No jewels in this Medina
Oh, my Lolita, I have only words to play with! If only. If only Nabokov had penned "The Jewel of Medina, the writer's words in his supposedly inferior second language…
Cyprus's Last Best Chance
NICOSIA: It is tempting to see the results of the recent parliamentary elections in northern Cyprus as a blow for the peace process. Voters in the Turkish Cypriot north rejected…
Voter education improves Indonesian women's political impact
JAKARTA: Looking at the percentage of women who competed for national parliamentary seats in Indonesia s April 2009 election - 35.25 percent of 11,301 candidates - one can conclude that…
The Spring of the Zombies
NEW YORK: As spring comes to America, optimists are seeing "green sprouts of recovery from the financial crisis and recession. The world is far different from what it was last…
Three editors questioned as syndicate, council exchange blame
CAIRO: Three chief editors were referred to the Journalists' Syndicate's disciplinary committee, as both the syndicate and Higher Press Council denied responsibility for the decision.Abdel Halim Kandil, former chief editor…
Ambulance drivers strike for better work conditions
CAIRO: Around 150 ambulance drivers from the Land and River Specialized Ambulance Center began a strike and sit-in outside the center's Cairo headquarters Wednesday evening, demanding better work conditions.Driver Hamada…
Committee to test Russian wheat
CAIRO: The seizure Russian wheat in Egypt is a "temporary decision, a source inside the general prosecution office told the Middle East News Agency (MENA).Egypt's state prosecution ordered Wednesday the…
Sharqeya boy contracts bird flu
CAIRO: A four-year-old boy from Sharqeya has contracted the highly pathogenic H5N1 strain of bird flu, the 70th such case in Egypt since the disease was identified in 2006, the…
SKorea and US rescue Egypt ship from clutches of pirates
SEOUL: South Korean and US helicopters have scared off pirates trying to attack an Egyptian ship off Somalia, military officials in Seoul said on Thursday.The Bahrain-based US Fifth Fleet, meanwhile,…