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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
"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…