ONE ON ONE: HC's Hussein Choucri says Almarai deal positive for FDI
CAIRO: The Saudi-owned Almarai Company has concluded a deal to acquire 100 percent of Beyti, an Egyptian Agro-Industrial Company. The acquisition, valued at LE 645 million, went through in defiance…
Enterprise Egypt: A promising start for SMEs
CAIRO: Egypt launched Wednesday the country's first center dedicated to promoting entrepreneurship and supporting small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Enterprise Egypt, or Bedayah as it will be known in Arabic…
Oscars doubling best picture nominees to 10
The race for the best picture Oscar at next year's Academy Awards will feature a bumper crop of 10 films after organizers announced they were doubling the number of nominees…
The songs remain the same
Amid the jeering, booing and applause that greeted the winners of Cannes Film Festival's last edition in May, a man in a black suit, red shirt, white sneakers and groovy…
The return of the immigrant
American journalist and author Lucette Lagnado said she still sees the charm in the city that her father never stopped calling home.The Cairo-born Lagnado returned to Egypt for the first…
Culture Cabaret revives Cairo's 50s' nightclub scene
If someone were to set foot in a cabaret today, it would probably be for a cheap night out, a bachelor party or a desperate search for a one-night stand;…
Iran has lost the battle of global public opinion
The current political crisis in Iran and the ban on foreign media has proved that modern technology is challenging the monopoly of information management by the state. Today, modern technology…
Netanyahu's Useless Demand
HAIFA: Ever since the Six Day War of June 1967, a small number of Israelis, not all on the left, supported the idea of two states as a solution to…
Some publics are open to a new approach in Mideast
WASHINGTON, DC: As President Obama shifts into a round of White House meetings with leaders from Israel, the Palestinian Authority and the Arab world, and looks for footholds that let…