Conflicts over water resources have grown exponentially in the last 150 years.
Throughout swathes of South East Asia, the Middle East, and North East Africa, burgeoning populations are putting strain on limited water resources, and many analysts (...)
Despite establishing an excellent reputation since it re-opened a couple of years back, there were plenty of tables available at the Birdcage Thai restaurant at the Intercontinental Semiramis hotel during peak hours on a Friday night.
This is (...)
CAIRO: As the Arab Water Council meets today for the first Arab Region Consultative Workshop March 13-15 to prepare its research papers and regional reports for the Fifth World Water Forum in Istanbul in March 2009, many questions surround Egypt's (...)
CAIRO: An Al-Qaeda video posted on the internet Monday accused Egyptian security of being behind a recently released book renouncing the use of violence to establish an Islamic state written by the founder of Islamic Jihad, Sayed Imam (...)
CAIRO: After re-launching Egypt operations in 2004, BMW has established itself in the local market, building the company's largest manufacturing plant in Africa in Sixth of October City and registering significant year-on-year growth in sales.
As (...)
Ballet returned to the Cairo Opera House with an unusually full program March 7 and 9, with a production of "Bolero in honor of the late dance-theater legend Maurice Bejart running alongside the main feature "Zorba.
Bejart passed away in November (...)
The vast majority of dog owners may be mad about their four-legged friends, but come Holiday-time figuring out what to do with Fido can feel more like a headache than a labor of love.
Dogs require almost as much care as a baby, but cannot be (...)
What is heaven? What does it look like? What do you do there? In a monthly series of articles, Daily News Egypt asks Egyptians from all walks of life what they expect of where they hope to spend eternity.
Sheikh Ibrahim Negm, the spokesman for (...)
CAIRO: Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration launched its online 'eCornell' education program in Egypt Monday under the auspices of the Minister of Tourism Zoheir Garranah at a press conference in the Cairo International Convention (...)
CAIRO: The World Bank's Managing Director Juan Jose Daboub praised the Egyptian government's economic reforms at a press conference Saturday, but stressed that the country's economy faced several challenges.
Daboub pointed to the yawning gap (...)
CAIRO: Calls for the severance of ties with Denmark and the boycott of Danish products heightened throughout the Muslim world this week following the republication of a cartoon negatively depicting Prophet Mohamed in Denmark's major (...)
A few weeks after their impressive performance of Guiseppe Verdi's opera "Un Ballo in Maschera, the Cairo Opera Company gave a fine rendition of the Italian composer's "Rigoletto Wednesday evening.
Aldo Magnato resumed his duties as choirmaster (...)
CAIRO: The fifth session of the Agriculture and Land and Water Use Commission (ALAWUC) for the Near East got underway yesterday at the Grand Hyatt hotel in Cairo.
A branch of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), 23 of Alawuc's member (...)
CAIRO: The four-day Cairo Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) forum kicked off Sunday at the Cairo International Conference Center in Nasr City under the slogan, "The world as we know it is now changing .
Hundreds of businesspeople and (...)
Cairo: The Cairo Conference Center in Nasr City will host the 2008 Cairo Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) forum February 24-27.
The forum, which has run annually since 1996 and is widely held to be the largest of its kind in the (...)
CAIRO: Nokia launched a new range of handsets in Egypt at a press conference at the Intercontinental Semiramis Hotel in Cairo Wednesday.
Nokia's Head of Sales for North East Africa Sherif Barakat, Mohamed Essawi, the company's head of "Go To (...)
CAIRO: Rioting continued into its seventh night Sunday in a number of Danish cities after more than a dozen Danish newspapers reprinted one of the controversial Prophet Mohamed cartoons.
On Saturday police arrested groups of youths in Copenhagen, (...)
Cairo: A report released by the Nielsen Company Monday has found that 33 percent of Egyptian internet users shop online, making it the fastest growing internet shopping nation in the world.
However, that figure is still well below the global (...)
CAIRO: The author of the "Emerging Egypt 2008 business report praised Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif's efforts in decentralizing Egypt's economy, but also recognized the challenges ahead.
The Oxford Business Group (OBG), in partnership with (...)
It is impossible to define the dance routine of the Tania Pérez-Salas Dance Company, and its lead dancer after whom the company is named.
Devised from a series of dance movements and physical expressionism, and inspired by everything from (...)
CAIRO: Al-Jazeera journalist Howayda Taha successfully appealed against a six-month prison sentence in a Heliopolis appeals court Monday but failed to have a LE 20,000 fine overturned.
Taha was appealing against a sentence handed down last May by (...)
CAIRO: An Irish charity worker and her daughter who were detained after crossing from Gaza into Egypt will not face trial, a spokeswoman for the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) told Daily News Egypt.
Treasa Ni Cheannabhain and her (...)
What is heaven? What does it look like? What do you do there? In a monthly series of articles, the Daily News Egypt asks Egyptians from all walks of life what they expect of where they hope to spend eternity.
Basma, 22, a recent graduate of (...)
The adage that adversity produces greatness is particularly pronounced in music. Jazz has its origins in the chanting of African slaves picking cotton on southern American plantations. Feelings of alienation and depression inspired Kurt Cobain to (...)
CAIRO: The British government has refused to issue a visa to Egyptian cleric Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi, a spokeswoman for the British Home Office in London told Daily News Egypt.
In a telephone interview, a Home Office spokeswoman reiterated the (...)