IMF chief says world back from financial ‘abyss’
By AFP NEW DELHI: IMF chief Christine Lagarde said Tuesday the global economy has moved back from the "abyss" but that there were still serious weakness in the world financial…
Military police clashes with protesters, martyrs’ families in Alexandria
By Abdel Rahman Youssef ALEXANDRIA: Army forces clashed Tuesday with protesters and families of martyrs attending the trial of police officers accused of killing Jan. 25 protesters in Alexandria. Scuffles broke…
Court hands policemen suspended sentences for killing protesters
By AP CAIRO: An Egyptian court has given suspended, one-year sentences to 11 policemen accused of killing 22 protesters and wounding 44 others in Hadayeq El-Qobba during last year's uprising.…
Cairo Symphony Orchestra fails, and then succeeds
By Maurice Chammah On Saturday evening, the Cairo Symphony Orchestra began their regular season concert with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Overture to The Impresario. Conductor Andreas Spörri led the orchestra through a…
Reclaiming the identity of the Syrian
By Marie-Jeanne Berger Egyptian art lovers are being offered a rare glimpse at contemporary Syrian art in the exhibition currently showing at Mashrabia Gallery. With little sign of abating, clashes between…
Israel and the Muslim Brotherhood: Facing the bittersweet reality
By Alon Ben-Meir NEW YORK: Since the fall of the Mubarak regime, the conventional wisdom in Israel has suggested that the emergence of an Islamist government in Egypt would necessarily be…
The bailout bias
By Leszek Balcerowicz WARSAW: The seemingly never-ending debate over the eurozone’s fiscal problems has focused excessively on official bailouts, in particular the proposed purchase of government bonds on a massive scale…
Intelligent urban design
By Esther Dyson NEW YORK: Two months ago, I was introduced to a start-up called CityMart, a for-profit marketplace dedicated to helping vendors and city managers to find one another —…
The jury is still out
By Mamdouh G. Salameh In 2006, American oil company Noble Energy of Houston and Israeli company Ratio Oil Exploration received a license to explore "Leviathan", a deep-water gas field in the…
Copts gather from across Egypt to see off Pope Shenouda
By Samer al-Atrush / AFP CAIRO: They came from across Egypt, the poor, old women in black, young tattooed men in their rough work clothes, clamoring to get inside the cathedral…