Al-Shater submits candidacy docs with thousands of Brotherhood supporters
By Mai Shams El-Din CAIRO: Former deputy supreme guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Khairat Al-Shater submitted on Thursday the candidacy application for the presidential elections as thousands of supporters gathered to…
No set timeline to conclude Egypt loan talks: IMF
By Reem Abdellatif WASHINGTON: The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday there was no fixed timeline for concluding loan talks with Egypt and insisted that any IMF financing package have the…
One on One with Abu Dhabi Fest founder Hoda Kanoo
By Joseph Fahim Of the various cultural festivals I’ve covered and attended over the years in the region, none has managed to offer the pure delight I experienced at the Abu…
Whose World Bank?
By Joseph E. Stiglitz NEW YORK: US President Barack Obama’s nomination of Jim Yong Kim for the presidency of the World Bank has been well received — and rightly so, especially…
The energy deficit
By Michael Spence MILAN: I have been surprised by the recent coverage in the American press of gasoline prices and politics. Political pundits agree that presidential approval ratings are highly correlated…
Healing the sick man of South Asia
By Michael Spence LAHORE: Pakistan is undergoing three transitions simultaneously. How they unfold matters not only for Pakistan, but also for much of the Muslim world, particularly as the Arab Spring…
Mr Successful and SCAF
By Omar El Sabh CAIRO: Once more the Muslim Brotherhood’s Guidance Bureau has presented Egyptian politics with a black box by fielding their business tycoon Khairat Al Shater in the presidential…
Muslim Brotherhood launches US diplomatic push
By Andrew Quinn / Reuters WASHINGTON: With PowerPoint presentations and political promises, Egypt's influential Muslim Brotherhood made its US diplomatic debut this week hoping to persuade Washington that the Islamist group…
German author Grass says Israel endangers world peace
By Gareth Jones/Reuters Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass has described Israel as a threat to world peace and said it must not be allowed to launch military strikes against Iran,…
Yields rise at Egyptian 182-day T-bill auction
By Mohamed Samir / Reuters CAIRO: The average yield on 182-day Egyptian treasury bills inched up at an auction on Thursday and the central bank sold all the bills it was…