Brotherhood bloc to visit Sudan
CAIRO: A delegation from the Muslim Brotherhood's (MB) bloc at the People's Assembly will be meeting with Sudanese President Omar Al-Beshir next week.The delegation is on a visit to Sudan…
Acer partners with Interact Egypt
CAIRO: Acer signed Egypt's Interact as an executive partner to further service Africa's growing IT market, the firm reported in a press statement. The move is in line with Acer's…
Oracle Academy launches regional training program
CAIRO: More than 120 faculty members from 14 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) will take part in an IT skills training program provided by Oracle Academy.…
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…