Seven years of supplying the country with network solutions
Chinese company reflects on cooperation with local counterparts and its latest project with Telecom EgyptCAIRO: After joining forces with Telecom Egypt (TE) to provide DWDM technology for the local market,…
Present and Tense: The D-Model
President Bush and I don't get to spend much quality time together. I go to Camp David for the occasional peace talks, but it's always work and no play. You…
Taking stock after Lebanon's dust of war has settled
The Middle East is a place where the dust hardly ever settles. When it occasionally does, even for a short interval, since United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 calling for…
Accomplishing social development through artistic means
CAIRO: By exposing about 300 underprivileged children to art, workshops, field trips to museums, concerts and exchange programs, Alwan Wa Awtar, a non-profit organization, promotes visual and performing arts as…
Sports Talk: Titles to defend
Footballers of Burundi would need to think as positively as George Bush does about Iraq if they hope to beat Egypt when the two countries face off in Cairo today…
Football star Abdel Wahab dies in training
CAIRO: Egyptian international defender Mohamed Abdel Wahab died after collapsing on the training field on Thursday, club officials said. The 22-year-old, a member of the Egyptian side that won the…
Egypt begins defense of African Nations Cup
Reuters JOHANNESBURG: Champions Egypt head a list of 44 African countries who start their campaigns this weekend to qualify for the 2008 Nations Cup. Only Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe have…
Best-known books by Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz wrote more than 50 novels, five plays and scores of short stories and essays, he depicted with startling realism the Egyptian Everyman balancing between tradition and the modern…
World leaders, intellectuals mourn Naguib Mahfouz
CAIRO: Officials and cultural circles in Egypt and worldwide mourned the loss of one the greatest writers of modern times following the death Wednesday of Naguib Mahfouz. Leaders stressed the…