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Government considering more liberalization in telecommunications sector

Kamel: international calling licensing postponed to May CAIRO: The government is studying…

Ahmed A. Namatalla

Walk down memory lane: old Egyptian film posters revisited

If watching a film is like having a dream wide awake, I…

Joseph Fahim

Constitutional amendments follow a long history of power centralization

CAIRO: In light of Egypt's history of executively-focused constitutional amendments, President Mubarak's…

Daily News Egypt

Hussein Fahmy inaugurates AUC's student leadership conference

CAIRO: Actor Hussein Fahmy stressed the importance of broadening the limits of…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

INTERVIEW: Host of Al-Jazeera's 'Listening Post' discusses the network, blogging, 9/11, and the US media

Richard Gizbert hosts the weekly The Listening Post on Al-Jazeera English, highlighting…

Deena Douara

No shift in US Mideast policy, says expert

CAIRO: A senior Egyptian journalist says he expects the Bush administration to…

Abdel-Rahman Hussein

US skirts the issue of Egypt's constitutional referendum

CAIRO: The spokesperson for the US State Department has said that Egypt…

Daily News Egypt

Aboul Gheit says Egypt should prepare case against Israeli killings of POWs

CAIRO: Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit questioned the timing of an Israeli…

Yasmine Saleh

Telecom industry critical of government's lack of clarity on int'l calls licensing

CAIRO: Egyptian telecom industry officials have strongly criticized the Ministry of Communication…

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