COFFEE TALK: Unveiling lives
Besides helping me escape my world, eavesdropping allows me to glimpse into other peoples lives for a few minutes. Today, I have discovered an additional benefit to this activity: it…
Middle East peace a reality in new game
Many have tried. All have failed. But with a new computer game, you can make peace in the Middle East.The software, called PeaceMaker and manufactured by Israeli and US programmers…
New distribution points and home delivery service for subsidized bread
CAIRO: The Ministry of Social Solidarity and the Social Fund for Development are in the process of creating a new system to enhance the government's subsidized bread quality and its…
Inter-Arab trade steady at $85 bln, says head of CAEU
CAIRO: Secretary General of the Council for Arab Economic Unity (CAEU) Ahmed Goueli announced at the People's Assembly last week that inter-Arab trade in 2006 reached $85 billion, similar to…
Vodafone launches its 3G services, promising speed, quality and great offers
CAIRO: Starting this week, streets and television channels across the country will be flooded with banners and advertisements in bright red, as Vodafone Egypt finally launched its 3G Broadband services…
Voice to the voiceless: Egyptian women speak out
Three years ago, a small amateur female theater group at the American University in Cairo staged American playwright Eve Ensler s off-Broadway controversial play The Vagina Monologues, raising about $1,200…
Instability in Turkey has damaged its international standing
Turkey will hold its parliamentary election in July, four months earlier than scheduled, thereby narrowly avoiding a constitutional crisis over the choice of the country's next president. Nonetheless, Turkey's bout…
Israeli media as both monitors and occupation tools
Long before the Winograd report was released to the public last week, the Israeli media had cast doubt on the qualifications of those who managed the second Lebanon war last…
Azmi Bishara and never leaving home
Recently, Azmi Bishara, head of the Balad party, resigned from his post as a member of the Israeli Knesset. He announced that he would not return to Israel anytime soon…
