Investors, experts to meet at Cityscape real estate summit
CAIRO: Cityscape Next Move is gearing up to host regional and international experts on emerging market investment at the Egypt Real Estate Summit, which is taking place Feb. 20-23 at…
Clashes rage through the night in Cairo
CAIRO: Protesters and police clashed again overnight outside Cairo's security headquarters in the wake of deadly football violence and amid calls by activists for civil disobedience in Egypt. Police fired…
US seeks ‘clarification’ on Egypt activist trials
WASHINGTON: The United States demanded "clarification" Sunday over Cairo's apparent plans to put dozens of pro-democracy activists, including 19 Americans, on trial over charges of illegal funding of aid groups.…
Ex-regime’s Tora inmates to be separated, Mubarak to join them, says TV report
CAIRO: Egypt's interior minister has ordered Cairo's Tora prison hospital to make preparations to receive former President Hosni Mubarak, who has till now been held in a military hospital while…
OP-ED: What now? Don’t bite the hands that feed
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: The irony of it. What President Obama failed to do in three years, Field Marshall Tantawi achieved in half an hour: Uniting the disparate Democrats and Republicans…
Sporadic clashes resume around interior ministry despite calls for truce
CAIRO: A number of truce initiatives succeeded to temporarily stop the violence near the Ministry of Interior (MOI) as sporadic clashes continued on Sunday. A tense calm earlier in the…
Some see Turkey as a useful model for new Arab regimes
By Michel Sailhan / AFP ISTANBUL: For many in the Arab world, Turkey embodies something of an elusive ideal: an Islamist-based democracy with a strong economy. A survey published Thursday by…
US women call Egypt captors ‘kind’
CAIRO: Their kidnappers gave them tea and dried fruit, and talked about religion and tribal rights. The California women were allowed to bring their Egyptian tour guide with them. One…
Egypt rioting depressingly familiar for football
By Graham Dunbar and John Leicester / AP LAUSANNE, Switzerland: The riots that killed 74 people in Egypt were sickeningly familiar for football: fans storming the pitch, fighting and being stampeded…
Campaign calls on Egyptians to boycott army products
CAIRO: In protest of the ongoing clashes between security forces and protesters, which have intensified demands for an immediate end to military rule, Egyptian activists have called for a national…