Dairy owners promote camel milk benefits
To milk a camel, you need warm hands, a gentle touch and quick timing — camels give milk only in 90-second bursts. Gil and Nancy Riegler, owners of…
Breaking up is hard: Poems a tough fit in e-form
Billy Collins, one of the country's most popular poets, had never seen his work in e-book form until he recently downloaded his latest collection on his Kindle. He…
People are government’s last priority, says released Sinai activist
CAIRO: After 30 months of shuttling between a number of Egyptian prisons, Bedouin activist Mossad Abu Fagr maintains that his experience mirrors the government’s fear of rising dissidents and…
We’ve got media, but where are the voters?
CAIRO: Along with a host of respected editors, rights advocates and political analysts and politicians, I was invited by the European Union Commission in Cairo to participate in a seminar…
E-activists: from web surfers to web actors
BEIRUT: Blogs are becoming increasingly popular in Lebanon as they cover the political and social landscape, expressing society’s demands. As a result, blogs and online groups have become a true…
Dialogue demands more courage than war
KUWAIT CITY: The recent controversy over the Freedom Flotilla heading to Gaza with humanitarian aid has sparked heated debates in every venue where people exchange their opinions, online and off.…
A Roosevelt Moment for America’s Megabanks?
WASHINGTON, DC: Just over a hundred years ago, the United States led the world in terms of rethinking how big business worked — and when the power of such firms…
American stuck in Egypt on no-fly list going to US
McLEAN, Virginia: A US man whose travels to Yemen caught the attention of the FBI and landed him on the US no-fly list, leaving him stuck in the Middle East…
Animal rights activists banned from protest at Dubai zoo; to head to Cairo
DUBAI: Dubai police banned two demonstrators from animal rights group PETA from starting a protest branding zoos as "animal prisons" on Thursday, saying they were not authorized. Dressed in prison…
Five dead in Nile boat accident near Cairo
CAIRO: Five people drowned late Thursday and one person was missing after their boat capsized on the Nile in the suburbs of Cairo, a security official said. The boat, which…