Egyptians increasingly shunning condom use
With stealth and caution, Hisham walked into a downtown pharmacy and, blushingly, whispered some words, which the pharmacist did not make out immediately.The key word in Hisham's hushed speech was…
Egypt's Orascom plans $500 mln 7-year bond, banker
LONDON: Egypt s Orascom Telecom plans to sell a $500 million 7-year bond after a roadshow, a banker familiar with the sale said on Friday.Orascom on Thursday hired Credit Suisse…
Abstract, beautiful and entirely Egyptian
It may be a set of decorative utensils. On the other hand, it might be a man and a woman looking at each other. Yet again, it just might be…
The State of our Union is frustrating
You could see it in Democratic Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi's eyes, sitting atop the rostrum behind George W Bush as he gave this week's State of the Union…
Ben Ali's dictatorship is creating more Islamists
Tunisian President Zein al-Abedin ben Ali has on official occasions often referred to the legacy of the great Arab writer Ibn Khaldoun, born in Tunis in 1332. The last time…
Turkey is changing, despite Dink's murder
Less than a week before Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink was assassinated, his compatriot Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature, was made editor-in-chief for a day at…
If Iran is next, the United States is making a mistake
Can politics learn from history? Or is it subject to a fatal compulsion to repeat the same mistakes, despite the disastrous lessons of the past? President George W. Bush's new…
From home to home
JEZREEL VALLEY, Israel: When my grandfather was on his deathbed, began one of my Palestinian-Israeli students, he took the key from the house from which he was exiled in 1948…
Your definitive shopping guide at the Cairo International Book Fair
CAIRO: For the past 39 years, January in Cairo has always meant the following: nice weather; the mid-year vacation for students; and the Cairo International Book Fair.The 39th round of…
