Egypt Suez Canal revenue down 1 pct in year to Feb
By Reuters CAIRO: Revenue from Egypt's Suez Canal inched down 1 percent in the year to February, the Egyptian Information Portal website showed on Saturday. Revenue fell to $381.4 million in…
Egypt retreats further from eight-month high
By Reuters CAIRO: Egypt's benchmark index dropped for a second day, retreating further from an eight-month high reached last week when optimism grew that Egypt was recovering from a year…
Egypt looking at energy subsidies to cut deficit
By Patrick Werr and Sherine El Madany / Reuters CAIRO: Egypt is pinning its hopes on natural gas to help it reduce energy subsidies that are eating up 20 percent of…
‘Tank Girl’: A failed, tired exercise in shock tactics
By Mariam Hamdy Currently showing at Misr Gallery in Zamalek is the much anticipated, hugely buzzed about exhibit “Tank Girl” by Nadine Hammam. Art lovers were looking forward to the usually…
‘Tank Gir’: A failed, tired exercise in shock tactics
Currently showing at Misr Gallery in Zamalek is the much anticipated, hugely buzzed about exhibit “Tank Girl” by Nadine Hammam. Art lovers were looking forward to the usually controversial works…
Creating new spaces for Muslim youth in the UK
By Marium Sattar LONDON: While sitting across from me in a café near the British Museum in London, a British Iraqi friend recently told me, "I've lived here all my life…
Japan’s resilience lessons
By Margareta Wahlström NEW YORK: Buried in the coverage of last year’s Great East Japan Earthquake is a success story of which the world should not lose sight, because it…
Carbon emissions’ friendly skies
By José Maria Figueres SAN JOSÉ: It was once said of the battle to fight climate change that there is no silver bullet — there is only silver buckshot. But, while…
What’s wrong with transformational leadership?
By Joseph Nye CAMBRIDGE: This year’s presidential campaign in the United States has been marked by calls from Barack Obama’s would-be Republican challengers for a radical transformation of American foreign policy.…
‘Tank Gir’: A failed, tired exercise in shock tactics
Currently showing at Misr Gallery in Zamalek is the much anticipated, hugely buzzed about exhibit “Tank Girl” by Nadine Hammam. Art lovers were looking forward to the usually controversial works…