A role for Mecca in Afghanistan?
WASHINGTON, DC: Wandering seven long years in the mountains of Afghanistan with hardly an end in sight, the United States has just been offered a most fortuitous fix. It likely…
Standing together against Obsession
WASHINGTON, DC: Twenty-eight million copies of the DVD "Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West were distributed in direct mail and newspaper insert campaigns to swing states throughout America in…
North Korea's Choice
NEW YORK: When the Republic of Korea was established in 1948, Korea was one of the poorest countries in the world. GDP per capita was $67 in 1953, immediately following…
Politics dominate 20th Experimental Theater Festival
The 20th Cairo International Festival for Experimental Theater thus far has been a surprising mix of well conceived works. I'm not quite certain though if I'm just having temporary good…
Goethe Institute marks 50th anniversary
It s been 50 years since the Goethe Institute opened its first branch in Cairo in 1958. A year later, it opened a branch in Alexandria. Throughout the past half…
Violence, torture and 'Man's Inhumanity' on display
The current highlight of Goethe Institute's 50th anniversary celebrations is the anticipated exhibition by German artist Günther Uecker at the Townhouse Gallery. Uecker's internationally acclaimed body of work ranges from…
Italian mafia want to kill 'Gomorrah' author this year
The Italian mafia wants to kill investigative author Roberto Saviano by Christmas for his expose Gomorrah, whose screen version won second prize at the Cannes film festival, a daily said…
Thirteen-year-old from Alex wins WFP art competition
CAIRO: In a moving speech, Alexandrian 13-year-old Ibrahim Khaled thanked those who helped him win one of the 2008 global art competition administered by the United Nations World Food Program…
'Bride & Groom' caricatures lack character
The post-Eid wedding season is upon us, one wedding after the next. And yet recently in the Egyptian marriage-obsessed society, the concept of a gawwaz el-salonat (arranged marriages) has been…
Optimistic outlook for telecom in North Africa
CAIRO: The financial crisis is spreading skepticism across the world, yet spirits and attendance were high at the North Africa Com Conference, the largest conference on telecommunication in the region,…
