Teen saga ‘Hunger Games’ hits big screen
By Anne Chaon / AFP Post-apocalyptic teen movie "The Hunger Games," adapted from a bestselling fight-to-the-death novel, hits screens worldwide this week in one of the most-anticipated box office releases of…
Archival materials shed light on archaeology’s golden age
By Maurice Chammah In one of the photographs presented by Christopher Naunton in his lecture at the British Council on Monday evening, clouds of dust hang over dozens of Egyptian laborers,…
Egypt military says lost contact with border patrol
By AFP CAIRO: Egypt's military has lost contact with a patrol near the frontier with Sudan and is conducting a search in coordination with neighboring countries, the official MENA news…
Let’s talk about sax, baby
By Chitra Kalyani It's the perfect weather for hommos el-sham along the Nile. The Egyptian delicacy keeps you warm while music issuing from the Sawy Culture Wheel warms the heart. They…
Christian family on eviction from Alexandria hometown
By Aya Batrawy / AP CAIRO: Nabil Girgis, a Coptic Christian, lived for nearly two decades in the Egyptian town of Amreya, raising his children and managing a modest business. Those…
New broom sweeps vacuum cleaner
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: Now that the lesser leagues are sorted, it’s time for the big boys to make hay. As Charles de Gaulle put it: In order to become the…
Iraqi Libya
By Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou GENEVA: As post-revolution Libya looks ahead, Iraq looms as a perilous example. After 42 years of dictatorship, Libya, like Iraq in 2003 after the fall of Saddam…
Egypt loses LE 4 bln to illicit cigarette trade
By Reem Abdellatif CAIRO: Egypt is losing LE 4 billion (about $662 million) annually due to a “shocking surge” in the trade of illicit cigarettes with a rapidly increasing number of…
Captured Europe
By Daron Acemoğlu WASHINGTON, DC: Europe’s policy elite — the people who call the shots at the national and eurozone level — are in serious trouble. They have mismanaged their way…
Developing nations to name two candidates for World Bank
By Lesley Wroughton / Reuters WASHINGTON: Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and former Colombian Finance Minister Jose Antonio Ocampo are set to be nominated to lead the World Bank, sources with…