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Constitutional amendments to spark worldwide protests on referendum day

CAIRO: As the People's Assembly approved a long list of controversial amendments…

Alexandra Sandels

Alcatel-Lucent continues work on East African submarine cable project

Project to connect eight countries from Sudan to South AfircaCAIRO: Alcatel-Lucent signed…

Ahmed A. Namatalla

Globalisation, or is it globalization?

Buenos Aires, Argentina, was my first tango with globalisation, when I met…

Peter A. Carrigan

Humans leave precious little for other forms of life

As a species, human beings have a major self-control problem. We humans…

Jeffrey D. Sachs

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

Banque Misr meeting approves capital increase proposal

CAIRO: The general meeting of Banque Misr shareholders approved on Thursday the…

Daily News Egypt