Al Ahli wins with early four-goal blitz

CAIRO: Holders Al Ahli scored four goals in an opening 20 minute blitz to easily beat Asante Kotoko of Ghana in their African Champions League Group A match on Saturday…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

In Cairo, boom times for Arabic language schools

Demand for Arabic-speakers fuels surge in language school enrolmentsCAIRO: Tomader Rifaat has been in charge of the International Student Service Offices at AUC for 21 years, and she has never…

Sports Talk: Uneven playing fields

This really is the summer of the cheat. Laboratory tests have caught three of the most compelling champions of their sport using banned substances to enhance their performances.World and Olympic…

Alaa Abdel-Ghani

While the world focuses on Lebanon, Gaza lay in ruins

CAIRO: The Gaza Strip has become a place where workers take pictures with anachronistic 200 Sheqel bills (approximately $50), and an entire community drops soldier into mundane telephone conversations to…

Deena Douara

Lebanon war tarnishes Egypt diplomatic prowess

Reuters CAIRO: Egypt s flagging prestige as a key broker in the Middle East has taken a further blow after its slow and indecisive response to the war between Hezbollah…

Daily News Egypt

Cairo bids joyous farewell to giant Ramses statue

Agence France-Presse CAIRO: Hundreds of thousands of people lined Cairo s streets Friday to bid farewell to one of the metropolis s landmarks as the colossal statue of Ramses II…

Daily News Egypt

Present and Tense: Nellie's secret

Dan was back from Beirut's southern suburb, where he was taking care of routine business.A little war always lifts his spirits, but he looked a bit preoccupied. "I don't know…

Nabil Shawkat

Crisis escalates between NTRA and MobiNil over EDGE technology

Noozz CAIRO: Mobile phone service provider MobiNil announced on Thursday that the National Telecom Regulatory Authority (NTRA) had officially notified the company that the introduction of the 2.75G, or EDGE,…

Daily News Egypt

More than just the land of Pharoahs

Egypt's untapped tourism resources boundlessCAIRO: Along with the Suez Canal and oil and gas revenues, tourism is one of Egypt's main sources of foreign currency and, as the number of…

Ahmad Aboul-Wafa