Youth bear brunt of rising unemployment, says study
CAIRO: As the global financial crisis continues to put a hamper on Arab economies, a Brookings Institute report said that youth in the Arab world have been hit hardest by…
A world ending in water
A pasted moon on the top left corner of a photograph stands out, somewhat in contrast to the rest of the work. But it does the job, pulling into the…
Meg Rosoff: Advertising executive to award-winning author
Last Saturday's Literary Café discussion at the Cairo International Book Fair featured Rehab Bassam, Egyptian blogger and author of "Rice Pudding for Two, conversing with Meg Rosoff, the award-winning American…
Obama and the Arab World: Change?
I happen to come from the Muslim world, and I now know it by heart that America is not our enemy. Bush told us about that when the US invaded…
Four ways out
BERKELEY: When an economy falls into a depression, governments can try four things to return employment to its normal level and production to its "potential level. Call them fiscal policy,…
The one-state solution
TRIPOLI, Libya: The shocking level of the last wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence, which ended with this weekend's cease-fire, reminds us why a final resolution to the so-called Middle East crisis…
Senior officials at ministry of endowments linked to major corruption case
CAIRO: In a notorious corruption case, 25 officials from the Ministry of Religious Endowments were accused of illegally registering nonexistent mosques in the governorates of Giza, Menufiya and El-Beheira and…
Doctors threaten to hold sit-in over 'unfair' treatment
CAIRO: Doctors who say they are being unfairly treated by the Ministry of Health are threatening to hold a sit-in at the Doctors Syndicate.The group of 119 doctors who are…
Islamic Research Center proposes changes to parental rights regulations
CAIRO: The Islamic Research Center sent a new draft law to the People's Assembly (PA), amending divorced parents' custody rights, Sheikh Ismail Abou Haytham, from the office of the secretary…