El-Hadari reveals Drogba approach
Essam El-Hadari claimed that Chelsea ace Didier Drogba asked him about the possibility of moving to Europe, following the Egypt goalkeeper s heroics in the 4-1 win over Ivory Coast…
Five Egyptians in Nations Cup all-stars team
ACCRA: Egypt supplied five of the 2008 Nations Cup all-stars team chosen by African Football Confederation officials and released Sunday. They are goalkeeper Essam El-Hadary, defender Wael Gomaa, midfielders Mohamed…
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Egypt court overturns police torture case acquittalReuters reported that one of the highest courts in Egypt has overturned the acquittal of three police officers and an undercover detective who had…
102 MPs request withdrawal of confidence from finance minister
CAIRO: Over 100 independent members of the People's Assembly, including the Muslim Brotherhood bloc, filed a request to withdraw confidence from Minister of Finance Youssef Boutros Ghaly Sunday, Brotherhood MP…
Regional economies have 'decoupled' from US, Europe
CAIRO: "Our region is proving resilient to uncertainty and volatility in the credit and financial markets of the US and Europe as a result of the US sub-prime and mortgage…
OpenCraft teams up with SugarCRM
CAIRO: The open source software development company OpenCraft recently became a silver partner with SugarCRM, which provides commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes,…
Al-Jazeera journalist escapes prison sentence
CAIRO: Al-Jazeera journalist Howayda Taha successfully appealed against a six-month prison sentence in a Heliopolis appeals court Monday but failed to have a LE 20,000 fine overturned.Taha was appealing against…
Berlin film fest brings fringe Muslims into focus
BERLIN: People living on the margins of Muslim society, from a heavy metal band in Iraq to transsexual Iranians and a gay Kurdish man in Turkey, managed to get their…
Mad Song challenges perception of reality
Much like the poem that inspired the dance, "Mad Song is an anti-performance, challenging audiences' perceptions of dance and stage performing."Mad Girl's Love Song is a landmark of confessional poetry…
New approach to media content regulation
Last week, the Egyptian Shoura Coucil (The Upper House of Parliament) demanded a review of the media code of ethics to examine the codes that control the content of the…