Egypt's first PPP venture: A $200 mln wastewater facility
CAIRO: The financial procedures for the first Public-Private Partnership in Egypt were completed late last week, announced the Ministry of Finance and the International Finance Corporation, the lead transaction advisor…
Egypt index adds 2.5 pct, blue chips shine
CAIRO: Egypt's main index shrugged off a Sunday slump to gain 2.5 percent on the back of further gains in blue chips including Orascom Telecom (OT), which added 3.4 percent.…
Scorcese, DiCaprio explore new ground in gothic thriller
Legendary US director Martin Scorsese and his favorite actor Leonardo DiCaprio said Friday they took their collaboration to new heights for the gothic thriller "Shutter Island. The Oscar-winning director who…
US book publishers smiling again as Kindle rivals emerge
Us book publishers are smiling again, after years of watching digital versions of their titles sell for below what they thought they were worth.A host of rivals to the market-dominating…
A riverside street theater fest
Along the walkway to the Sawy Culture Wheel's River Hall where the Street Theater Festival was to unfold over the course of the entire Saturday, were cut-out images of Cairene…
Segregation blues
JERUSALEM: I spent the day in Nazareth recently, doing a story about Israeli Arabs in hi-tech, and when I got in the car with the (Jewish) photographer to leave, I…
No time to put climate science on ice
NAIROBI: The science of climate change has been on the defensive in recent weeks, owing to an error that dramatically overstated the rate at which the Himalayan glaciers could disappear.…
Ukrainian democracy and its cynics
MOSCOW - "A pox on both your houses may be an appropriate individual response to frustration with the political candidates on offer in an election. But it is a dangerous…
The future of Islam and democracy in Iran
Despite the systematic efforts of many commentators and media outlets to represent what is happening in Iran as a wholesale revolt against everything the Islamic Republic stands for, a sober…