Inspecting inflation, as IMF warns against reducing interest rates

CAIRO: Egypt has achieved a remarkable turnaround in its monetary situation. Until a few years ago, the state of the pound, controlled and overvalued by the government, made imports difficult…

Waleed Khalil Rasromani

Berlusconi slams Italian arrests over alleged CIA kidnapping of Egyptian cleric

Reuters ROME: Ex-Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who lost power in April elections, attacked Italian magistrates on Wednesday for chasing after CIA agents and Italian spies over the alleged kidnap of…

Daily News Egypt

Arab states to meet in Cairo on Mideast violence

ReutersCAIRO: Arab governments agreed to send their foreign ministers to Cairo for an emergency meeting on Saturday to discuss Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the Palestinian territories, the Arab League…

Jonathan Wright

Onslaught against Lebanon continues, 52 civilians killed

Egypt, Hariri hold emergency talks in bid to end crisisBEIRUT: Israel struck Beirut airport and blockaded Lebanese ports on Thursday, expanding reprisals that have killed 52 civilians in Lebanon since…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

President's intervention greeted with mixed reactions

Violence escalates between Israel, Palestine and Lebanon; rebel priest provokes censureCAIRO: The local media has provided different takes on the president s intervention in amending the new press law; some…

Sarah El Sirgany

Palestinians stranded at Rafah border assisted, says Red Crescent

CAIRO: The Red Crescent Society in Egypt has denied reports that four Palestinians stranded on the Egyptian side of the Rafah border crossing with the Gaza Strip had died as…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Community reacts to the newest stand-off between the media and the government

CAIRO: During President Hosni Mubarak's reelection campaign - in what was the first-ever, multi-candidate presidential election - he promised to increase the freedom of the press and end all jail…

Ahmad Aboul-Wafa

Arabic news on the Web

Maktoob.com's partnership with BBC part of growth strategyCAIRO: Maktoob.com, the largest Arab online community headquartered in Jordan, has recently announced that it has partnered with the BBC, as part of…

Najla Moussa

Matters of the harp

Manal Mohie El-Din puts the virtues of the harp on displayCAIRO: How apt that the instrument which owes its very existence to Egypt should still find a home here. This…

Daily News Egypt

"Halim" brings together two iconic legends

Ahmed Zaki and Abdel Halim Hafez share the silver screenHalimDirector: Sherif ArafaWriter: Mahfouz Abdel RahmanActors: Ahmed Zaki, Haytham Ahmed Zaki, Sulaf Fawakhergi, Mona Zaki and Ezzat Abu OufCAIRO: As the…

Sarah El Sirgany