4-bank consortium covers $1.05 billion loan
CAIRO: Four Egyptian banks formed a consortium to cover a syndicate loan…
Human rights come calling
What are human rights? is a question that the Cairo Human Rights…
Listen to Me!
SAN FRANCISCO: Last week, I wrote a 140-character hotel review on Twitter:…
Downgrading the 2009 H1N1 influenza
BERKELEY, California: Although the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic appears to have…
Of bells and minarets
PARIS: When Jerusalem was conquered in 635 AD, the second caliph Omar…
Missing DNA can promote childhood obesity: study
Some children get severely obese because they lack particular chunks of DNA,…
Snuba mixes snorkeling and scuba
Breathing underwater was a strange sensation. It was even stranger because I…
Violence against women is not a tenet of Islam
GLENDALE HEIGHTS, Illinois: Listening to the radio one day, I was shocked…
A velvet climate revolution?
BUDAPEST: In the discussions now underway in Copenhagen, the fate of Earth's…
A foot in both cultures
NEW YORK: The American dream lured El-Sayed El-Deeb to New York City…