Egypt says Israel stalling on prisoner swap
CAIRO: Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit accused Israel on Sunday of stalling on a prisoner swap with Hamas for a captured Israeli soldier by refusing to free certain Palestinian prisoners.…
Egypt envoy to return to Algiers after compensation, says report
CAIRO: Egypt will return its ambassador to Algeria who was recalled last month over a bitter football row only if it receives compensation for vandalized Egyptian property, a newspaper reported…
Lebanon's Solidere unit eyes Saudi, Montenegro
CAIRO: Solidere International, a real estate firm part owned by Lebanon s Solidere, is eyeing land in Saudi Arabia and Montenegro, and aims to sell projects to investors in 2010,…
Arab Cotton Ginning: Towards vertical integration
CAIRO: Arab Cotton Ginning Company (ACGC), currently identified as an integrated textiles group, detailed its restructuring plans on Sunday, which will see it transform into a holding company specialized in…
Antúnez Roca presents the ugly art
Art does not have to be pretty, at least not according to Marcel-Lí Antúnez Roca. The visiting artist from Spain formulates art in a curious mix of animal, man and…
Man, machine, and in between
TÜBINGEN, GERMANY: We are so surrounded by gadgetry nowadays that it is sometimes hard to tell where devices end and people begin. From computers and scanners to mobile devices, an…
Time for a post-American Europe
PARIS: As Barack Obama arrives in Sweden to collect his Nobel Prize, the celebrations expose an awful truth: Europe's admiration for its ideal of an American president is not reciprocated.…
No more walls
JERUSALEM: There is an extraordinary photo of East and West Berliners standing on the remains of the Berlin Wall on 10 November 1989, carrying a banner which reads in English…
UNESCO chief on reconciliatory Cairo visit
CAIRO: UNESCO chief Irina Bokova reached out to the Arab world during a Cairo visit on Monday aimed at easing tensions with the Egyptian rival she beat for the organization…
Movement calls for forming committee to fight sectarian violence
CAIRO: Following what they described " an unprecedented escalation in sectarian violence, the Egyptians Against Religious Discrimination (MARED) public movement called for establishing a public committee advocating national unity. The…