Peace this Time?
JERUSALEM: The imminent resumption in Washington of direct Israeli-Palestinian peace talks is good news. But whether these talks will lead to an agreement, let alone within one year as US…
Put women’s rights back on the Afghan agenda
WASHINGTON, DC: When the Taliban fell in 2001, my family and I were already settled in Pakistan after having fled our home country, Afghanistan, like so many others. The new…
Anti-terror camp in UK trains youth to counter extremism
LONDON: What drives a Western born-and-bred youngster, with all the privileges of an education, a modern lifestyle and freedom of speech, to violently attack his fellow countrymen? The growing phenomenon…
Tokyo, old and new, can be enjoyed on the cheap
One of the most fascinating things about Tokyo is the way it combines both the ancient and the modern. Or rather, the way it does not combine them at all,…
It Bag, watch out: France’s folding fan is back
Forget Balenciaga's "Giant City" and the other luxury purses that vie for the title of "It Bag" of the moment. If two young Parisian fashionistas have their way, next season's…
Man accuses policeman of putting his live mother in the morgue refrigerator
CAIRO: A journalist filed a complaint to the Minister of Interior accusing a policeman in Qaliubiya governorate of allegedly having his mother placed in the morgue refrigerator following a…
Mountain hiking? How about doing it for a cause?
CAIRO: On Sept. 12, a group of 25 young people will take on the challenge of summiting Mount Kilimanjaro over the course of seven days in an effort to raise…
New Yorkers, US groups denounce attack of Muslim taxi driver
NEW YORK: New Yorkers, including the city's mayor, and several national US organizations, strongly condemned Wednesday the attack of a taxi driver believed to have been targeted because he is…
Tough away tasks for Kabylie, Mazembe
JOHANNESBURG: African Champions League pacesetters JS Kabylie of Algeria and TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo put unbeaten records on the line this weekend. Group B leaders Kabylie,…
300 new schools to open this year, no increase in tuition fees, says minister
CAIRO: Egypt’s Minister of Education Ahmed Zaki Badr, announced that 300 new schools around the country will start operating for the first time in the new academic year this September.…