Barclays renovates "Kafret Nassar" health unit
CAIRO: Just four month following the signing of the memorandum of understanding (MoU), Barclays Bank Egypt has inaugurated the primary health unit in Kafret Nassar , Aug. 8, after having…
Egypt, Saudi Arabia to combine electricity systems
CAIRO: According to Ash-Sharq Al-Awsat, a source close to the Saudi Ministry of Water and Electricity has revealed to the regional paper that the Saudi and Egyptian governments will sign…
Federation of Egyptian Industries rejects calls to boycott Israel
Opinions split on cutting trade relations, QIZ in the balanceCAIRO: The Federation of Egyptian Industries (FEI) board has rejected calls to join a boycott on trade with Israel because of…
Families of missing Egyptian students suspect they abandoned education to live and work in the U.S.
Associated PressCAIRO: Anxious families of some of 11 Egyptians who failed to show up for studies at an American university said Thursday that the students may have decided to try…
Celebrity wedding
ŠΘ###Many famous actors attended the fun wedding party, here, Merna El Mohendis and the bride##Phototography by Hasan IbrahimThe newlyweds
Digitizing our cultural and natural heritage
Cultnat has taken on the task of archiving the country s rich pastCAIRO: The center for documentation of cultural and natural heritage, Cultnat (combining the two words culture and nature…
Three of 11 missing Egyptian students in U.S. officials' custody
Associated PressMINNEAPOLIS, U.S.: Three Egyptian students, sought along with eight others who failed to show up for an exchange program in Montana, were taken into custody on Wednesday, authorities said.Eslam…
Egypt's Nobel prize winning writer Mahfuz in hospital
Agence France-PresseCAIRO: World renowned Egyptian writer Nagib Mahfuz, who won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1988, has been admitted to hospital, a hospital official said Thursday.Mahfuz, 95, is suffering…
Swiftly shifting sands of the Mideast
The following question was posed by The Washington Post a few days ago. It was answered, for The Daily Star Egypt by M.J. Akbar:Question: If Lebanon survives as a state,…
The Arab League has failed to "fulfill the hopes and expectations" of Somalia
A perpetual landmine for interventionists, Somalia has witnessed its share of inept approaches. Early in the conflict, the United States precluded any possible mediator role by denigrating the Union of…
