Huge Yemeni crowds press on for president’s ouster
SANAA: Hundreds of thousands of anti-government protesters packed the streets of several Yemeni cities Wednesday to demand the president's ouster and denounce a munitions factory blast that left at least…
Bloggers join hands to create Japan ‘Quakebook’
Inspired by a desire to help victims of Japan's deadly earthquake, a group of bloggers and writers have come together through the Internet to create a book of stories about…
Taylor’s unpublished love letters up for auction
Before becoming a bride eight times over, Elizabeth Taylor was a 17-year-old starlet scribbling letters to her first fiance, charting on pale pink stationery his progression from her one-and-only to…
Hamdeen Sabahi launches presidential campaign as ‘independent’
CAIRO: Popular figure and founder of Al-Karama Party, Hamdeen Sabahi, announced the official launch of his presidential campaign during a conference Wednesday at the Journalists' Syndicate. Under the slogan "One…
Tahrir Book Fair: Expect some noise
“This is going to be the best book fair we’ve had,” says Trevor Naylor about the Tahrir Book Fair that opens on Thursday at the Tahrir campus of the American…
Talking to the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt
By David Phillips A secular youth movement may have deposed President Hosni Mubarak, but the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt is positioned to take power in September’s parliamentary elections and assume a…
State-owned press overhaul announced days before planned protest
By Safaa Abdoun CAIRO: In a decree that many deem as overdue, Prime Minister Essam Sharaf announced the appointment of new chairmen and editors-in-chief of state-owned newspapers after securing the approval…
Yemen’s regime change gets personal
By Barak Barfi SANAA: When Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered his military on March 18 to fire on peaceful protesters calling for his resignation, he sealed his fate. A wave…
Japan’s recovery bonds
By Yuriko Koike TOKYO: The tsunami raced through the town at eight meters per second, the speed of a gold-medal sprinter. The wave’s height reached 15 meters, towering above even the…
The hard right goes soft
By Guy Sorman PARIS: The central paradox of French politics was confirmed once again on March 27. In a nationwide vote to select local authorities (the so called Conseiller Général), the…