HEALTH MATTERS: Football beats jogging for fitness, says study
There's good news for all the sportsmen that crowd Cairo's football fields during Ramadan. A friendly game of football works off more fat and builds up more muscle than jogging,…
Part 1: A long summer weekend in El Sahel
As summer around the Mediterranean shifts into high gear every August, the world s beautiful people and everyone else hoping to ride their coat-tails can usually - predictably - be…
SOHOUR TALK: Not quite
The weather is getting better again to the point of being chilly at night, or perhaps it's the fasting all day then suddenly eating that makes it feel that way.…
CNN launches Middle East finance show
CAIRO: It doesn't take an economist to tell you that money and financial information are complements. That is, when people get more of one, they almost instantly want more of…
Fertilizer industry to suffer under future energy price hikes, says official
CAIRO: During controversial discussions on energy pricing, Mohamed Abul-Enein, head of the Parliament s Energy and Industry committee, said the price increase should be applied with caution in the fertilizers…
Egypt's ranking drops from 70 to 105 in international corruption index
CAIRO: Corruption is perceived as rampant in Egypt, as the country's ranking declined from 70 to 105 out of 180 countries listed on the Corruption Perceptions Index 2007 (CPI) recently…
Dubbed 'New Baghdad,' real estate prices soar in Sixth of October City
CAIRO: With the influx of high-income Iraqi refugees to the Sixth of October City, the price of residential and commercial property has skyrocketed over the past two years.Egyptians residents of…
Ramadan's dark hours light up the local cultural scene
Gone are the days when the only form of entertainment after iftar is to park yourself in front of the TV set. This year, the choices are profuse. Ramadan is…
WITH A GRAIN OF SALT: That Malicious "X"
In my last visit to Saudi Arabia, I was saddened to see that the Kingdom's morality police, officially known as the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of…
YOUTH VIEWS: Humanity doesn't change with geography
CAIRO/IOWA CITY, IOWA: The Arab world and the West represent two sides of the same coin. Though we are from different parts of the globe, we are two parts that…