Sodic back on top after poor performance last year
CAIRO: In a statement by the Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchanges, the Sixth of October Development and Investment Company (Sodic) made a net profit of LE 50.52 million ($8.88 million)…
Ancient Egyptian martial art revived and revisited
The sport is, by some descriptions, a masculine and sometimes bloody martial art. More commonly, however, it is described as a quaint folkloric village dance. It is not a dance,…
THE REEL ESTATE: Lost in the Pirates' labyrinth
American critics attending the press screening of the third, and presumably the last, installment of the record-smashing Disney franchise Pirates of the Caribbean were given a notice asking (or rather…
Drug abuse in suburban Egypt tackled in short film
A worn-out looking man in his early 30s fumbles around for a lighter in the front room of his diminutive apartment. It s noon, it s bright outside, and the…
Strange Bedfellows: The US-Palestinian Axis
On an average-size map of the world, there is no space to mark the locations of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. On one map, the former is outlined…
Perilous mission for underwater archaeologist
An excavator with diving skills and the courage to risk his own lifeALEXANDRIA: It was dangerously stormy weather and high waves lashed down on the small Pharos Island where the…
Scientist races to save Ancient Egypt
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Egyptologist Sarah Parcak, PhD, is in a race against time. In Egypt, thousands of known and unknown archaeological sites are at risk of destruction…
Africa's biggest trade bloc agrees tax system
ReutersNAIROBI: Africa s biggest trade bloc Comesa approved a common external tariff system on Wednesday, clearing a major hurdle for a customs union intended to boost trade in some of…
Russia sponsors conference to bring Muslims and Christians together
CAIRO: The idea seemed upside down at the beginning. Russia sponsors a conference on Islam: Tradition and Ethics not within its own borders, but in Egypt. The conference began Sunday…