Spanish company Cimpor offers LE 2 billion for Misr Cement Qena
MCQ shares up 30 percent in one week on rumors of possible offerCAIRO: Spain-based Cimpor Inversiones SA announced late Sunday it is looking to buy 100 percent of Misr Cement…
Egypt orders release of Muslim cleric in CIA kidnapping case
CAIRO: Egypt has ordered the release of a Muslim cleric who has been held behind bars since he was kidnapped in Italy allegedly by CIA agents four years ago. We…
Abbas in Cairo says Mideast summit to set stage for final status talks
Agence France-PresseCAIRO: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday that a meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert would set the stage for…
Cairo dismisses Israeli charge on neglecting Rafah tunnel smuggling
CAIRO: Diplomatic sources in Cairo have rejected Israeli accusations that Egypt was failing to do enough to halt weapons-smuggling to Palestinians factions across the Rafah border.But Egyptian officials insist they…
New wheat-alternative crops to raise Egypt's export potential
CAIRO: Dandara Development & Investment Co. (DDI) is on the path toward irrigating parts of Upper Egyptian desert land and introducing new wheat alternatives, lupin and quinoa, with large potential…
Blurred photos, bad film and a fascinating collection of photographs
Artist employs the photo faux-pas as inspiration for his latest collection Blurred images and warped colors are two of the photo world's biggest sins.However, for Cairo-based photographer Paul Ayoub-Geday, a…
The unseen rewards of informal US-Arab dialogues
Relations between the Middle East and the United States are undeniably strained. Evidence of this comes to us every day through the news, in movies and television, and in academic…
Might George W Bush's 'surge' work?
Whatever critics at home and abroad may think, the "surge that President George W. Bush is planning for Iraq is more than a troop increase; it is a new and…
Egypt and Hamas between uneasiness and 'red lines'
Egypt confronts a double problem on its northeastern borders - both Palestinian and Israeli. The two problems are intertwined and have interacted over the past six decades or so. However,…