65 more Brotherhood members arrested ahead of municipal elections
CAIRO: At dawn on Monday security forces arrested 65 members of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Sharqeya, Kafr El-Sheikh, Sohag, Gharbeya, Giza, Qena, and Menufiya, said a Brotherhood press statement.The…
ExxonMobil Egypt to launch textile industry lubricants
CAIRO: ExxonMobil Egypt is set to launch two new lubricants specifically designed for the textile industries, the company announced in a statement to the press. Under Mobil brand, the two…
Abo Hadeed: first 3D game developed in the Arab world
CAIRO: Intel Corporation confirmed at Cairo ICT its support of Khayal's first-ever commercial 3D game developed in the Arab world: "Abo Hadeed. Created by three Egyptian engineers that were chosen…
Steel prices soar, fertilizers follow
CAIRO: For the fourth time this year, Al-Ezz Steel Rebars upped prices an extra LE 370 per ton this week, bringing wholesale steel prices to LE 4,580 per ton and…
Yorka returns to the stage
Yes... yes! That's it, music composer Abdel-Monem Saeid shouted at the end of a musical composition his band Yorka tried out last week during a five-hour rehearsal."How about we try…
Hard Talk: Against Terrorism or Freedom?
A quick glance at the draft anti-terrorism bill indicates unforseen threats to individual and public freedoms. The first section of the draft law gives such an elastic definition of terrorism…
An Israeli revisits Malaysia
Malaysia stands, in my view, as a place for great social pioneering. I recently returned there for the second time in two years. My first visit took place in December…
Modernization à la Carte?
Two centuries ago the American and French Revolutions brought forth the natural law concept of inalienable human rights. However, it took nearly two centuries of wars, political and social disasters,…
Virus and fear
In our daily lives we know the difference: a doctor is not a judge, a nurse is not a policeman, a hospital is not a court of law. Yet imagine…
Biofuels will be the only alternative, says expert
CAIRO: Amid skyrocketing oil prices and the oil crisis that forebodes the depletion of the world's major resources, an expert has underlined that the future is bound to support the…