AAIB achieves Euromoney best bank award for second time
CAIRO: Arab African International Bank was awarded the Euromoney awards for excellence as "Best Bank in Egypt for the year 2008, in an award ceremony held in Dubai last week.Achieving…
Egypt to launch Commodities Exchange next year
CAIRO: Egypt's stock market will launch a commodities exchange April-May 2009 that will trade in several agricultural and industrial products, said Minister of Investment Mahmoud Moehieldin on Thursday."In today's world,…
Dying Long: A Passage of 35 Minutes
When you try to snare friends into going with you to attend what your editor describes as "interesting and "veers towards the bizarre, but unwittingly blurt the words "experimental and…
A KHAWAGA'S TALE: It's summer time!
Summer time has finally rolled round. The Queen's Birthday Ball will be held at the British Embassy on Friday, the baby stroller is boxed up and the credit card is…
When it comes to Alzheimer's there is no Mid-East conflict
I am fighting the anti-Israel boycott in academia and science by doing the opposite, says Mark Gluck, professor of Neuroscience at Rutgers University-Newark. Any boycott of Israeli research would not…
Little engery for peace
RAMALLAH, West Bank-When I reported from Israel in the mid-1980s, the big debate here was whether Israel s settlement-building in the West Bank had passed a point of no return-a…
No surprises in Obama's speech on Israel
Obama's vehemently pro-Israeli speech at the annual conference of the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was not surprising. What was surprising was the shock and disappointment it provoked in…
Small businesses wary of AUC move to New Cairo
CAIRO: For almost 90 years, the American University of Cairo (AUC) has defined the identity of Cairo's Downtown area. Its 5,600 students and faculty, most of whom are wealthier than…
The zoo story
CAIRO: It s a hot June day and the bears at the Giza Zoo are struggling to stay cool in the shade of their outdoor cages, their only relief a…