Saul Bellow letters show man behind novels
Like the first line of a novel, the idea for a letter could occur to Saul Bellow at any time. The words might have come on a daily walk or…
Egyptian TV preacher to fight extremism in Yemen
ADEN: Yemen has enlisted the help of a popular Egyptian television preacher to help it dislodge militant Islamists' foothold within its conservative population. The impoverished Arabian Peninsula state, already juggling…
The crooked path of financial reform
By Jean Pisani-Ferry BRUSSELS: Two years ago, governments saved the necks of the world’s financial markets. Yet today, those same markets intimidate governments, or at least some of them. In Europe,…
British Muslim women tackling stereotypes head on
By Shelina Zahra Janmohamed LONDON: When it comes to discussing British Muslim women, you’d be forgiven for thinking that we lead a one-dimensional lifestyle: the niqab (face veil)-and-nothing-but-the-niqab. The image of…
The Caucasus imperative
By Vartan Oskanian YEREVAN: Summit season is upon us. Following the G-20 meetings in Seoul and the NATO summit in Portugal, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe will hold…
Bridging sectarian divides in Pakistan
By Qurat ul ain Siddiqui KARACHI: A blast at a mosque in Darra Adam Khel in northwest Pakistan earlier this month killed more than 60 people. Recent attacks like this one…
Israel to vote on center to detain Africans
JERUSALEM: Israel's Cabinet, hoping to stanch the illegal flow of Africans through the country's porous southern border with Egypt, is scheduled to vote Sunday on a proposal to build a…
HRW condemns Egypt ‘repression’ ahead of election
By AFP CAIRO: Human Rights Watch accused Egypt on Wednesday of repression and of intimidating opposition candidates in the run-up to Sunday's parliamentary election, which it said made a free and…
Turkish PM urges Lebanon to overcome crisis
BEIRUT: Visiting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday urged Lebanon's rival parties to unite and overcome a crisis linked to a UN probe into the assassination of the…
Israeli troops raze mosque, buildings in West Bank
KHIRBET YARZA: Israeli troops razed a mosque and more than 10 other structures in two areas of the occupied West Bank on Thursday, Palestinians sources said. Most of the demolition…
