Oil up more than 5 pct after Fed plan, weak dollar
LONDON: Oil jumped more than 5 percent on Thursday to above $50 a barrel after the US Federal Reserve announced a new plan to fight recession and a weak dollar…
Natasha Richardson dies at 45 after ski accident
Natasha Richardson, a gifted and precocious heiress to acting royalty whose career highlights included the film "Patty Hearst and a Tony-winning performance in a stage revival of "Cabaret, died Wednesday…
The elephant in the room
This month, Cairo's hottest contemporary arts venue Darb 1718 hosts an exhibition called "Nun by Amr Fekry, one of Egypt's most celebrated young artists. Like the space, Fekry's work straddles…
10 most groundbreaking graphic novels of all time
The comics mania is in full swing this week in Egypt. A workshop by German comic-book illustrator Künstlern Isabel Kreitz and Egypt's Magdy El-Shafaie (author of "Metro, Egypt's first graphic…
Egypt unveils P haraonic 'brain drain' bed
CAIRO: Egyptian antiquities authorities on Thursday revealed an ancient Pharaonic embalming bed unearthed from a mysterious tomb near Luxor used to prepare bodies for mummification more than 3,000 years ago.The…
Love in the time of the revolution
A complex tale of love, loss, and human desire, set against the emergence of Gamal Abdel Nasser's new Egypt, unfolds effortlessly in Bahaa Taher's "As Doha Said. Bahaa Taher won…
Stolen antique paintings retrieved, says ministry
CAIRO: Nine antique paintings that were stolen earlier this month were retrieved by police officials after they were tipped off by an "anonymous phone call, an official statement released by…
Not every day is Purim
WASHINGTON, DC: A colloquial Hebrew expression says "not every day is Purim , which can loosely be translated to "you can't fool all the people all the time .Israelis -…
Seeking an end to the international double standard
BETHLEHEM: The international community employs a double standard in its reaction to Palestinian and Israeli extremism. While the democratically elected Hamas government in Palestine is shunned for its refusal to…
A warrant of hypocrisy
LONDON: Earlier this month, the International Criminal Court (ICC) upheld the request of the court's chief prosecutor to issue an arrest warrant for Omar Al-Beshir, the President of Sudan, charging…
