NDP wins 92 percent of local poll seats
CAIRO: Egypt s ruling party has won 92 percent of the votes in municipal elections boycotted by the main opposition group the Muslim Brotherhood, a security official told AFP. After…
Gaza braces for more violence after 21 killed
GAZA CITY: The Gaza Strip braced for more violence on Thursday after three Israeli soldiers and 18 Palestinians, one a cameraman for an international news agency, were killed in a…
Carter meets Hamas leaders in Egypt
CAIRO: Jimmy Carter met with a Hamas delegation from the Gaza Strip in Cairo on Thursday after Israel barred the former US president from visiting the Palestinian territory.The delegation, which…
Facebook activist detained 'indefinitely'
CAIRO: Twenty-seven-year-old Esraa Abdel Fattah, who was taken into custody by security forces for allegedly masterminding the April 6 general strike, received a detainment order from the Interior Ministry for…
Egypt to cut rice planting in favor of corn
CAIRO: Egypt will reduce the land allocated for planting rice to save water and encourage farmers to grow more corn, Agriculture Minister Amin Abaza told Bloomberg.In an interview in New…
Mansour refutes railway privatization, stresses 'public-private partnerships'
CAIRO: On news that the government plans to lease four railway lines to private investors by the end of this year, Minister of Transport Mohamed Mansour confirmed that the government…
'Next Move' opens with a giddy bang
CAIRO: "It's the right time to be in real estate. It's a local maxim that would make American brokers chuckle or, perhaps more likely, cringe. But for a cluster of…
Life as a mathematical maze
It's easy to forget that regardless of their aesthetic or conceptual qualities, most artworks are born of a childlike curiosity. Such curiosity is currently on display at the International Media…
Marcel Khalife's experimental performance leaves much to be desired
In those moments of pre-performance mingling at the Cairo Opera House, as we waited for the revolutionary and much revered Lebanese oud master Marcel Khalife and his Al Mayadine Quartet…
Amateur filmmakers break the rules in Second Cairo Mobile Film Festival
The intimate, personal works of a number of novice directors using the latest art tools have been briefly put under the spotlight last week at the Second Cairo Mobile Film…