Orascom Telecom sells Iraqna to Kuwaiti Zain
CAIRO: Orascom Telecom quit its operations in Iraq and sold its Iraqi mobile phone operator Iraqna for $1.2 billion to Kuwait's Mobile Telecommunications Co (Zain), allowing the Egyptian operator to…
Google restores YouTube account of activist blogger
CAIRO: Google has restored the YouTube account belonging to Award-winning Egyptian rights activist and blogger Wael Abbas. The leading video-sharing website pulled the plug on Abbas page a few days…
Matt Dillon discusses career in festival's dullest conference
In one of the most peculiar, dull and yawn-inducing press conferences of the festival so far, American star Matt Dillon was showered with typical questions about his career and the…
Dollars and Depression
The falling dollar has emerged as a source of profound global macroeconomic distress. The question now is how bad that distress will become. Is the world economy at risk? There…
The weigh to peace
TEL AVIV: Women s desire to be thin is universal. That, at least, is the premise behind A Slim Peace, a documentary bringing together Palestinian and Israeli women for a…
Crime and Punishment, Refugee Style
The horrible murder of Giovanna Reggianni that took place near a Romanian refugee camp in the suburb of Tor di Quinto in Rome shocked both Italy and Romania. The case…
GfD proposes solutions to facilitate Arab development
CAIRO: The Minister of State for Administrative Development Ahmed Darwish stressed e-Government as a key contributor to development. In the meeting of the participants of the Good Governance for Development…
Egypt frees jailed Shia rights activists, say lawyers
CAIRO: Two Shia activists in Egypt who were arrested in October while campaigning against torture have been released, their lawyers said on Sunday. Mohamed Al-Dereini, who heads the Shia Supreme…
Shehata wants Shikabala's ban lifted
CAIRO: Egypt coach Hassan Shehata filed an official request to the Egyptian Football Association (EFA) in an attempt to lift the ban imposed on Mahmoud "Shikabala Abdel Razek. The Zamalek…