INTERVIEW: Kuwait’s KFIC restructures debt
By Ahmed Hagagy / Reuters KUWAIT: Kuwait's Finance & Investment Co. has completed a restructuring to partially deal with the 158 million dinar ($567.22 million) debt it had built up by…
Egypt’s GASC says buys 115,000 T US wheat
By Sherine El Madany / Reuters CAIRO: Egypt, the world's largest wheat importer, has bought 115,000 tons of US soft red winter wheat for May 21-31 shipment on a free on…
67 pct of Egypt employees expect a raise in the next 12 months, says poll
CAIRO: Forty-three percent of employees in Egypt have been unhappy with their last pay rise, and 67 percent expect to receive a raise in the coming year, a recent poll…
Fishing for meaning in a play of patriotism and immigration
By Tom Dale “If I Weren't Egyptian” is a play about a young man who wants to emigrate to Italy, a middle aged German-speaking belly-dancer, a silent old gentleman who has…
The Persian Knot
By Joschka Fischer BERLIN: The negotiations between Iran and the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council, plus Germany, over Iran’s nuclear program are entering a new, and probably…
What should the World Bank do?
By José Antonio Ocampo NEW YORK: I have been honored by World Bank directors representing developing countries and Russia to be selected as one of two developing-country candidates to become the…
Kenyan youth demanding change
By Kennedy Kachwanya Whenever I think of the youth issues, I remember: "Our youth are not failing the system; the system is failing our youth. Ironically, the very youth who are…
Judge: 3,200-year-old mummy mask can stay in US
By AP ST. LOUIS: A judge says a 3,200-year-old Egyptian mummy mask at the center of an international dispute will remain in a US museum. The US government sought to…
Dispute over Constituent Assembly reaches stalemate
By Heba Hesham CAIRO: While members of the Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting the constitution believe abiding by Al-Azhar’s document would solve the controversy over the assembly's make-up, members who have…
Egypt sends Christian student to jail for insulting Islam
By Ahmed Tolba, Mohamed Abdellah and Yasmine Saleh / Reuters CAIRO: An Egyptian court on Wednesday sentenced a 17-year-old Christian boy to three years in jail for publishing cartoons on…