New American ambassador to Egypt due in May
CAIRO: The White House has nominated to Congress former ambassador to Syria Margaret Scobey to replace Francis J. Ricciardone as the new US ambassador to Egypt in May. The appointment…
Hamas presses for role in administrating Gaza border
GAZA CITY: Gaza's 1.5 million Palestinians were trapped behind closed borders again Monday, ending 12 days of freedom, after Egyptian forces sealed the last of the breaks in the Gaza-Egypt…
El-Ezz hikes steel prices to reach LE 4,800 per ton
CAIRO: El-Ezz Steel Rebars, Egypt's giant steel producer, added this week an extra LE 370 per ton to bring wholesale steel prices to LE 4,170 per ton and consumer prices…
'No conspiracy theory' behind internet cables damage, says ministry
CAIRO: The Ministry of Communications and Information Technology (MCIT) continued to assure speculators that foul play and ships were not the reasons behind the damage of the two undersea cables…
Major talents wasted in another bland tale of political corruption
The current production of Lenin El Ramly's latest play "Zaki Fi El Wizara (Zaki in the Ministry) says much about the stagnant state of the National Theater. Known for producing…
Alpine Schadenfreude
Not surprisingly, the atmosphere at this year's World Economic Forum was grim. Those who think that globalization, technology, and the market economy will solve the world's problems seemed subdued. Most…
Did Development Fail in Kenya?
A month ago, Kenya fell prey to a sudden burst of post-electoral violence that has left over 1000 dead and hundreds of thousands displaced. The intensity and scale of the…
Israeli and Palestinian
I have often made the statement that the destinies of the Israeli and Palestinian people are inextricably linked and that there is no military solution to the conflict. My recent…
Hard Talk: Egypt, Gaza: The nature of threats
It seems that the storming of the Egypt-Gaza border by hundreds of thousands of Gazans wasn't enough to end the stagnation hovering over Egyptian politics, despite the fact that Cairo…
