Orascom Telecom makes foray into Canadian market
CAIRO: Egypt's giant telecom operator Orascom Telecom (OT) announced Tuesday its participation in a consortium chosen to create a new Canadian wireless operator.OT - which currently operates in six countries…
Bale arrested and released; denies assault
The darkness around Batman has deepened: While audiences were shattering weekend box-office records in the US, Christian Bale was in London, where his mother and sister reportedly leveled assault allegations…
Napalma feel at home with Ressala
Before popular band Ressala ascended the stage last Saturday at the Cairo Opera House's Open Air Theater, I noted a strong presence of percussions - a "regular drum kit, another…
French director shocks UN with disturbing film on child soldiers
French filmmaker Jean-Stephane Sauvaire brought the horror of Liberia's civil war to UN headquarters this week with the screening of "Johnny Mad Dog, his brutal portrayal of child soldiering.Sauvaire's film,…
Trade and Growth : weep not for Doha
The Doha Round of multilateral trade talks has already died a thousand deaths. But, apart from the bureaucracies in Geneva, Brussels and Washington, few are grieving.That's because the world economy…
Eyeball to eyeball at the top of the world
When a foreign minister goes out of his way to assure reporters that there is no tension on his country's borders with a powerful neighbor, the logical tendency is to…
Hope for coexistence enthuses delegates
"I never expected anything like it was the comment of one Pakistani Muslim attending the World Conference on Dialogue organized by the Muslim World League and hosted by Custodian of…
Is democracy a security issue?
The problem that authoritarian regimes have with democracy is not only that it may undermine the foundations of authoritarianism and tyranny and reveal the false legitimacy on which such regimes…
Non-teaching staff protest for 50 pct salary increase
CAIRO: Non-teaching staff within the Ministry of Education protested Monday on the steps of the Journalists' Syndicate against the ministry's decision to deny them a 50 percent pay increase.Holding up…
