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…
Goaaaaaaaal! Drogba shoots for UN development goals
NEW YORK: Côte d'Ivoire soccer star Didier Drogba, currently top scorer in the English Premiership and the European Champions League, has become the latest football great to shoot for the…
Enppi Follow in Zamalek's Dirty Footsteps
The announcement made by Enppi club that they promoted Hani Ramzi to replace head coach Rainer Zobel and demoting the German manager to take on a peripheral role only proves…
SPORTS TALK: Past and present
The recent news that the world s most celebrated boy king, Tutankhamen, used to play football only adds to the long list of evidence that our old, old forefathers not…
Central bank to introduce deposit auctions
Cairo: The central bank will start auctioning deposits, but the instruments will not be tradable on secondary markets, traders said on Wednesday.The central bank said in a statement that it…
Government allocates LE 1.2 bln for construction of roads, bridges
Cairo: The Egyptian Ministry of Transport has allocated about LE 1.2 billion of funds to construct new roads and bridges in 2007.Tarek Al-Attar, chairman of the General Authority for Roads…
Egypt launches major gold mining drive
Agence France-PresseCAIRO: Egypt signed a memorandum of understanding on Wednesday aimed at restructuring the gold mining sector, which officials predicted could bring in more than 10 billion dollars and reshape…