall tales and holy grails
A great many expat journalists in exotic places will recognize something of their own lives, not to mention their own selves, in Rowan Somerville's first novel "The End of Sleep.…
The stigma factor
I have met many remarkable people in my life: presidents, kings, diplomats.One of the most memorable of these encounters - and certainly most moving - came a bit more than…
Burns' visit to Iran – a first step
US Undersecretary for Political Affairs, William Burns, attended a recent meeting in Geneva between EU Secretary-General Javier Solana and Iran s chief nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili. This decision was the…
The extremists unbound
The pattern of policymaking in the Middle East, as it was defined since President Bush's "axis if evil speech of January 2002, is undergoing a momentous change of direction. Bush's…