The French philosopher, Michel Foucault, stated that "space was treated as the dead, the fixed, the undialectical, the immobile. Time, on the contrary was richness, fecundity, life, dialectic."
He also went on to say, "our era is the era of space, (...)
Throughout history, the concept of time has constantly been changing. It differs from culture to another and from age to another. Scientists and philosophers have discussed the concept of time, whether it is linear or circular, with an end or (...)
A number of banking experts affirmed that the frequent power outages, that affected negatively most sectors in Egypt such as cutting the power off in the underground last Thursday, will not make banks retreat from offering credit to the electricity (...)
CAIRO: Egypt's stock exchange will reopen for trading on Tuesday, after being closed for a month, which came as a relief to analysts and traders.
Angus Blair, head of research at Cairo-based investment bank Beltone Financial, told Daily News (...)
The tear gas canisters used on protesters during the “Anger” demonstrations Friday had surpassed their 2008 expiration date, according to investigations by Al-Masry Al-Youm.
Al-Masry Al-Youm reporters managed to collect the canisters off Cairo's (...)
With the recent events taking place around Cairo and Egypt, it's probably worth taking a moment to look at how protests are policed and the best ways to keep safe when going on a protest march in Egypt.
As witnessed yesterday, in the “Anger Day” (...)
Police thwarted protesters' attempts to regroup in Cairo's Tahrir Square where thousands of demonstrators had gathered on Tuesday. Around 90 have been detained, security forces said.
The protesters had pledged to stay all night and continue (...)
In Egypt, where no national survey has been conducted on sexually transmitted infections (STIs) other than HIV in over ten years, a stigma regarding the use of protection and contraception methods remains among the younger generations. This stigma, (...)
After embracing a long journey in the land of Malaysia which included cave-exploring, night-walks in the jungle, swimming off abandoned beaches and eating a humanly-impossible amount of food, we decided to spend our last three nights in the Far East (...)
This is the third and most interesting chapter of our healthy guide handling ladies' problematic areas. We talked about the upper body, toning muscles without bulking up and losing femininity, with a 20 minute workout. We followed with an article (...)
After six days of dance performances and plays, the third edition of 2B Continued Laboratory and Festival ended its run to positive reviews. Most events took place in downtown's Falaky theater, starting Thursday 13th of January and closed on Tuesday (...)
In a continuous effort to create the ultimate free-of-charge service to its clients, Yellow Pages Ltd. has introduced a number of novel technologies. No longer a simple guidebook and phone directory, Yellow Pages now connects with its clients on (...)
In junior high school, I learned the historical value of Constantinya (Constantinople), the city now known as Istanbul. Stories of kings and armies filled my head with pictures of fairytale knights fighting each other for the honor of a hopeless (...)
Last week, we started our journey understanding the trinity of problem areas that prevent many women from having a firm and fit body. Having talked about the essentials of arm toning, we move on today to the lower body and different exercises that (...)
Tarek al-Sallab, 27, appears from afar, easily noticeable as he walks gingerly, gently cradling three large black boxes. He's wearing a pair of vintage shades. What we don't know yet is that the boxes are filled to the top with more vintage (...)
From organizing a grueling bike race to raise money for women craft workers, to establishing a life-coaching business, Yasmine Khater hopes to bring about a bit of peace and a lot of change.
The 25-year-old Egyptian-Singaporean blogger has lived in (...)
Most women who work out have one, two or all of three goals in mind: toned arms, flat tummy and lean hips. Such women have a perfect picture of themselves that they would like to achieve by the end of each class or training session. However, not (...)
While taking a photo of the street sign of Mohamed Mahmoud Street, a police officer stopped to ask me the purpose of taking such pictures. Curious as to my intentions, the officer became intent on spending this particular Friday morning figuring out (...)
In Cairo's heavily-populated Christian areas, most Copts are planning to attend Christmas mass, despite the obvious security concerns following the bombing of a church in Alexandria on New Year's Day that killed 23 people. Coptic Christmas falls on (...)
The Alexandria bombing which left at least 23 Copts dead while they emerged from New Year's mass at the church of St. Peter and St. Mark left many religious scholars concerned about the future of inter-faith co-existence among Egypt's different (...)
As you come to the realization that 2010 is in the past, and that you need to refer to events that happened last week as “last year," you start building up hopes and plans for the new year that awaits, plans that--most of the time--include some of (...)
Egyptian Tourism Minister Zuhair Garranah on Wednesday announced before parliament Egypt's projected tourist bookings in 2011 have fallen by roughly 65 percent. According to Garranah, the recent spate of shark attacks near the Sinai resort town of (...)
What makes the passing of a year influential in a given society are the people and social trends that managed to create a change in the lifestyle of that society. The year 2010 saw a large number of events to attend, stories to tell and people to (...)
Waking up in a hotel room in Alexandria in the winter is a slightly disorienting experience. The common impression of the Mediterranean city seems to be that it's sleepy and sedated in winter, but a chaotic tourist hell in the summer.
The streets of (...)
Just imagine...Strapped to your seat with six seat-belts in a car so modified that it looks like a war machine rather than an automobile. Trapped in a heavy helmet and surrounded by nothing but desert in all directions. Everything is muted by the (...)