Rice exports banned for 6 months
CAIRO: Rice exports have been suspended for six months starting April 2008, announced the Minister of Trade and Industry, Rachid Mohamed Rachid, according to local newspapers. The decision aims at…
CMA approves amendments on short-selling
CAIRO: Ahmed Saad Abd El-Latif, the chairman of the Capital Market Authority (CMA), approved on Wednesday the new amendments on short-selling, which enable investors to sell borrowed shares, reported Al…
Government proposes investing pension fund surpluses
CAIRO: A senior finance ministry advisor said on Wednesday that the controversial draft pensions and social insurance law was about to be finalized and presented to the PA.Mohamed Ahmed Moeed,…
Singing out loud: the voice of Dalia Farouk
Dalia Farouk broke all the rules when she rose to the top of Egypt's opera scene at a young age, quickly becoming one of the nation's most popular and successful…
Moments of pure cinematic torture
I have recently watched two films with nearly all-female casts, "Caramel, in which four women in Beirut subject us to their various trysts with men, and the appallingly-named "Lahzaat Onootha…
The trials and tribulations of Amy Mowafi
What do you call an Egyptian girl who works, parties, dates and quotes Carrie Bradshaw - Sarah Jessica Parker's character in "Sex and the City - as if she were…
Lebanon censors 'unban' Persepolis
BEIRUT: Lebanese authorities on Thursday went back on their decision to ban the prize-winning animated film Persepolis following an outcry and accusations that the censorship was aimed at pleasing Iran…
High anxiety
The United States has reached a point where almost half its population is described as being in some way mentally ill, and nearly a quarter of its citizens - 67.5…
Iranian film shows that tragedy breaks down barriers
The film Bam 6.6 weaves the drama of Tobb and Adele, a Jewish-American, with other accounts of the catastrophic natural disaster that killed more than 40,000 people and destroyed 90…
PAL – ah – STIN -ians
While it may be difficult to remember, George W. Bush was once considered a debater who could match wits with the likes of Al Gore and John Kerry. This judgment…