Skepticism over Gamal Mubarak's presidential ambitions
CAIRO: Despite popular belief, some experts and media observers do not think that the son of President Mubarak, Gamal's marriage is grooming him to assume Egypt's top official position.Gamal Mubarak…
Shoura council discusses new political rights law
CAIRO: The Shoura Council (Upper House of Parliament) discussed on Saturday plans to set up a committee, to be renewed every three years, which will be in charge of supervising…
Egypt's Case to launch commodities exchange in '08
ReutersCAIRO: Egypt s Cairo and Alexandria Stock Exchanges (Case) will introduce a commodities market in Cairo in 2008, a senior government official said on Friday.Case s chairman Maged Shawky had…
Egyptian Emirati trade going strong, says MOI
CAIRO: Emirati interest in investing in Egypt was the underlying theme to the annual Global Trade Matters (GTM) conference on Egypt Emirates Trade and Investment held in Cairo Sunday."There is…
Of thugs, gentlemen and the Cairo Rugby Club
Cairo Rugby Club defeated Alexandria 14-7 on Friday, in a free flowing game, played on a well grassed pitch in front of a vocal crowd that kept the bar staff…
Constructive currents flow below Middle Eastern civil society
We are often so obsessed with the problems and conflicts that define the relationship between the Middle East and the West today that we tend to lose sight of the…
The US and Iran are near a dialogue
Sometimes big developments are hidden in plain sight, and that appears to be the case with Iran and the United States. The two countries have moved over the past year…
David Halberstam, Iraq, and the shadow of Vietnam
To steal a laconic phrase from Fouad Ajami, say whatever you will about the American experience in Vietnam, the war was well written. Few wrote it better than David Halberstam…
WORD ON THE STREET: Labor Day marred by strikes and economic woes
CAIRO: Vows to protect workers rights and pledges to improve the living standards of Egypt s massive blue collar class are almost a daily fixture in media headlines. This year…
What will tomorrow's man look like?
CAIRO: A pioneering scientist who has researched the issue of how 21st century technology will reverse the way we feel and think, explained that the world of tomorrow s people…