Belonging to the land, not owning it
By Sharon Rosen and Suheir Rasul JERUSALEM: Even back in those tempestuous years of the 1960s and 1970s when the possibility of peace was just a dream in the minds and…
Palestinians target settlements in UN resolution
RAMALLAH: The Palestinians plan to ask the UN Security Council in the coming days to declare Israeli settlements illegal and demand a halt to their construction, officials said Wednesday, in…
Ivory Coast opposition at hotel threatened
ABIDJAN: A fiery member of incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo's Cabinet urged supporters to seize a hotel where the internationally recognized winner of last month's election has been organizing a shadow…
Terror suspects in court over ‘Mumbai-style’ massacre plot
COPENHAGEN: Three terror suspects appeared in a Danish court Thursday in relation to a foiled "Mumbai-style" plot to massacre staff at a newspaper that published caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed.…
Turkish president seeks to ease Kurdish tensions
ANKARA: Turkey's president traveled to the country's Kurdish-dominated southeast Thursday, a day after the country's civilian and military leaders rejected the minority's demands for autonomy and recognition of their language.…
Emirate’s prince offers help for Egyptian sextuplet family
DUBAI: A crown prince in the United Arab Emirates is offering free housing and other aid to the impoverished parents of newborn sextuplets. The pledge by Sheikh Ammar Bin Humaid…
Annual box office down a bit from 2009 record
Domestic box-office revenues for 2010 won't quite hit last year's record-setting haul, but they'll be awfully close. Total movie-ticket sales will reach $10.556 billion, the tracking agency Hollywood.com said this…
Moroccan writer Taia challenges homosexual taboo
Novelist Abdellah Taia, who has won acclaim in France and readers abroad, has challenged a taboo in his native Morocco and won't back down: he is the first writer to…
‘Miramar’ opera marks Mahfouz centennial
The operatic adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz’s “Miramar” was met with no less enthusiasm when it played this month at the Cairo Opera House Main Hall than during its debut run…
Dubai’s global bourse hopes end but options remain
DUBAI: Dubai's ambition to become an international equity hub may have been put on ice by its need to repay debts, but the Gulf Arab state could still become a…
