Intel hosts local talents at its International Science and Engineering Forum
CAIRO/AMMAN: Intel announced in a press conference held recently in Jordan, the names of young talented students to participate in Intel's International Science and Engineering Forum in Georgia, USA. "We…
THE REEL ESTATE: Anthony Minghella (1954 – 2008)
Ibelieve it was the spring of 2007 when I first saw "The English Patient at the local film multiplex beside my school. The film was released in Egypt with a…
Why a flood of new archaeological discoveries?
CAIRO: Many of you may have questioned why, suddenly around this time of the year, a flurry of archaeological discoveries appears in the press and on television. Well, forget your…
Lampooning Dick Cheney's Vacation
The US seems to enjoy sending its most hated figures to the Middle East to promote its most unpopular policies. Shipping Dick Cheney off to the region is like sending…
Rescuing the two-state solution
Here s a truism of Middle East diplomacy. Everyone knows the outline of the eventual settlement: there will be two states, one Israeli, one Palestinian, alongside each other, their borders…
Turkey's Secular Fundamentalist Threat
The Chief Prosecutor of Turkey's High Court of Appeals recently recommended to the country's Constitutional Court that the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) be permanently banned. Only last July,…
With a Grain of Salt: I bang, therefore I am!
What with the banging and honking for the government we see in some newspapers and the attacks and defamation we see in others, the real reader who merely seeks documented…
Cairo priest exorcises Muslim and Christians
CAIRO: Every Friday, thousands of Christians and a handful of curious Muslims pour into Cairo's St Mark's Coptic Church to hear Father Makari Yunan preach, drawn by his power to…
Doctors postpone wage protest to April 23
CAIRO: During a heated emergency general assembly meeting on Friday, the Doctors' Syndicate voted to hold protests outside hospitals for better pay on April 23. The emergency general assembly was…
