The films which should win at the Cairo film fest

CAIRO: After 10 days, more than 70 films, various heated press conferences and one strange seminar, the festival has finally come to an end with the little matter of the…

Joseph Fahim

Cairo International Film Festival: Today's Highlights

The Tiger and the Snow (Italy)A love-struck Italian poet is stuck in Iraq at the onset of an American invasion. The director Roberto Benigni mixes tragedy with light comedy, so…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Sinking relics, hidden treasures

Underwater archaeology in the spotlightCAIRO: The Supreme Council of Antiquities decision to set up an underwater museum to showcase artifacts discovered at the old eastern port of Alexandria, has boosted…

Ahmed Maged

So much garbage

Don't bin it, rehabilitate itCAIRO: At a workshop on Sunday a group of young people from three poor Cairo districts - Bolaq El Dakroor, Manshiet Nasser and Al-Darb El-Ahmar -…

Farah El Alfy

Three's quite the crowd

CAIRO: A woman who married two men at the same time was reported to the police by her second husband, who had tied the knot without prior knowledge that she…

Ahmed Maged

Truck crash kills 10 in southern Cairo

CAIRO: Ten people died and seven were seriously injured when a truck crashed into a microbus cab on the Quraimat Road, Al Saf in the southern parts of the capital.…

Ahmed Maged

Car with no brakes kills six pedestrians

CAIRO: A truck carrying fuel for Misr petroleum ran amuck in Al Sayeda Aisha district of Old Cairo killing six people, including two infants.Police investigations indicated that the car s…

Yasmine Saleh

Local producers mount fight against consumer protection laws

CAIRO: The Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI) called on the government Sunday to rescind the recently ratified Consumer Protection Law, until significant amendments are made, to protect local producers from…

Ahmed A. Namatalla