Improved economy drawing more investors, boosts stock market
CAIRO: The start of the week saw stocks rising with increased activity on the Case 30 as Arab investors pushed the benchmark up 2.3 percent, highlighting their interest in Egypt's…
Businesses in the Middle East are making WEEE harder for themselves, says Motorola
CAIRO: Motorola has warned that businesses in the Middle East are making it harder for themselves to comply with the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) initiative by failing to…
CIB's operating profits record new highs
CAIRO: Commercial International Bank (CIB), Egypt s largest listed lender by value, recently posted its second-biggest quarterly profit on record, as operating profits soared to new highs.The bank recorded a…
Italian musician uncovers hidden music in Da Vinci's 'Last Supper'
It's a new Da Vinci code, but this time it could be for real.An Italian musician and computer technician claims to have uncovered musical notes encoded in Leonardo Da Vinci's…
THE REEL ESTATE: A civic lecture of 'Lions for Lambs'
In his acerbic 1972 political drama "The Candidate, American prodigy Robert Redford played an idealistic democratic senate candidate, Bill McKay, who ultimately wins after compromising his principles and "telling people…
Fresh water makes good neighbors
You're back, and you're in one piece! is a phrase that I have been welcomed with alarmingly often over the past two weeks. In Cambridge, it is apparently normal to…
Techniques of deception: From Popper to Rove and back
In his novel 1984, George Orwell chillingly described a totalitarian regime in which all communication is controlled by a Ministry of Truth and dissidents are persecuted by political police. The…
Sadat's Journey, 30 Years After
If "one man of courage makes a majority, as Andrew Jackson said, then 30 years ago, in November 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat was such a man. His peace overture…
IN FOCUS: A True Civil Society
You'd be wrong to think that the current opposition parties in Egypt will affect any form of change in the coming years. Apart from the fact that they are farcical…
Guarding optimism
The skeptics have unassailable arguments: History and a consistent record of failure are on their side. Expectations of success for the Middle East summit in Annapolis are further dampened by…