Special Euromoney Coverage: Empowering Egyptian consumers key to sustaining growth
CAIRO: Perhaps in an effort to recognize that the consumer is, in many ways, the engine of the economy, EFG-Hermes hosted a workshop entitled "Growth, Inflation and the Egyptian Consumer.…
Film by Wayne Wang premieres on YouTube for free
Is there room among the pratfalls and bedroom tirades of YouTube for an experimental, full-length film?On Friday, the director Wayne Wang will premiere his movie "The Princess of Nebraska on…
'Disgrace' scoops Black Pearl at Abu Dhabi film fest
Disgrace, a searing drama set in post-apartheid South Africa, scooped the Black Pearl award for best picture at the climax on Sunday of the Middle East International Film Festival.The movie,…
The joyful predictability of silent "Butterfly"
Scratchy cabaret tunes competing with the incessant chatter of the filmstrip, sepia-toned light casting a parchment-colored glow over angular, art nouveau backdrops, captions flitting below the oriental figures jittering across…
US election Watch
Is it over? With more than two weeks to go before Americans go to the polls on Nov. 4, do we already know the result? Could be. Democrat Barack Obama…
Asian alternatives to the G7 bank bailout
The trillion-dollar commitments made so far by governments, with the exception of Britain's, have been biased toward restoring market confidence instead of healing the core of what ails banks. So…
For foreign students, AUC is not what it used to be
The American University in Cairo's (AUC) recently built campus in New Cairo has provided Egyptian students the ability to have a genuine "American university experience in Egypt. In doing so,…
Nobel Injustice
SINGAPORE: Martti Ahtisaari is a great man. He deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for his life work. But it was a mistake for the Norwegian Nobel Committee to cite his…
Hard Talk: Egypt's Haphazard Choice of Ministers
A mix of confusion and indifference was the main characteristic of the Egyptian government s handling of the global financial crisis before Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak s meeting with economic…
Rights groups demand public prosecution clampdown on torture
CAIRO: Eighteen Egyptian human rights groups on Sunday blamed the abdication by the public prosecution office of its role in combating torture and police transgressions, for the increasing rate of…
