Stock market stagnation due to seasonal trend, says consultant
CAIRO: Egypt's main index, EGX30, fell by 0.74 percent reaching 3,627.80 points on Thursday as the market continued to stagnate after a series of low turnovers the past week. Egyptian…
Bahrain Shias lament their lack of support
MANAMA: Bahrain's majority Shias are embittered that the outside world has ignored their brutally crushed demands for a greater say in the country's affairs for sectarian reasons and their alleged…
Algerian ruling party holds congress on reforms
ALGIERS: Algerian Prime Minister Ahmed Ouyahia's party will hold a congress Thursday and Friday to discuss political reforms launched by the president after protests and riots swept the country last…
Egypt’s anti-Western future: Rhetoric or reality?
By Ron Gilran and Daniel Nisman Egypt continues to reel from the aftermath of the recent high profile raids against foreign-backed NGO’s by state security forces. Egyptian human rights watchdogs have…
North Korea’s tears
By Ian Buruma HO CHI MINH CITY: Can an entire people go mad? Sometimes it certainly seems so. Images of North Koreans in their hundreds of thousands howling with grief over…
The German hour
By Jean Pisani-Ferry BRUSSELS: A series of developments over the last few weeks have set in motion a downward spiral for the eurozone. Unless officials — especially German officials — act…
Schadenfreude capitalism
By Harold James PRINCETON: The protracted financial and economic crisis discredited first the American model of capitalism, and then the European version. Now it looks as if the Asian approach may…
Islamists, NDP remnants face off in tribally-controlled Qena
CAIRO: Islamist parties face fierce competition from the remnants of the disbanded National Democratic Party (NDP) in the Upper Egyptian province of Qena as voters cast their ballots Wednesday in…
Qaliubiya judges complain of illiteracy as they wait for voters
SHOUBRA EL-KHEIMA: Waiting Wednesday for voter turnout to match the first day of voting, judges supervising the polling stations of Qaliubiya’s Shubra El-Kheima blamed illiteracy and lack of awareness for…
Mubarak trial prosecution says interior ministry uncooperative
CAIRO: The prosecution said Wednesday during the trial of ousted president Hosni Mubarak that the interior ministry and the national security agency were uncooperative, refusing investigators’ requests for official documents…