Lithuanian film probes desolation, hope in black and white
It's difficult to classify the Lithuanian film "Vortex; on one hand the story is grounded in a grim reality, and on the other, many scenes veer towards the artistic, the…
Cairo International Film Festival's recommended movies of the day
I Believe In Angels Director: Niksa SvilicicStarring: Vedran Mlikota, Dolores Lambasa, Aljosa Vuckovic and Marija KohnSynopsis: The mailman, Sime, is one of the most popular inhabitants of a small Croatian…
The triumph of the powerless
NEW YORK: It was early June 1989. Václav Havel had been released from jail only days before, yet he was full of what now seems an almost prophetic certainty. Thousands…
Chicago prize to Pakistani education activist
CHICAGO, Illinois: Behind the news of suicide bombings and displaced groups in Pakistan, people in the country are working to foster a generation of young people equipped to solve the…
Arab women on the move
ALEXANDRIA, Virginia: Women in the Middle East are on the move, but in decidedly different directions, depending on where you look. In less than 40 years, Cairo has gone from…
Experts say radical measures won't stop swine flu
LONDON: Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu - most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire planeloads of passengers were isolated if one traveler had symptoms - have…
Court sentences former MP to three years in jail in defective blood bags case
CAIRO: Former MP Hani Sorour was handed down a three-year jail sentence by the Cairo Criminal Court Thursday in the notorious defective blood bags case.Helmi Salah Al-Din, general manager of…
NGO demands urgent investigation into 'illegal detention' of Quranist
CAIRO: Lawyers at the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) are demanding an urgent investigation into what they describe as the illegal detention of an Egyptian Quranist.According to a statement…
Egypt's World Cup dreams dashed in Khartoum
CAIRO: Silence and despair loomed over Egypt Wednesday night as the national football team lost their tiebreaker against Algeria in Sudan in a bid to secure a qualification ticket to…