Syriana tackling conduct
CAIRO: Hollywood's fascination with portraying the Arab as bad is nothing new. On the contrary, it has been going on for decades, with films like Laurence of Arabia, True Lies…
Thousands make their way to Salum to view eclipse
CAIRO: Thousands of Egyptians, tourists, astronomers and the Egyptian president, watched Wednesday s total solar eclipse from a prime location, an isolated desert town on the Libyan border, where darkness…
WHO repeats stance on educating the public on bird flu
CAIRO: According to the World Health Organization (WHO), Egypt needs to raise public awareness of bird flu, its causes and prevention. However, despite this claim, there is little information coming…
Road Safety Rules
CAIRO: Driver education is limited to family drivers or well-meaning uncles or near-hysterical parents. Few of those who run off to get their driver's licenses have any idea of what…
Cultivating the food industry
CAIRO: Non-dairy processed food was a LE 3 billion industry last year, with most of this production coming in the form of jams, concentrates, pickles, sugar, sauces and frozen and…
Second Egyptian dies of bird flu
CAIRO: A second Egyptian has died from the bird flu virus, Health Minister Hatem El-Gabali said on Monday. An official from the World Health Organization (WHO) told Reuters the latest…
Egypt threatens to sue U.S. museum over ancient mask
CAIRO: Egypt threatened Tuesday to take legal action against a U.S. museum unless it returns an ancient mask in its collection that the authorities claim was stolen from a warehouse,…
Smuggling illegal migrants in Slovakia
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia: Two men from Ukraine have been arrested in Slovakia after they helped to smuggle a group of 25 illegal migrants, believed to be Egyptians, over the Slovak border,…
Gamal Mubarak strides more into the public's eye
CAIRO: Gamal Mubarak, son of Egypt s president and one of the country's most influential politicians, took a stride further into the public eye this week, presenting himself as a…
Kefaya sees continued stifling of freedoms under anti-terrorism law
CAIRO: As the 25 year-old emergency laws are planning to be lifted by the government, opposition groups, especially Kefaya, have expressed their hesitancy in support such an action. They argue…