Amnesty slams Egypt for illegal detention of thousands
CAIRO: The Ministry of Interior holds around 18,000 administrative detainees in "degrading inhumane conditions, Amnesty International said in its 2008 report on human rights in Egypt. "Some had been held…
Intel: Riding the technology wave
CAIRO: "I look at the same data as everybody else and I come up with a different answer, said William A. Swope, Intel s corporate vice president, when asked to…
Global consumer confidence falls to record low, says survey
CAIRO: Fifty-six percent of global consumers think their country is currently in recession and consumer confidence worldwide has fallen to its lowest level in several years, according to the Nielsen…
Belgian Prince rounds up Egypt business trip
CAIRO: It has been just over a century since the Belgian Édouard Empain, a part-time Egyptologist and full-time capitalist, broke ground on the sprawling avenues of modern Heliopolis. Since then,…
Rotor: Connecting the dots between science and art
The concept of the prototypical polymath has disappeared into the folds of the 16th century, with science, math and art racing on a course far beyond the capacity of most.…
Digging up cinema relics
It was a gutsy move on the formidable production team of Lucas Films and Paramount to brush the dust off Indiana Jones' fedora and send him on another wild goose…
Voices of dead heroes
When filmmaker Dina Hamza was assigned to shoot a short film as an exercise in filming with three cameras, she never imagined that a workshop undertaking would turn into "Aswat…
Cairo: Stories in movement
Some say that divine will guides the chaotic and unpredictable life in Cairo, but author Lesley Lababidi tells Daily News Egypt that, in fact, "two groups essentially keep Cairo moving.…
Sphinx in dire need of a bird-repellent
CAIRO: The crowds of pigeons, doves and sparrows that have been landing regularly on several parts of the Sphinx indicate that the level of humidity is dangerously increasing within the…
