102 MPs request withdrawal of confidence from finance minister
CAIRO: Over 100 independent members of the People's Assembly, including the Muslim Brotherhood bloc, filed a request to withdraw confidence from Minister of Finance Youssef Boutros Ghaly Sunday, Brotherhood MP…
Regional economies have 'decoupled' from US, Europe
CAIRO: "Our region is proving resilient to uncertainty and volatility in the credit and financial markets of the US and Europe as a result of the US sub-prime and mortgage…
OpenCraft teams up with SugarCRM
CAIRO: The open source software development company OpenCraft recently became a silver partner with SugarCRM, which provides commercial open source customer relationship management (CRM) software for companies of all sizes,…
Al-Jazeera journalist escapes prison sentence
CAIRO: Al-Jazeera journalist Howayda Taha successfully appealed against a six-month prison sentence in a Heliopolis appeals court Monday but failed to have a LE 20,000 fine overturned.Taha was appealing against…
Berlin film fest brings fringe Muslims into focus
BERLIN: People living on the margins of Muslim society, from a heavy metal band in Iraq to transsexual Iranians and a gay Kurdish man in Turkey, managed to get their…
Mad Song challenges perception of reality
Much like the poem that inspired the dance, "Mad Song is an anti-performance, challenging audiences' perceptions of dance and stage performing."Mad Girl's Love Song is a landmark of confessional poetry…
New approach to media content regulation
Last week, the Egyptian Shoura Coucil (The Upper House of Parliament) demanded a review of the media code of ethics to examine the codes that control the content of the…
Working against the problem, not each other
In the years since 9/11, war and terrorism have led to much discussion over whether a clash of civilizations is occurring between the United States and the Muslim world. This…
The fate of two-state solution hangs on Jerusalem
Immediately after last November s Annapolis conference, Israel declared its intention to construct 307 new housing units in the Har Homa settlement in occupied East Jerusalem, in addition to building…
Magdy Mehana, tribute to a journalist
CAIRO: The death of Magdy Mehana, esteemed journalist and presenter, was met with grief by the Egyptian public last Saturday. He was, in the words of one young Egyptian journalist,…