German Martin Kaymer wins Abu Dhabi third golf championship
In the mid of what used to be a barren dessert; Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, has been turned in the last 15 years into a…
Weekly Stock Review: US interest rates cuts save a week of plunges
CAIRO: The market extended losses on Sunday, as global declines drove foreign and retail investors to a selling spree. The CASE 30 Index lost by 3 percent to close at…
45 Egyptian companies make $2.5 mln in Qatar fair
CAIRO/DOHA: This year's Qatar International Trade Fair (ITF), which took place this month, featured the participation of 160,000 local and international visitors spending $26 million. Numbers indicate the fair is…
NEWS IN BRIEFS BRIEFS
Case denies tax rumorsThe Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchange denied circulating rumors about taxing "capital revenues resulting from stock market trading. The Case, which published the announcement on its website…
A disaffected, smug search for self at Townhouse
Art galleries in Cairo are, in terms of location, not easy to find. Only in a few cases does an art gallery have a clear, distinctive venue on a main…
'Super Size Me' director trails bin Laden in new film
PARK CITY, Utah: As the hero of documentary Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock subjected his body to a month-long regime of cheeseburgers and french fries as he lifted the lid…
With a Grain of Salt: Islam and Democracy
Hiroaki Kanazawa, Middle East Affairs correspondent for Nikkei - Japan's second largest newspaper and East Asia's foremost economics paper - asked me the other day: "Can the Arab world achieve…
Trends and trendiness at Davos
The annual World Economic Forum is rightly perceived as a global "barometer. But the superb sunshine in Davos these days cannot avoid the shadows of the financial crisis that have…
Beyond literacy in the Arab world
Education in the Arab world is a mixture of good and bad news. On one hand, literacy continues to improve across the region, with some countries progressing more than others.…