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Play highlights Muslim family's beliefs, conflicts
ATLANTA: As the college-age daughter of Egyptian immigrants living in Starkville, Mississippi, Suehyla El-Attar felt isolated. The only idea I had was, I just need to get out of here, said El-Attar, who turned those feelings of isolation and culture clash into a play, The Perfect Prayer. The Perfect Prayer is the semi-autobiographical story of …
Football hues
Colorful trainers at the center of World Cup fashion CAIRO: Fashion and football often come together. Sometimes sports borrow something from fashion or vise versa. Some football players become even more inspiring than fashion icons, setting the trends for the upcoming seasons. With the World Cup 2006 kicking off, the world better be ready for …
Arab League celebrates
ŠΘ # # # The event was organized by the Arab League in coordination with Bahrain, here, Magda and Amr Moussa and Ola Ragab # # There was an art gallery in which many young adults and children from different nationalities participated, in addition to each writing a letter that was put in a …
Detentions continue for pro-reform protesters
CAIRO: Jail time was extended Wednesday for 50 members of the Muslim Brotherhood and two activists. Mohamed El Sharkawy and Karim El Shaer, two activists who have been in the spotlight over the past two weeks for the alleged kidnapping, torture and sexual abuse perpetrated against them, were given another 15 days in prison. The …
Owner of sunken ferry to return to Egypt to face trial
CAIRO: The owner of a Red Sea ferry which caught fire and sank in February with the loss of over 1,000 lives said in an interview that he would come back to Egypt from Britain to face trial on negligence charges. I will return and appear in court accompanied by my son because I trust …
Designing a cosmopolitan
An overview of the influences on Cairo’s changing skyline CAIRO: Cairo has been aptly dubbed “the city of a thousand minarets. The sheer numbers of mosques dotted around the city have dominated its character in recent history, though Coptic churches and Pharaonic monuments have vied for their share of attention. Today, a glance over the …
Creative edge
Ganzeer studio creates a forum for Arab graphic artists and designers CAIRO: The great Walt Disney once said, “You can dream, create, design and build the most wonderful place in the world, but it requires people to make the dream a reality. Well, here in Egypt, those “people have arrived. Three artists, all under 25 …
Shadows in the dark
Filmmaker documents last year’s Sudanese refugee protest CAIRO: When filmmaker Ahmed El Kady arrived in Cairo in October 2005, after working on a film in Berlin, he was astonished and intrigued about what he found in the center of Cairo. Amid the busy, lively streets of Mohandiseen, Sudanese refugees were camped out in a square …
Landscaping 101
Good landscaping, good results CAIRO: Before I started writing this article, I had to indulge in a lot of reading about landscaping. I’m assuming most urbanites, like myself, know precious little about the subject. Yes, everyone enjoys an attractive college campus, golf course and shopping center, but how many people know what is involved in …
Incorporating Islamic finance into MBA program
Course addresses growing need for Islamic skills CAIRO: Over the past 40 years, Islamic banking has grown from a niche business to a promising alternative to mainstream banking. Today, multi-billion dollar deals are made Sharia-compliant to tap into an estimated supply of some $500 billion in funds seeking consistency with Islamic principles. In order to …
UN Human Rights Council: contested elections except for Africa
The good news is that, finally, the UN has replaced the badly reputed Human Rights Commission with the newly established Human Rights Council. The old body was a symbol of UN dysfunction as human rights violators gained seats in it and used their positions to prevent any censuring of their policies. Hopefully, it won’t work …
Egypt hopes full Iraqi government will lead to reconciliation
CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak expressed hope Thursday that the completion of Iraq s government would help bring about reconciliation in the war-ravaged country. President Mubarak expressed … his hope that the Iraqi government will succeed in creating an atmosphere for holding the Iraqi reconciliation conference, presidential spokesman Suleiman Awwad told reporters. Awwad said Mubarak s …
Egyptian government criticized for approach against HIV/AIDS
HRW says Egypt and Syria need to “face facts CAIRO: The U.S.-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) on June 1 criticized Egypt and Syria for not being explicit enough in the fight against HIV/AIDS and for threatening to derail last week s UN General Assembly meeting on the subject. Fifty thousand people will die this week …
Word on the Street
Pay to watch CAIRO: Football, by far, is the most popular sport in Egypt, and while Egypt participated in the World Cup in 1934 and 1990, Egyptian football fans will have to content themselves with watching other nations vie for the coveted trophy. Egyptians, like the rest of the Middle East, will be unable to …
Press round-up
Local writers focus on parliamentary mishaps, soldiers death CAIRO: Enjoy the bad because the worst is coming up, was the opening quote of Khairy Ramadan s article in Al-Masry Al-Youm last Tuesday. Khairy linked two of the most prominent news items that have dominated editorials throughout the week: the ongoing investigation into clashes between MPs …
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 Arab League said the July 26 meeting will bring together member countries, aid groups and others to discuss ways of ending the inhumane conditions …
London protests support assaulted journalists
Egyptian and British activists rise in support of Egyptian journalists By Daily Star Egypt staff CAIRO: After organizing worldwide protests for the judges’ cause, Egyptians residing in London, with the help of British activists, rose in support of two female Egyptian journalists who were assaulted by police in Egypt. Around 30 protestors from organizations including …
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 of the Brotherhood and the 21 others were ordered held for 15 more days each by prosecutors of the government s state security arm. …
Carven fashion show in Cairo
ŠΘ # # # More than 30 models flew in from France and Italy for the fashion show, here, Hosna Rashid, Mayan Raslan and Hoda Maher # # French, Greek and Italian ambassadors attended the event, in addition to many Egyptian businesspeople and socialites, here, Ahmed Maher and French Ambassador Philip Cost
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 Ganope, on Tuesday. Akl pointed out that when the areas under the recent tender are assigned, about 50 percent of Ganope’s work area will have …
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 – you glimpse a small image on the horizon, where the sky meets the sea two people stand in the still waters. Part of a …
Interbank rate falls to 8.15 percent
CAIRO: The median overnight interbank rate on the pound fell to 8.15 percent on Wednesday from Tuesday s 8.269 percent as banks awaited the results of a central bank auction, traders said. The central bank auctioned 56-day certificates of deposits worth LE 6.4 billion ($1.1 billion). Certificates worth LE 8.2 billion matured at the same …
Kuwaiti company to build major container terminal in Egypt
KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait and Gulf Link Ports International has signed a $1 billion, 40-year concession agreement to build a major container terminal in Egypt, the KGL PI chairman said Tuesday. Under terms of the agreement, the company will build, finance and operate the terminal in the Egyptian city of Damietta, Mohammed Al-Mazeedi told a press …
Israel impedes development of Gaza gas field
Standoff threatens new Egyptian LNG project CAIRO: Israeli authorities have held up the development of an offshore natural gas field in Palestinian territory by not responding to a routine request for a survey from the field s operator, British Gas (BG). The delay is the latest development in a five-year saga of the field known …
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 Mahmoud Abu Zeid said. Egypt depends on the Nile flowing in from Sudan for 95 percent of its water as no significant tributaries add to …
Raising tourism awareness
Internal awareness campaign faces both criticism and support CAIRO: In a bid to increase the current 8.6 million tourists per year to the planned 16 million and encourage repeat tourist visits, the Ministry of Tourism kicked off a five-year campaign to increase internal awareness of the importance of individually supporting tourism. Many are now familiar …
Taking the terror out of dental visits
A different approach to pediatric dentistry CAIRO: Surrounded by purple, orange, green and fuchsia, looking at the open playroom full of toys for all ages and experiencing a growing feeling of comfort, I had to keep reminding myself that I was at a dental clinic. After all, the strong smell of detergent and disinfectant and …
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 as an official decree from the ministry. However, with the recent case against Al Adly’s Ministry of Interior, brought on by the Egyptian Organization for …
Operatic expression
Cairo Opera House to host performances by Italian composer Verdi CAIRO: This month, patrons of the Cairo Opera House will be treated to Giuseppe Verdi’s operatic masterpieces. Soloists Iman Mostafa (Soprano), Alessandra Franceschi (Mezzo-Soprano), Sergio Panajia (Tenor), Reda El Wakil (Bass) conducted by Elio Boncompagni will perform a selection of Verdi’s operatic works this week. …
International conference on investment features workshops on public-private partnerships
CAIRO: Minister of Investment Mahmoud Mohieddin, heading an Egyptian delegation consisting of Dr. Ziad Bahaa El-Din, chairman of the General Authority for Investment and Free Zones (GAFI) and the vice chairman of GAFI, was in La Baule, France, yesterday for the annual three-day International Investment Conference, where he delivered a speech on reforms undertaken by …