"Figaro's" failed marriage between orchestra and vocals
An instrumental version of Mozart's classic opera buffa "The Marriage of Figaro (of 1784) is being staged this week at the Cairo Opera House. Opera frequenters will be surprised not…
A street singer in Cairo
Much is often made of the vitality of Cairo s street life, its grimy, insistent, animation and its business of 24-hour people, cars, donkeys and drama. A never-ending presence has…
A candid conversation with Youssef Ziedan
I don't present stories to pass time, Arabic Booker prize-winner Youssef Ziedan says. "Through my texts, I extend an invitation to the reader to partake in forming a kind of…
In today's world, anyone might…
KUWAIT CITY: It was the first time I realized that the very bright, young and privileged can also be very foolish. In the summer of 1989, a couple of my…
Forging Asia's missing links
MANILA: China's government has just announced that Premier Wen Jiabao will be the main speaker at the 2009 Boao Forum for Asia, where the roster of leaders expected to participate…
Restoration of US-Turkey relations?
President Barack Hussein Obama swooped into Turkey on April 6 for two days of fence-mending bilateral relations with erstwhile, if sometimes prickly, ally Turkey while disseminating a message of friendship…
Local print media going against the grain
CAIRO: As print media powerhouses crumple around the world due to exorbitant printing costs, declining advertising revenues and dwindling subscribers, the recent launch of a privately-owned Egyptian newspaper seems to…
Cairo University professors protest for higher pay
CAIRO: University professors held a protest at Cairo University Thursday afternoon, as part of their campaign for better pay.Professors accused the government of "smearing their image in a statement handed…
MB question transportation minister
CAIRO: Head of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) parliamentary bloc, Hussein Ibrahim, led a furious attack on Mohamed Mansour, minister of transportation during last Wednesday's parliamentary session.During the session, the MB…
Crisis could create 100 million 'new hungry', says UN
GENEVA: The United Nations warned Thursday that the global economic crisis could create up to 100 million new hungry as it wipes out jobs in poorer countries. The evidence that…
