Government bans Muslim Brotherhood's annual Ramadan event
CAIRO: The government has banned the Muslim Brotherhood s largest annual social gathering for the first time in 20 years, part of a concerted crackdown against the country s opposition,…
Ministry employees arrested on bribery charges
CAIRO: The Administrative Monitoring Authority arrested Abdel Hamid Kotb, chairman of the engineering department of the Higher Council of Antiquities along with a number of other employees involved in the…
Ericsson keeps 'low profile' in Mideast amid new cartoon row
STOCKHOLM: Swedish telecoms giant Ericsson said Sunday it was keeping a low profile in the Middle East after Al-Qaeda in Iraq threatened it over a cartoon which appeared in a…
Egypt, UK to diversify trade, investment portfolio
CAIRO: While Egypt and the United Kingdom have always enjoyed strong bilateral trade relations - namely in the oil and gas sector - both sides are working to diversify their…
Living on the fringes
Over 200 people attended Egyptian artist Nader Sadek s exhibit "The Faceless which opened earlier this month at Michael Steinberg Fine Art in New York s Chelsea district. The exhibit…
Rape scene in TV series denounced as tarnishing Egypt's reputation
CAIRO: The rape scene in Egyptian actress Youssra's new Ramadan TV series, A Public Opinion Case, was denounced for tarnishing Egypt s reputation by member of the National Council for…
The Montreal Protocol: A model of global cooperation
Yesterday we commemorated the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Montreal Protocol, a groundbreaking international agreement that curbed and eventually reversed the thinning of the ozone layer, and ushered…
A star is jailed
Joseph Estrada, the disgraced former president of the Philippines, faces the prospect of spending his remaining years in prison after a special court in Manila found him guilty of amassing…
Looking at alternatives
Al-Qaeda is generally viewed as a global threat bent on changing the world order at any cost. This hybrid movement has its distant and various roots in the Muslim Brotherhood…