Proposed employment law spurs rumors, civil servants panic
CAIRO: No changes will be made to the status of the 5.6 million permanent civil servants as a result of the new civil employment law, Dr Ahmed Darwish, minister of…
Cairo International Film Festival kicks off in style
Festival celebrates world stars in a simple, elegant ceremonyCAIRO: Amid a blaze of fireworks and a soundtrack of dreamy classic American tunes, the 30th Cairo International Film Festival opened yesterday…
THE REEL ESTATE: Why the film festival still matters?
CAIRO: My first memories of the Cairo International Film Festival date six years back. I had been following the festival religiously every year on TV but I never got the…
Reform and peace are interdependent in Palestine
Since 2002, the United States' diplomacy toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has been constrained by Israel's doctrine that there is no Palestinian partner for peace. According to this concept - accepted…
Pity the Arab nation, for its violence
A disease is eating away at the Middle East. It afflicts the Syrians, the Iraqis, the Lebanese, even the Israelis. It is the idea that the only political determinant in…
Lebanon: ripe for resolution or revolution?
Barely had the Lebanese started to recover from the July-August war between Hezbollah and Israel when instability came knocking again, in what seems like the beginning of a campaign to…
Egyptian government aims to pump up NGOs
More money, less problems for aid programsCAIRO: Social Solidarity Minister Ali Moselhi pledged to slash red tape and ramp up cooperation with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) to help needy families, who…
Bloganoia: Are they out to get Kareem or is he just lost in the bureaucratic shuffle?
CAIRO: Looking through Egyptian political blogs over the past two weeks, one particular subject keeps coming up; the detention of blogger and former Al-Azhar University student Abdel Kareem Sulaiman.Allegedly, 'Kareem,'…