Orange Lakes: Cairo's Newest Golf Course
To paraphrase the ghostly voice in Kevin Costner's baseball movie "Field of Dreams , "Build it, and they will come. The principle worked well enough for Costner's Iowa farmer, and…
2008: the year of archaeological restorations
CAIRO: While stunning archaeological revelations are expected to make headlines by the beginning of 2009, archaeology-enthusiasts were let down by unfulfilled promises of exciting excavations made in 2008. What marked…
Egyptian wins Iran's 2008 Book Prize
CAIRO: Egyptian author Farag Hussein Farag won Iran's 2008 Book Prize, for his book "The Fatimide Inscriptions and Writings on the Architectural Monuments. Bibliotheca Alexandrina, which published the book, received…
With a Grain of Salt: Before Fielding Our Candidates
We are a hopeless case. We don't understand the world around us, nor do we try to understand it. Is it reasonable to nominate people to international positions without knowing…
War and peace: pick a side
GLASGOW: Pick a side:"Palestinians do not deserve a State and are incapable of governing themselves. They must be managed, imprisoned or exiled. Or"The state of Israel is a hydra-headed monster,…
The Marx Renaissance
PRINCETON: Karl Marx has returned, if not quite from the grave then from history's dustbin. German Finance Minister Peer Steinbrück recently said that Marx's answers "may not be irrelevant to…
Editorial: Egypt 2008: Another lost child
Just when I thought it couldn't get worse, an infuriating court verdict wraps up the hasty trial of what I vote to be the most tragic incident of 2008: the…
Egypt's Coptic pope bans phone confessions
CAIRO, December 26, 2008 (AFP) - Egypt s Coptic pope has banned the faithful from confessing their sins to priests over the telephone because intelligence agents might be listening in,…
Egypt's oversees judges can't vote
CAIRO: Although several rights organization have pledged to monitor the upcoming elections of the Egyptian Judges' Club, almost 2,000 Egyptian judges, who are employed in neighboring Arab countries, will not…
Abou-Mosallam nears Egyptian League comeback
CAIRO: Strasbourg full-back Ahmed Abou-Mosallam said that he received two offers to return to the Egyptian Premier League in January s transfer window. There are also two Egyptian offers, but…