Maine merchant makes most of uptick in book sales
Nearly half of North America’s independent book stores have closed in the past decade. Book store chains are struggling. E-books are all the rage. Even so, Brett Wickard is defying…
Guy Manoukian wows Cairo with twist on classic music
In what was undoubtedly one of Cairo’s best concerts of 2010, Lebanese Armenian maestro Guy Manoukian took the Cairo Opera House by storm, wowing the audience with his cutting edge…
A united Egypt can defeat any enemy
By Firas Al-Atraqchi I had never imagined when I started to write an article about the cold-blooded violence targeting the Christians of Iraq that I would be mourning for their Coptic…
Why is rape different?
By Naomi Wolf NEW YORK: As Swedish prosecutors’ sex-crime allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange play out in the international media, one convention of the coverage merits serious scrutiny. We know…
Mubarak blames ‘foreign hand’ for church attack
By AFP CAIRO: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak accused "foreign hands" of carrying out a deadly New Year's day attack on a church early Saturday that killed 21 people and wounded…
Egyptian soldier killed by smugglers
RAFAH: Egyptian security and medical officials say an Egyptian soldier has been killed in exchange of fire with smugglers near the border with Israel. The officials said Rami Ahmad Abdel-Latif,…
Egypt police say migrant killed at Israel border
CAIRO: Egyptian police shot dead an African migrant trying to cross illegally into Israel on Sunday, the latest in a string of deadly incidents on the porous desert border, a…
Urbanizing China
By Fan Gang BEIJING: Measured by the percentage of people living in its cities, China’s urbanization rate currently stands at about 48 percent, according to official statistics. Given that the share…
Egypt media warn of ‘civil war plot’ after bombing
By AFP CAIRO: Egyptian newspapers warned on Sunday that "civil war" could break out unless Christians and Muslims close ranks after a deadly attack on a Coptic church that triggered…
The unrelenting scourge of child prostitution
NEW YORK: Their names are Chandrika, Hamida, Amod, Madhuri, Maria or Jenny. And as varied as these children's names are their nationalities: Indian, Bangladeshi, Nepalese, Nicaraguan or North American. What…