Iraqi cinema makes a comeback at Greek film festival
Iraqi cinema scored a notable first at this month's Thessaloniki International Film Festival in Greece, with one film up for an award and a retrospective of the young director Mohamed…
Lebanese Civil War drama wins best film at DIFF; Egypt receives best acting prizes
A Lebanese chamber drama set against the backdrop of the Civil War has won best Arabic film on Sunday at the seventh Dubai International Film Festival. George Hachem’s debut feature…
The frontiers of power
By Malavika Jain Bambawale SINGAPORE: There are close to 1.5 billion people in the world without access to electricity, more than half in the Asia Pacific region. Unfortunately, in today’s world…
Is there a future for Haiti?
By César Chelala NEW YORK: Like many, I ask myself if there is a future for Haiti, and what shape that future would have. Unlike those who look with despair at…
Algeria to name price for Djezzy by mid-2011: sources
ALGIERS: The Algerian government is likely to make an offer to buy Orascom Telecom's local mobile phone unit by the middle of next year, Algerian government and telecoms sources said.…
Telenor blasts troubled Vimpelcom-Weather deal
OSLO/MOSCOW: Vimpelcom's $6.6 billion bid for telecoms assets owned by Weather Investments was hanging by a thread after Norwegian shareholder Telenor said on Monday it would not back the deal.…
China’s monetary sterilization
By Fan Gang BEIJING: Not long after the United States Federal Reserve Board announced its second round of “quantitative easing” (known as QE2), the People’s Bank of China (PBC), China’s central…
Air Arabia Egypt launches daily Alex-Cairo bus service
Air Arabia Egypt launched a daily bus service between Alexandria and Cairo, the airline said in a statement, in response to increasing demand. From its Alexandria hub, Air Arabia Egypt…
Arafa 9-month net profit more than doubles
Arafa Holding, Egypt's biggest garment exporter, saw its net profit more than double in the nine-month period from February to October, the Egyptian stock exchange said on Sunday. Net profit…
Avanti Dilettanti!
By Joschka Fischer BERLIN: Returning to Europe lately after a six-day trip to the United States, I wondered for the first time while reading the press on the recent Irish crisis…