US declares war on pesky enemy – bed bugs
US officials are on the warpath against a new plague pouncing on unsuspecting people from cellphones, keyboards and mattresses - the humble bed bug now staging a comeback after two…
Lebanese minister dips out of call to go veggie
Lebanon s environment minister on Thursday shunned a call to give up kebabs and live on the country s wide range of vegetarian dishes.People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals…
THE REEL ESTATE: Cinema's patron saint of human suffering
Near the end of Bernardo Bertolucci's "The Dreamers (2003), the Italian provocateur shows some black and white footage of a teenage girl, around 14 years of age, moving up a…
A symphony of goodwill
CAIRO: "Normalization in the Middle East is not a good thing. I don't accept normalization; I'm against normalization because we don't want to let things stay the same. With these…
Aims beyond Turkey
Why did President Barack Hussein Obama visit Turkey so soon? Considering that Turkey and the United States have a long history of strategic relations both at the bilateral level and…
The audacity of hope for Palestine
SINGAPORE: The world will be enveloped in a heavy cloud of gloom and doom this year. Economies will sputter, governments will fall, and companies will fail. But the biggest danger…
Piracy, Somalia, and what the world needs to do
On the morning of April 8, 2009, a US-flagged cargo ship - the Maersk Alabama -carrying U.S. Government food aid destined for Africa was hijacked by Somali pirates 300 miles…
Lawyers' Syndicate elections face more setbacks
CAIRO: After the Lawyers' Syndicate opened the door for nominations in its general elections last week, controversy resurfaced as the syndicate faces setbacks in the legal framework governing the elections.…
Cycling for Gaza, cycling for aid
CAIRO: It is a sad reality that only four months after the 22-day Gaza onslaught, it has already been put on the back burner. The wreckage of hospitals and schools,…
Bloggers slug it out over the Hezbollah affair
CAIRO: The uncovering of a Hezbollah cell in Egypt last week has created a battlefront within the Egyptian blogging community's pro and anti Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah camps.The Egyptian media's…
