THE REEL ESTATE: Beirut Open City
Since the informal establishment of Lebanese cinema in the early 1930s, few Lebanese films in the entire turbulent history of the country's struggling film industry have managed to garner substantial…
With a Grain of Salt: Merci for your impartiality
CAIRO: I received a phone call from a French TV correspondent asking me to comment on Gaza. A few minutes earlier, I had watched the Israeli Embassy spokeswoman in Paris…
Arab Complicity, Israel's Duplicity
CAIRO: At 11:30 am on Dec. 27 the Israeli air force bombed Palestinian government headquarters and civilian buildings all across the Gaza Strip. Six consecutive days of attacks resulted in…
Editorial: The price of Egypt's silence on Gaza
CAIRO: A 19-year-old Egyptian intern at this newspaper said something, which to me, sums up what's at stake for the future of this country if Egypt continues doing nothing about…
The tale of a former Egyptian child maid in the US
IRVINE, California/CAIRO, Egypt: Late at night, the neighbors saw a little girl at the kitchen sink of the house next door.They watched through their window as the child rinsed plates…
Somali pirates hijack Egyptian cargo ship
CAIRO: Somali pirates hijacked an Egyptian cargo ship with a crew of 28 near the coast of Somalia, the Egyptian foreign ministry said on Thursday.About 15 pirates, some of them…
Three Egyptian teenagers killed by old landmine
CAIRO: Three Egyptian teenage boys were killed by an unexploded landmine from one of Egypt s wars with Israel in the Sinai peninsula on Wednesday, a security official said.The three,…
Abou-Trika offers Gaza help
Ahly playmaker Mohamed Abou-Trika said he and his teammates were willing to do anything to ease the misery of Gaza people following Israel s bombardment of the strip. We are…