22 pct of Egyptian companies planning new hires, finds survey
CAIRO: Twenty-two percent of Egyptian employers say they will definitely hire new employees in the next three months and 29 percent say they will probably do so, according to a…
Dispatches from Berlin: Ups and downs at the film festival
The mood has been generally downbeat in old Berlin. As the sun continues to boycott the German capital, more cinematic bombs continue to bombard critics.Despair has mostly been the defining…
DNA testing reveals mystery of Tutankhamen's early death
CAIRO: A 3,000-year-old cold case is now closed. King Tut was not murdered, according to head of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass.In a press conference Wednesday, Hawass revealed…
Build a partnership for peace, right here in America
WASHINGTON, DC: With the turbulence surrounding diplomacy and the Middle East peace process, it is more urgent than ever for civil society to unite around the obvious reality that a…
Haiti and the Limits of Generosity
MELBOURNE - All over the world, people have responded generously to the devastating earthquake that struck Haiti. In just three days, more than a million Americans had donated $10 with…
The campaign against the New Israel Fund
JERUSALEM: Last Saturday night, tens of impassioned right-wing activists dressed as Hamas members gathered outside the home of former MK and New Israel Fund (NIF) Chairwoman Naomi Chazan and shouted…
The Kingdom and the Afghan chaos
LONDON: In his quest to stabilize his country, Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, dressed in white robes, arrived in Mecca on what can only be called a diplomatic pilgrimage. Although Karzai…
Slums and their dwellers: Finding solutions (Part 2)
CAIRO: Loza Gamal, 24, along with the residents of Establ Antar, were recently relocated to Sixth of October City to live in housing projects offered to the government by telecom…
Egypt's swine flu cases surpass 16,000
CAIRO: The Ministry of Health has announced that the number of swine flu cases in Egypt has reached 16,053, out of which 268 have died since the A(H1N1) virus first…
Human Rights Council's Egypt review reveals UN political alignments
CAIRO: The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) examined Egypt's human rights record Wednesday, in a process which revealed the influence of political alignments within the UN body.Egypt's allies dominated…
