Taking the terror out of dental visits

A different approach to pediatric dentistryCAIRO: Surrounded by purple, orange, green and fuchsia, looking at the open playroom full of toys for all ages and experiencing a growing feeling of…

Sarah El Sirgany

Raising tourism awareness

Internal awareness campaign faces both criticism and supportCAIRO: In a bid to increase the current 8.6 million tourists per year to the planned 16 million and encourage repeat tourist visits,…

Sarah El Sirgany

Banks on upstream projects to yield more water

Reuters CAIRO: Egypt must persuade countries in the Nile basin to improve their water management so that more water flows downstream for its growing population, Water Resources and Irrigation Minister…

Jonathan Wright

A vast perspective

CAIRO: With a fleeting first glance you see a faded azure landscape, vast and desolate. Then, slowly - as the images seem to come closer, even as you stand still…

Aida Nassar

Seventeen bidders vie over Ganope new concessions tender

Seventeen international oil companies have obtained documents of the fourth tender launched by the Egyptian Ganoub El Wadi Holding Petroleum Company (Ganope) earlier this year, said Hassan Akl, chairman of…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

London protests support assaulted journalists

Egyptian and British activists rise in support of Egyptian journalistsBy Daily Star Egypt staffCAIRO: After organizing worldwide protests for the judges' cause, Egyptians residing in London, with the help of…

Pakinam Amer

Court case highlights confusion between ministry and the people

CAIRO: When Minister of Interior Habib Al Adly announced that demonstrations needed to have a permit from the ministry before they would be allowed on the street, it was regarded…

Joseph Mayton

Jail time extended for pro-reform protesters

CAIRO: Prosecutors on Tuesday extended the detentions of 164 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and 21 other people for taking part in pro-reform protests earlier this spring.The 164 members…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Arab League calls for meeting to provide relief aid to Darfur

CAIRO: The Arab League called Tuesday for a region-wide meeting next month in Cairo to seek ways to provide aid to Sudan s troubled Darfur region.The 22-member states of the…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Israel impedes development of Gaza gas field

Standoff threatens new Egyptian LNG projectCAIRO: Israeli authorities have held up the development of an offshore natural gas field in Palestinian territory by not responding to a routine request for…

Waleed Khalil Rasromani