SCA accidentally gets back stolen antiquities
CAIRO: January is normally a quiet month in the news world, with…
Egypt dump Ivory Coast and eye sixth title
KUMASI, Ghana: Defending champions Egypt took aim at a sixth African Nations…
US embassy nominee vows to promote democracy in Egypt
WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush's nominee for ambassador to Egypt, brushing aside…
Slam poetry with a French touch
In another cold, windy evening at the French Cultural Center's theater in…
Indonesia´s green madrassas
In a remote part of Central Java, Indonesia's most populous island, there…
At the Altar of Palestine
After he scored a goal in a recent match against Sudan in…
Turkey's parliament debates lifting Islamic head scarf ban at universities
ANKARA: Turkish legislators opened debate Wednesday on one of their secular but…
New Internet cable being laid in Mediterranean off Egypt coast
CAIRO: After dramatic Internet outages that engulfed a large swath of the…
The Politics of illusions
I have just returned from an extended trip to the Middle East,…
Islamic finance is going global
The 2008 Islamic Finance Festival (FES) was held in Jakarta from Jan.…