An American in Cairo
Cairo is a barren wasteland for comics fans. That is a sad, undeniable fact. No bookstore in the country houses a comics section. A small handful of graphic novels are…
THE REEL ESTATE: Summer 2009: What happened? (Part 1)
It started with infinite promises, tumbled swiftly with one disappointment after another, and ended with a thud. The 2009 global summer film season was largely disappointing, relying largely on sequels,…
'Sarkoland' satire is surprise box office hit
A French comedy that pokes fun at President Nicolas Sarkozy s posh hometown while up-ending clichés about the country s immigrant housing projects has scored a surprise summer hit at…
Turkish-Kurdish conflict through a woman's lens
WASHINGTON, DC and Sirnak, Turkey: Both looked pale, reserved and distant. With sombre expressions on their faces, Zeynep Yalçin and Kumri Bilgi embraced one another before the flashing lights of…
Does "curing" cancer kill patients?
TAMPA: Patients and politicians increasingly demand a "cure for cancer. But controlling the disease may prove to be a better strategy than striving to cure it. A century ago, the…
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…
