Safwat El Sherif: National Council for Human Rights replaces two members who resigned
CAIRO: Sawfat El Sherif, head of the Shura Council (SC), the upper house of Parliament, announced Wednesday Jan. 24 the new formation of the National Council for Human Rights (NCHR).El…
Egypt's ITSoft will export software and information technologies to the American Herland Financial Solutions company
CAIRO: ITSoft, an Egyptian computer programming company, signed an agreement Monday Jan. 22 with Phoenix Systems Herland Financial Solutions, an American company, to provide them with software and information systems.The…
An artist on an intercultural mission
Mohamed Abla draws international artists to his Fayoum art centerA 4-wheel drive would help maneuver the unpaved narrow lanes to Fayoum's International Art Center tucked away in the hillside village…
Egypt's philosopher prince unveils his new collection
Stars and media pack into Farouk Hosni's latest gallery showing Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni unleashed his latest collection of abstract paintings to a celebrity-jammed crowd at the Zamalek Art…
Egypt says new seven wonders of the world competition 'demeans' the pyramids
CAIRO: Egypt is fuming over a competition to choose the world s new seven wonders, deriding it as a marketing stunt that demeans the pyramids of Giza, the only surviving…
Welcome to the suburbia nightmare
CIC starts Egypt s first film marathonThe basic concept behind the term Suburbia dates back to ancient Rome and Athens where governors and other members of the wealthy elite had…
Meet the authors
Now's your chance to meet some of your favorite Egyptian authors. The American University in Cairo Press is hosting a number of book signing sessions at their Naguib Mahfouz Pavilion…
The Lebanese might repeat the past
I spent two days in Beirut in late 2002. And the tension I sensed simmering between people there even during this short stay has come to my recollection in light…
Religion and politics, an odd couple?
When the end of ideology was celebrated first in the 1950s and then, more emphatically still, in the 1990s no one foresaw that religion, the bane of politics in the…
We'll soon see if it's Mission Impossible for Petraeus
For a nation bitterly divided over Iraq, the one point of agreement seems to be that Lt. Gen. David Petraeus is the right commander for American forces in Baghdad. That…