Chronicles of a bourgeoisie foodie: Neighborhood restaurant surprise
There’s an Italian restaurant in Maadi called La Rosa which is a neighborhood restaurant in every sense of the word. Tucked away on a side street only local residents are…
Globalization’s government
By Jeffrey Sachs NEW YORK: We live in an era in which the most important forces affecting every economy are global, not local. What happens “abroad” — in China, India, and…
Bleed the foreigner
By Harold James PRINCETON: Today, the world is threatened with a repeat of the 2008 financial meltdown — but on an even more cataclysmic scale. This time, the epicenter is in…
Big reform in small packages
By Jean Pisani-Ferry BRUSSELS: France, which now holds the presidency of the G-20, has chosen reform of the international monetary system as its main priority for the Cannes summit in November.…
Europe’s high-risk gamble
By Martin Feldstein CAMBRIDGE: The Greek government needs to escape from an otherwise impossible situation. It has an unmanageable level of government debt (150 percent of GDP, rising this year by…
Protesters denounce crackdown on media
CAIRO: Tens of protesters gathered Wednesday in front of the Journalists’ Syndicate, demonstrating against the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' "violation of freedom of speech." "We are here to…
Shenouda presents Marinab church licenses to SCAF
CAIRO: Pope Shenouda presented Thursday all relevant documents and licenses for renovating a church partially burnt down in Marinab last week to the ruling military council and the Cabinet. Coptic…
UNESCO mulls Palestinian membership bid
PARIS: The United Nations' cultural agency has begun to review a draft resolution from the Palestinian delegation for full membership of the body, a UNESCO source said on Wednesday, the…
Experts denounce emergency law extension
CAIRO: Experts denounced the extension of the emergency law, deeming it a violation of human rights in a symposium held at the Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies last Sunday.…
No sign Egypt will lift emergency law before vote: US
CAIRO: Egypt's military rulers on Tuesday assured US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta they will lift a controversial emergency law but gave no sign they will do so before parliamentary elections…