A Palestinian tale of surviving on music
Swiss film week got off on the right foot Wednesday evening at Galaxy cinema with a star-studded opening that witnessed the premiere of Palestinian documentary "Telling Strings. Palestinian singer Kamilya…
Voices of the strangers
This week, the Stranger Festival - Europe's largest competition for young video makers - arrived in Cairo. The touring show consists of 77 videos made by European youth. From Amsterdam…
War Child's 'Heroes' on their heroes
Heroes is a covers album to end all covers albums. Not only does it include some of the most impressive collaborators in musical history, it provides a unique sense of…
Missed opportunity for real intercultural dialogue
The concept was sound: two heavyweights of Euro-Arab music, Maria Del Mar Bonet of Spain and Egypt's favorite son, Mohamed Mounir, collaborating on stage in the name of intercultural dialogue.In…
Sufism as youth culture in Morocco
NEW YORK: Morocco owes its image of a modern Muslim nation to Sufism, a spiritual and tolerant Islamic tradition that goes back to the first generations of Muslims and has…
Obama's faith in the Golden Rule
BOSTON, Massachusetts: Last spring, dogged by looping video of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright howling "Not 'God bless America', 'God damn America', presidential hopeful Barack Obama cracked open the tense discussion…
Turkey's new mission
TEL AVIV: Ever since Turkey's establishment as a republic, the country has oscillated between the Western-oriented heritage of its founder, Kemal Ataturk, and its eastern, Ottoman legacy. Never resolved, modern…
Agriculture, climate change lead regional development concerns
CAIRO: "The developing world is full of interesting people with interesting ideas but they haven't always had the means to develop their ideas or to make them matter, David Malone,…
Security checks don't mean interference in State Council, says expert
CAIRO: Security interference in appointments to the State Council and the absence of women judges from the council were the focus of a seminar organized by the Arab Center for…
