Consumer rights agency refers two companies to the public prosecutor
CAIRO: The Consumer Protection Regulatory Agency (CPRA) has recently turned in two cases to the public prosecutor's office after receiving several consumer complaints against them.The companies are El Nahrein institute…
Congress delegation allegedly visits Arish, meets with MPs, but Brotherhood excluded
CAIRO: North Sinai governor Ahmed Abdel Hamid denied media claims that a delegation of US congressmen visited Arish, where it spent 20 minutes observing the security situation on the border…
Egypt grieves loss of award-winning writer
CAIRO: Abdel Azim Ramadan, famous writer and member of the Supreme Council of Culture died Wednesday at the age of 82, leaving behind a prominent collection of scholarly books and…
International IT company finances a regional youth initiative
CAIRO: CA, one of the major international information technology management and software companies, has agreed to finance the Young Arab Leaders Organization (YAL) to launch the regional Youth Network Initiative.…
Documentary proactively tackles unemployment concerns
CAIRO: May God make it easy. It is a phrase oft-repeated among Egyptians who seem to have little hope of accomplishing the task in question. Rabinah Yesahel, or May God…
FGM: Rule of law vs. rule of tradition
CAIRO: Would a fatwa by the highest religious authority and a ministerial decree be enough to reduce, let alone stop, the practice of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM)?In a county where,…
90 Students learn to be agents of change
CAIRO: Ninety schools students will become certified Agents of Change on July 7 by the Dance4Life organization. Taking place in the Civil Education Center, this is the first "Life Skills…
The truth about Ashraf Marwan?
"Mubarak resolves the Ashraf Marwan debate: he was a loyal patriot. So claimed the headline of the daily Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper on July 3, referring to the media frenzy that…
Some common sense from Javier Solana
After the attack against a Spanish patrol two Sundays ago, Spain's military began cooperating with Hizbullah in the investigation to determine who had killed its soldiers. This was based on…
The US must get serious, and ready, for an attack
How would America react to a future terrorist attack? Would the country come together to combat its adversaries, or would it pull further apart? Perhaps we will never have to…