Lockerbie: hypocrisy, double standards and secrets
The knives are out for Libya simply because the Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill made the decision to release the only person convicted in connection with the 1988 Lockerbie bombing…
America's Groucho Marxists
LONDON: Groucho Marx has always been my favorite Marxist. One of his jokes goes to the heart of the failure of the ideology - the dogmatic religion - inflicted on…
Hallucinatory states
BRUSSELS: The rise to power of Hamas, Likud and Yisrael Beiteinu represents a frightening hardening of nationalistic visions that does not bode well for the future. Instead of obsessing over…
Editorial: We need a hero
CAIRO: Back in mid-April when it was first reported that Egyptian fishermen were taken hostage by Somali pirates, it seemed that their fate was sealed. Their two fishing boats, the…
Swine flu, economic downturn overshadow Muslim holiday
RIYADH: Muslims entered the fasting and feasting month of Ramadan this week with swine flu and the economic downturn adding to the security fears that plague several Islamic countries in…
State Council to accept female law graduates, says report
CAIRO: Egypt s State Council will employ female law graduates within its ranks for the first time, daily newspaper Al-Shorouk reported Sunday.Applications will be accepted this September from female lawyers…
Teachers, students arriving from abroad to wait 8 days
CAIRO: Teachers, students and education administrators arriving from abroad are to wait eight days after they arrive before going to school as a precautionary measure against H1N1, Abdel Rahman Shahin,…
Retrial of officer convicted of assaulting Nadim doctor begins Monday
CAIRO: The retrial of a policeman convicted, in absentia, of the physical assault of a doctor in a courtroom will commence on Monday.Ahmed Antar Ibrahim was sentenced to six years…