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Setting Alexandria ablaze

ALEXANDRIA: Egyptian police fired live ammunition into the air and lobbed tear…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Violence and confusion take over Alexandria

ALEXANDRIA: In the Cidi Bishr section of the city, parishioners at the…

Vivian Salama

Whatever happened to GAFTA?

CAIRO: Arab countries have a reputation of cooperating better with the outside…

Waleed Khalil Rasromani

Stocks tumble 5 percent, in line with Gulf

CAIRO: The benchmark Hermes index fell nearly 5 percent in the first…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Hamas points donors to Cairo bank with French ties

JERUSALEM: Hamas, facing a funding crisis two weeks after taking over the…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Muslim Brotherhood sees no harm in nuclear Iran

CAIRO: A leading member of the opposition Muslim Brotherhood said on Sunday…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Mubarak tries to defuse anger over remarks on Shiites

CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak has sought to defuse anger over remarks he…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Police continue arrests of Brotherhood members

CAIRO: Police on Sunday detained 100 Muslim Brotherhood activists as part of…

Daily Star Egypt Staff

Moving toward electronic trading

CAIRO: Trading shares is an intricate process. Between the buyer and seller…

Waleed Khalil Rasromani

A global citizen for the new epoch

CAIRO: In a world of hyper-globalization and the idea of a clash…

Joseph Mayton