Janitors with a personal touch missed at AUC

By Bassem El Sanadi
Now that they are not around, everyone wonders where all those janitors and office boys in blue shirts who kept The American University in Cairo clean and efficient have disappeared to. 
On the old campus, in every building, there were two or three janitorial men in blue shirts known to the faculty and [...]

Advertisers’ hard sell at soft opening finds few buyers

By Nader Ramadan
At the Student Union soft opening, popular band Wust el Balad and musician Mahmoud El Esseily performed on a stage bathed in blinking strobe lights, white smoke and flashes of white, yellow and blue. But the real spotlight was on event’s private sponsors.
A large poster advertising Red Sea resort Port Ghalib hovered behind [...]