Egypt activists hail Arab Nobel prize winner
CAIRO: Egyptian cyber dissidents who were touted as Nobel Peace Prize candidates, on Friday congratulated the Yemeni activist who shared the honor with two Liberians for her "well deserved win."…
Arab Spring activists observing Poland’s election
WARSAW: Arab Spring activists from Tunisia, Egypt and Libya — in Poland to watch and learn from parliamentary elections here — say free ballots in their own nations will be…
Jobs and his celebrity: A love-hate relationship
By Jocelyn Noveck / AP It was the 1980s, relatively early in his career, and Steve Jobs was traveling in Japan. In a hotel lobby, a gaggle of girls came up…
Bad bet costs Qatar $1 billion in gas tanker refits
LONDON/NEW YORK: Qatar made a billion dollar error when it built its liquefied natural gas shipping fleet in the last decade, and now consumers may have to pay for the…
Education ministry, UNESCO honor teachers amid nationwide strikes
By Rana Muhammad Taha CAIRO: As teachers across the country await a timetable for meeting their demands, the Ministry of Education, in coordination with UNESCO, celebrated World Teachers Day on Wednesday,…
Journalists, bloggers recount personal experience of Egypt’s revolution
MILAN: The personal stories of Egypt’s 18-day uprising is the focus of a new book “I Diari Della Rivoluzione” (Diaries of the Revolution), launched in Italy this week. The book…
Egypt activist hails Arab Nobel prize winner
CAIRO: Egyptian cyber activist Wael Ghonim, who was touted as a Nobel Peace Prize candidate, on Friday congratulated the Yemeni activist who shared the honor with two Liberians for…
Visa, Google partner on mobile payment adoption
CAIRO: Google was granted a worldwide license to Visa payWave, a Near Field Communication (NFC) based payment technology, the firm said in a statement. Visa payWave enables consumers to make…
Egypt liberals end electoral pact with Islamists
CAIRO: Egypt's leading liberal party Al-Wafd has scrapped an electoral alliance with the Muslim Brotherhood, the country's largest political force, because it wants to field more candidates than the tie-up…
Buttered Up: Coconut milk mussels and unlikely flavors
There's an odd story recanted to me that goes like this: A four year old girl, upon returning to Cairo and being invited along with her parents to her relative's…