Energy experts urge Egypt to capitalize on growing demand for gas
CAIRO: Industry insiders at the fifth annual InterGas conference Wednesday expected a growth in demand for gas and highlighted the potential for investments in this sector in Egypt, underlining the…
Egypt shares fall, Telecom Egypt results welcomed
CAIRO: Telecom Egypt surprised the market on Thursday with a 72 percent rise in net profit for the first quarter, helping its shares record a modest gain while shares elsewhere…
Egypt's 4.3 pct economic growth 'a breakthrough,' says Mohieldin
CAIRO: Egypt's economy grew by 4.3 percent in the third quarter of the current fiscal year, an unexpected development that Investment Minister Mahmoud Mohieldin called "a breakthrough. Economists were surprised…
A tree in the desert: An interview with Egyptian choreographer Karima Mansour
With the establishment of MAAT for Contemporary Dance in 1999, Karima Mansour became the founder of the first independent dance company in Egypt's history. One of the most established choreographers…
Sherry Jones speaks out about controversial 'Jewel of Medina'
A year before the release of her divisive fiction about the relationship between Prophet Mohamed and his wife Aisha, author Sherry Jones found herself in the middle of a media…
No jewels in this Medina
Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with! If only. If only Nabokov had penned "The Jewel of Medina, the writer's words in his supposedly inferior second language…
Cyprus's Last Best Chance
NICOSIA: It is tempting to see the results of the recent parliamentary elections in northern Cyprus as a blow for the peace process. Voters in the Turkish Cypriot north rejected…
Voter education improves Indonesian women's political impact
JAKARTA: Looking at the percentage of women who competed for national parliamentary seats in Indonesia s April 2009 election - 35.25 percent of 11,301 candidates - one can conclude that…
The Spring of the Zombies
NEW YORK: As spring comes to America, optimists are seeing "green sprouts of recovery from the financial crisis and recession. The world is far different from what it was last…