Iraq summit ends with pledge of support
CAIRO: The International Compact for Iraq ended in Sharm El-Sheikh with a pledge by the attending countries to support the Iraqi government and additional pledges of aid and debt relief…
What Sarkozy's win means for the Middle East
CAIRO: As French citizens cast their vote 53-47 in favour of presidential candidate Nicolas Sarkozy Sunday, they decided not only their own fate, but quite possibly the fate of millions…
Egypt's Sewedy Cables buys firm with tax exemption
CAIRO: Egypt s El Sewedy Cables, one of the biggest cable manufacturers in the Middle East, has bought an Egyptian firm with a 10-year tax exemption for power cable production…
TUI says Egypt's El Chiaty ups their stake to 4 pct
FRANKFURT: Egyptian tourism entrepreneur Hamed El Chiaty has upped his stake in TUI to 4 percent, the German tourism and shipping group said on Monday.Earlier this year, El Chiaty s…
With Madoz, not everything is as it seems
Sometimes there is more to life than meets the eye. Those who doubt the wisdom of that old saying should look no further than the work of acclaimed Spanish surrealist…
BOOK REVIEW: A stairway to the heavens
Al-Ghitani's newest novel transcends the World WonderThe Great Pyramids of Giza have incited a bounty of theories and unsolved mysteries. Despite the abundance of knowledge archaeologists have amassed about the…
The Shia Rising: A US Foreign Policy Dilemma in the New Middle East
The US invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan that elevated Iran to dominant power status in the Persian Gulf , have also unleashed a nascent Shia Muslim movement that is altering…
Vladimir Putin has thrived on luck, not on reform
Russian President Vladimir Putin's assertive foreign policy stance of recent years reflects the confidence that comes with a booming economy. In 1999, the year before Putin succeeded Boris Yeltsin as…
Why not adopt Norwegian pragmatism?
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's "hello to the Iranian foreign minister and her brief "businesslike meeting with the Syrian foreign minister Thursday at the international conference on Iraq in…
An exhausted US looks for multipolar exit strategy
After the Iraq debacle, nearly everyone seems to agree that "unilateralism in foreign policy is a bad thing. Leading the march of born-again multilateralists is Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice,…