Vegetable vendors go the extra mile
CAIRO: The green grocer's job was once limited to selling vegetables. But today his responsibilities have extended to cleaning and sometimes peeling their fresh goods.Some vendors - mostly women -…
Some people just never learn: proposed teachers' law shows that someone just doesn't get it
Everyone with children in schools raise your hands.Now, those of you who are shelling out money for "private tuition keep your hands up.Chances are, the room's still full of a…
America looks for ways to fight its worst enemy: IEDs
The photographs gathered by The Washington Post each month in a gallery called "Faces of the Fallen are haunting. The soldiers are so young, enlisted men and women mostly, usually…
Good, and unworkable, ideas in Darfur
At last we have it. Five months after the United States promised to unleash "Plan B against the Sudan government unless it agreed to allow United Nations peacekeepers into Darfur,…
Vote for me and I will grant you heaven
In Egypt, people are considered to be so kind that they would not allow anyone to go hungry. And religion seems to be a subject that stands out as being…
Let's polish a Lebanese national jewel
A significant number of readers must remember Lebanon in the 1990s, a time when whisky was the sine qua non for those wanting to put on a show and Dewar's…
A Gulf on fire, if you haven't noticed
The Gulf states often attract attention for their fast pace of physical development, as striking new commercial and government complexes appear in the skylines of Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Doha, Kuwait,…
Beyond the Maid's crisis: Towards a National Migration Policy
The cooperation protocol with Saudi Arabia signed by the Minister of Manpower Aisha Abdel Hadi and the Saudi Arabian Council of Chambers of Commerce and Industry, allowing 120 thousand Egyptian…
THE REEL ESTATE: A hollow tragedy in "45 days"
Regardless of what you might think of him, Mohammed Hefzy is now widely recognized as one of the hottest new talents in Egyptian cinema. The young scriptwriter s touch has…
Gala fashion evening supports "Right to Live"
Proceeds from Dior's gala fashion show tonight will be contributed to The Right to Live Association for the Intellectually Disabled (RTLA). The association is a nonprofit private organization that provides…
