MPs push for no-confidence vote as PA continues to slam gov’t report
By Safaa Abdoun CAIRO: The People’s Assembly (PA) criticized the government’s first annual report for its lack of vision and plan during the transitional period and its failure to propose urgent…
Abol Fotoh struggles to keep focus on platform and away from voter polarization
By Sarah El Sirgany CAIRO: In a continuously changing political scene, presidential candidate Abdel Moneim Abol Fotoh struggles to keep the focus on his electoral program. He condemns the polarization that’s…
MB presidential hopeful Al-Shater launches ‘Renaissance Project’
By Mai Shams El-Din CAIRO: Former deputy supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood group and presidential hopeful Khairat Al-Shater outlined on Monday his presidential platform with a campaign titled "Egypt's Renaissance:…
One-on-one with Oscar-winning writer Sir Ronald Harwood
By Joseph Fahim It’s not every day that you watch a Royal Opera House production in the Arab world, let alone a gala production that has only been staged twice before,…
Sinai spring? Not really
By Normand St. Pierre The Sinai Peninsula is beautiful, blessed by wonderful beaches, high-reaching mountains, a desert that changes color with the moving sun, and natural resources aplenty. It is also…
The internationalization of Tahrir Square
By Karim Kasim In the last week of July, the United Nations held its High Level Meeting on Youth as part of the closing of the International Year of Youth 2011…
Obama’s blunder at the bank
By Jagdish Bhagwati NEW YORK: The selection of a successor to Robert Zoellick as President of the World Bank was supposed to initiate a new era of open meritocratic competition, breaking…
Abdul Sattar Edhi: a beacon of hope in Pakistan
By Zeeshan Suhail ISLAMABAD: At the request of the Prime Minister, the government of Pakistan submitted an official nomination to the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize Committee for a Pakistani humanitarian, Abdul…
Greek lender EFG to sell Turkish arm to Kuwait
By Dinesh Nair / Reuters DUBAI: EFG Eurobank will sell its Turkish arm to Kuwait's Burgan Bank in a $355 million deal which will help shore up the struggling Greek lender's…
Egypt sells 3- and 5-year bonds worth LE 3.5 bln
By Reuters CAIRO: Egypt's central bank said it sold LE 3.5 billion ($579.8 million) in three and five-year bonds on Monday, the same amount it had offered. It sold LE…