Zamalek fail to strike Toulan deal
CAIRO: Helmi Toulan won t be Zamalek s new manager as both sides failed to strike a deal on Saturday, the Cairo side said.Portuguese manager Manuel Cajuda was sacked after…
British airliner leaving Egypt makes emergency landing in Greece
ATHENS: A Boeing 767-200 aircraft with 183 passengers on board belonging to the British airline XL made an emergency landing late Saturday at Athens, a Greek airport official said. The…
Blair calls talk of Iran dialogue 'overstated'
CAIRO: British Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Saturday he thought talk of the West opening dialogue with Iran and Syria on how to defuse regional tensions and help stem…
Last French Islamist deported from Egypt
CAIRO: The last of a group of 11 French Islamists detained in Egypt last month on suspicion of involvement with terrorist organizations was deported Sunday, security sources said.Youri Sorokine flew…
German economic locomotive helped by Egypt trade
Economic relations with Egypt have profited the German economy with benefits to both countries in their push for increased trade, Dominik Mutter, head of the German embassy's economic section said…
Blom Bank Egypt expands into brokerage activities
Blom Bank Egypt has concluded its acquisition of the Investia brokerage firm in Egypt and re-launched the company as Blom Securities, according the Saad Al-Azhari, the bank's chairman.He said that…
How about Tut's mask for Christmas?
This past week I had three jobs on my agenda. Stealing Tutankhamun's death mask from the Egyptian Museum, buying a Secret Santa gift for a colleague and fish.There is a…
A serene Seniora continues to hold out
The Lebanese not so long ago liked to refer to their gaudy capital as "the Paris of the Orient. But on Sunday afternoon, with more than a half-million pro-Hezbollah demonstrators…
What the ISG report forgot to say about Palestine
The recently released Iraq Study Group report enthralled people from all sides of the political spectrum in the Arab and Islamic world. One might even say the report set a…
