Orascom to transform Fayoum into a luxury locale
The Sleepy Fayoum oasis is about to undergo some major change. Last week at Al-Azhar Park, Egypt's tourism development powerhouse Orascom Development Holding (ODH) launched its latest project: Byoum Residence,…
'We go where the growth is,' says DuPont Egypt manager
CAIRO: What brings a 206-year-old company best known as the world's second largest chemical company to a construction trade fair?"We go where the growth is, Khaled El-Dessouky, DuPont's manager for…
Citizenship through art
The fifth cultural festival Mowatenoun Am Ra'eya (Citizens or Flock?) kicked off last Thursday at the Jesuit Cultural Center in Cairo with a high turnout for the two-month event.The festival…
With a Grain of Salt: A word of advice
One reader reproached me in a letter to the editor about the column I ran a few weeks ago in which I responded to an observation by another reader who…
The inevitable re-birth of European integration
European integration implies successive transfers of national sovereignty to the Union. But, while member states readily comply with decisions that abolish protective measures - say, import duties - they hesitate…
Saving resources to save growth
Reconciling global economic growth, especially in developing countries, with the intensifying constraints on global supplies of energy, food, land, and water is the great question of our time. Commodity prices…
Who Obama should talk to
Senator Barack Obama has positioned himself as an independent thinker unafraid to break the Washington mould. He says that, as president, he would pursue "direct diplomacy and talk to Iran…
Rolling down the river
From atop Mounib bridge, what was recently a common scene, has become a rarity. Amid tears of joy and sadness the wooden planks of a small boat touched the waters…
Arab League working on guidebook for language to be used by TV networks, news websites
CAIRO: Arab information ministers are drafting a lexicon that would spell out language terminology to be used by television networks and internet news sites in their countries, the Arab League…
Activists call for formation of independent trade unions
CAIRO: Increasing violations of workers' rights and an unrepresentative, state-controlled, trade union structure necessitate the formation of independent, worker-led, trade unions in Egypt, say labor rights activists.This was the conclusion…
