Hollywood's happy, even without a record year
Hollywood loves breaking box-office records, yet studio executives aren t griping that their 2008 lineup will fall a bit shy of the all-time high set a year earlier.With the overall…
Workshop redefines actor/audience relationship
In a recent workshop organized by the Townhouse Gallery and visiting American performance group My Barbarian, there was much more than the prospect of rich cultural exchange: it offered the…
Belly dance fever sweeps Vietnam's capital
A belly dance craze is sweeping the capital of communist Vietnam, dropping jaws, lifting spirits and - the dancers say - empowering women through a new mode of self expression.Since…
In Focus: Fears in 2009
CAIRO: I'm not optimistic about the advent of the New Year. All issues, domestic and regional alike, don't portend well. As 2008 ends with many negative events on both levels,…
Europe's Obama challenge
PARIS: Will the year 2009 and the beginning of Barack Obama's presidency mark the beginning of a new era in transatlantic relations, or will the old divisions linger, nurtured by…
Perfect Losers
LONDON: Economics, it seems, has very little to tell us about the current economic crisis. Indeed, no less a figure than former United States Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan recently…
Israel is the opium of the people and other Taboos
NEW YORK - "Why aren't you as an Arab lady writing about Gaza? "Where are your columns about Gaza? "Say the Israelis are wrong! The messages started to arrive soon…
Egyptian govt's Decision Support Center highlights 2008's good news
CAIRO: Non-political protests, canceling the Agrium project and successfully negotiating the release of 19 European hostages held in Western Desert and the release of an Egyptian vessel seized by pirates…
Read all about it with Mosky's own Om Tofaha
CAIRO: With her bulky rusty metal cart, Om Tofaha has been trudging around Mosky and Khan El-Khalili in Old Cairo for the past 23 years. But unlike other vendors in…