In Egypt, you're better off Jewish than Bahai
CAIRO: At the heart of every bureaucratic function of government in Egypt is the National Identity card. Whether access to education, employment, financial services, health care or assorted government dealings…
UN's WFP positively impacting Egypt
CAIRO: A delegation of executive board members from the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) headquarters in Rome spent a week in Egypt to evaluate the aid agency's projects in…
The EU and Turkey are in a wrestling match, where neither side can afford to let go
The Istanbul professor who is a leading character in "Bliss, a lyrical novel by Zulfu Livaneli, imagines the Turkish intellectual as an acrobat swinging through the air. He lets go…
Terrorists are criminals, not Muslim activists
CAMBRIDGE, UK: The rise of extremism in the Muslim world has led to the widespread view of Islam as a religion of violence, retribution and war. This is in complete…
The pluses of uncovering pornography
A Sydney-based Muslim cleric, Sheikh Hilaly, recently made headlines in Australia when he publicly reflected that immodest women invite rape because they are like "uncovered meat. More unfortunate still was…
Cairo International Film Festival: Today's highlights
The Road (China)The ticket controller Li is a little ray of sunshine to the passengers of the rural bus line, for with every ticket she also sells a smile, which…
Insults, foul language traded at film festival conference
CAIRO: A question about the involvement of businessman Naguib Sawiris in the funding of the Egyptian film Istughomaya ("Hide and Seek ) torpedoed the film's premiere into a cussing session…
Losing the game of "Hide & Seek"
Last Egyptian competition film is a major disappointmentCAIRO: First touted as the winning horse of the Golden Pyramid race, Egyptian director Emad El-Bahhat s feature film Hide & Seek might…
Lost and Found in Cairo
CAIRO: The life of a rabbit in reverse. Cairo sunsets. The haunting 1920s music of Na'ima Al-Misriyya. A distressed man wandering through Zurich.In most galleries, these disparate images would never…
Egyptian textiles challenged by China and Turkey
Local textile industry faces tough competition for slice of European marketCAIRO: Egyptian textiles are on the right track in penetrating the European market, but must find a way past Chinese…
