Aboutrika credits coach Jose for strong run over the years
Zamelek, Ismaili lost without coaches?Ahly superstar Mohamed Aboutrika heaped praise on coach Manuel Jose and said the Portuguese is the main reason behind his improvement over the past few years.He…
Selling your baby not a crime, says prosecutor
CAIRO: The deputy prosecutor's office for the Al Marg district released Adel Ahmed, 41, who had been arrested a few days earlier for selling his child to a lawyer for…
A pinch of salt of the earth
CAIRO: I know it is difficult to imagine, but let's take a trip back through time to when there were no steam engines, no pharmaceutical companies and no iPods. A…
Boat of illegal immigrants reaches Sicily
ROME: A boat carrying more than 600 illegal immigrants from Egypt reached Sicily s southern coast and the migrants were being transferred Tuesday to several holding centers in the region,…
After unipolarity, Europe's time to make a difference
Listen carefully these days to the Israelis and South Koreans. What they are hinting at is no less than a tectonic shift in the international system: the shift from a…
Don't soon expect an able Iraqi Army
Two years ago, during the month of Ramadan, a bus carrying 50 Iraqi soldiers heading home on leave was ambushed outside Baghdad. The soldiers were led out of the bus,…
If wars start in the mind, then impose peace of mind
There is a dictum in the Babylonian heritage about the virtues of compromise that goes like this: "Where there is complete truth, there is no peace. And where there is…
An amusingly poor production
Hamam Maghrebi (Moroccan Bath) is not thought-provoking fareIt's usually difficult to start by undermining a work of art with the aim of criticizing it. Hamam Maghrebi (Moroccan Bath), a theater…
BP Egypt to invest $5 bln in local energy industry
British Petroleum plans to invest as much as $5 billion in the Egyptian oil industry over the next five year, increasing the total value of the company's investments in Egypt…
