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Hotels and Resorts expectations of recovery
Investors expect investment in the tourism sector to recover by the beginning of next October
Tourism decline hits HSBC
HSBC has shut down two of its branches recently in Sharm el-Sheikh and Hurghada because of the slowdown in the tourism sector.
Russia calls on US to probe WikiLeaks documents
MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday called on the United States to carry out a detailed investigation into allegations contained in leaked Iraq war documents published by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. "The US authorities bear the responsibility to conduct a thorough, independent and transparent investigation of all the reports that have appeared in the media," the Russian …
Solidarity of Sounds pairs a good cause with great music
This week, a full house at Cairo Jazz Club grooved along to Paolo Palopoli’s Mediterranean-influenced Neapolitan jazz/funk fusion, Jordanian acoustic rock band SALAM, and DJ Masters @ Funk and percussionist Seif Khirfan at Solidarity of Sounds, a benefit concert organized in cooperation with Italian NGO Voica World and the Canossa Centers. The proceeds of the …
Mob storms Kuwaiti TV station critical of rulers
An armed mob stormed the offices of a privately owned Kuwaiti TV station and destroyed its equipment after the channel aired shows critical of the country’s ruling family, employees said Monday. At least 100 people wielding guns and knives broke into Scope TV’s studios on Sunday, cameraman Fahad Al-Rashed said. "They forced us off the …
Iraq PM visits Syria in bid to stay in power
DAMASCUS: Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki held talks Wednesday with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus after a year-long row as he seeks to win support for his bid to remain in power. The meeting between the two leaders got under way soon after Maliki arrived in the Syrian capital in the morning, the official …
Muslim Brotherhood accuses police of new pre-election crackdown
CAIRO: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood on Tuesday accused the government of cracking down ahead of November’s parliamentary election, as police arrested at least 28 members of the Islamist group. The Brotherhood, which fields independent candidates to skirt a ban on religious parties, said on its website that police arrested 11 members of the group in the …
New Gourna; conserving our heritage and empowering the people that inspired it
CAIRO: It is widely held that around 80 percent of buildings in Cairo have not involved an architect. Judging from the organic way it looks, I think that figure is not in doubt. We the architects are therefore a rare and endangered species, threatened by what we like to call client ignorance, and fight bitterly …