Mexican Carlos Slim world's richest in new Forbes ranking
NEW YORK: Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim has dethroned Microsoft founder Bill Gates as the world wealthiest person and China is fast catching up with the number of US billionaires on…
A lifeless Alice in wonderless land
The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit. -Lewis Carroll.I can't…
Forcing connections: 'Brothers Karamazov' and Egyptian society
Adapting a novel for the stage is not an easy task. Adapting a seminal text such as "The Brothers Karamazov by Russian master Fyodor Dostoyevsky is even more formidable. Dostoyevsky's…
Royal Crown Revue: It's got that swing
If it ain't got the swing, jazz icon Duke Ellington would have told you, it really don't mean a thing. That twang of strings, those booming drums, and those burbling…
Islamic principles versus Islamic state in Indonesia
SAN FRANCISCO, California/Jakarta: A critical component of Indonesia s democratic future involves recognition of the special role of Islam in the state. Because most Indonesian Muslims want their government to…
China's bad bet against America
CAMBRIDGE: Chinese-American relations are, once again, in a downswing. China objected to President Barack Obama's receiving the Dalai Lama in the White House, as well as to the administration's arms…
Celebrating extraordinary Muslim women
WASHINGTON, DC: On March 10, three Muslim women were honoured alongside philanthropist Melinda French Gates and human rights activists Panmelo Castro from Brazil and Rebecca Lolosoli from Kenya, by Vital…
Reassessing the genocide resolution
ANKARA, Turkey: Once again, as has happened every spring for years running, the debate over whether the ethnic clashes against the Armenians in the break up of the Ottoman Empire…
A single woman in Cairo: The new challenge
CAIRO: "People don't consider that you are a human being, says 31-year-old Layla, beginning her ordeal of being a single female professional living on her own in Cairo. Since she…
