Brotherhood trial ends in prison terms as trouble erupts outside court
CAIRO: The year long military trial of 40 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) ended Tuesday with sentences ranging from three to ten years for 25 of the accused while…
Local elections a farce, say Carnegie Endowment experts
CAIRO: In a recent Carnegie Endowment report titled "Egypt's Local Elections Farce: Causes and Consequences Amr Hamzawy and Mohammed Herzallah argue that Egypt's controversial April 8 elections underscore the present…
Egypt discusses FTA with India
CAIRO: Heading a 35-member delegation, Minister of Trade and Industry Rachid Mohamed Rachid arrived in India Tuesday to discuss various areas of cooperation. According to The Hindu Business Line, a…
Qatari real estate giant begins $1 billion Cairo project
CAIRO: Qatar's giant real estate developer Qatari Diar announced Monday it began excavation work on its $1 billion complex overlooking the Nile in Cairo, due to be inaugurated in 2011.…
Juno steals the show with witty script, heartwarming romance
With the likes of "Knocked Up and "Waitress a new sub-genre centred on accidental pregnancies emerged last year in American cinema. Both films were major hits, connecting well with critics…
THE REEL ESTATE: Film market challenges Acting Syndicate chief's 'moralistic voice'
The Egyptian film scene was rocked last week by the decision of the president of the Egyptian Acting Syndicate Ashraf Zaki to limit Arab actors' participation in Egyptian dramas to…
Settlement freeze
A rash of reports coming out of Israel indicates that a spurt of new construction is under way in Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The development should be alarming…
Is there moral progress?
After a century that saw two world wars, the Nazi Holocaust, Stalin's Gulag, the killing fields of Cambodia, and more recent atrocities in Rwanda and now Darfur, the belief that…
India's Dalai dilemma
As the world reacts to China's crackdown in Tibet, one country is conspicuous by both its centrality to the drama and its reticence over it.India, the land of asylum for…
The peaceful protest culture
It is unacceptable for strikes to become pretexts for sabotage and the destruction of public and private facilities, or for protests to turn into chaos ungoverned by any political rules.What…