BT Signs Major Contract Extension with Thomson Reuters
DUBAI: BT announced that it has signed an agreement with Thomson Reuters to manage the wide area network (WAN) element of its internal IT infrastructure in an eight year outsourcing…
Economy grows as inflation soars
CAIRO: The Egyptian economy grew at an annualized rate of 7.5 percent in the first quarter of 2008, compared to 7.4 percent in the same period last year and 8.1…
The naked identity of Nadine Hammam
It isn't every day, or any day for that matter, that one would stumble into a gallery in Cairo that's hosting a collection of nude paintings. It's even rarer to…
Prize-winning author sheds novel light on historic mystery
Australian author Geraldine Brooks admits her latest book, with its drunken priest, gambling rabbi and Muslim librarian, is "rather like the set-up of a very bad joke. But the Pulitzer…
Banal, unnecessary reflections of cultural schizophrenia
There's nothing special about being a child of globalization. In fact, it's rather mundane. If I had to count how many of my friends and family are the products of…
A musical dialogue: Rania Shaalan's music
Had Rania Shaalan picked a bicycle instead of a piano when given the choice on her seventh birthday, perhaps she wouldn't have been singing at El-Sawy Culture Wheel last Tuesday.…
The Revolution that Wasn't
It is May 1968. The world, flabbergasted, discovers that France has gone crazy. A general strike, affecting everything except electricity and the press, brings the country to a halt. No…
Moroccans shun violent extremism
Between Afghanistan and America, situated at the crossroads of Eastern and Western civilizations, lies a low-key ally in the fight against religious intolerance and extremism: Morocco.Despite the headlines painting this…
A historic compromise under threat
With both Israelis and Palestinians commemorating 60-year anniversaries at this time, it is instructive to look at what the respective sides are remembering. For Israelis, 1948 brought independence and statehood.…
Word on the Street: Egyptians too occupied with local problems to remember Nakba
CAIRO: May 15, 1948 marks the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba, or the catastrophe , on which Israel announced itself an independent state on Palestinian land. "Sixty years after the Israelis…