Indonesians, Lebanese protest Egypt's Gaza wall
JAKARTA: More than 200 Indonesian Muslims protested in Jakarta Sunday against an underground wall being built to block a network of tunnels crossing Egypt s border with the Gaza Strip.Meanwhile…
MB elects new supreme guide
CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood elected a new supreme guide, Mohamed Badea' Sami, to head the group's Guidance Office, which is their highest authority.Badea' will be succeeding Mohamed Mahdi Akef, who…
Citadel plans $400 mln for East Africa
CAIRO: Citadel Capital plans to invest up to $400 million in East Africa, the private equity firm said in a statement Sunday. The firm said it will be eyeing investment…
Critics' choose The Hurt Locker' as best picture
Iraq war drama The Hurt Locker and its director took top honors at the Critics Choice Awards, while Quentin Tarantino s Inglourious Basterds and James Cameron s Avatar won the…
A Syrian haven for Christian spirituality
BONN: Atop a mountain in the Syrian heartland lies a monastery where the message of Christian-Muslim unity is alive and well.Cooled by eastern-blowing winds from the mountains dividing Lebanon and…
Why big banks will get bigger
FLORENCE: Severe banking crises bring painful and long-lasting disruptions. But they also lead to surprises. The lessons learned in the immediate aftermath bear little relationship to the eventual outcome. There…
Cairo's plan B
No more ad hoc arrangements. This is the message Egypt is sending to Hamas and the other relevant parties by setting up a fortified barrier along Egypt s border with…
Shoddy organization taints Alexandria's solar eclipse sighting
At 7 am this past Friday, a few astronomy enthusiasts gathered at the plaza of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina to watch the first solar eclipse of the year. They were waiting…
Activists puzzled by Nagaa Hammadi arrest
CAIRO: Members of a group of activists arrested while en route to pay condolences to relatives of Coptic Christians murdered outside a church in Nagaa Hammadi on Jan. 6 say…
Engineers protest against ministry's refusal to organize general assembly
CAIRO: The Engineers Against Receivership, a group formed to end government control over the syndicate, protested on Tuesday in front of the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation against the…