Controversy over burial of Tunisian who converted to Islam
TUNIS: A Tunisian court is today discussing the case of a Christian Tunisian woman, who converted to Islam in 1955 but was prevented from being buried in a Muslim graveyard,…
Art world looks to China to sustain sales boom
SHANGHAI: Andy Warhol s pop art portraits, Damien Hirst s kaleidoscopic butterfly wings and Zhang Xiaogang s monochromatic families were on sale this weekend under the Shanghai Exhibition Center s…
EFG leads Egyptian bourse down on foreign selling
CAIRO: Egyptian stock indexes slipped on Sunday for the fourth straight session, with foreign investors dumping shares to cover positions in falling international markets, brokers said. The benchmark index CASE…
Arab League chief doubts Mideast peace deal this year
CAIRO: Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Saturday there were no high hopes for a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians this year, warning that time was being…
Al-Qaeda threatens to assassinate Egyptian expert on Islamist movements
CAIRO: Al-Qaeda threatened yesterday to kill Egyptian Islamist movements expert Diaa Rashwan, a researcher at Al-Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies.The statement was published on an online forum affiliated…
Gold weighed down by dollar rally
CAIRO: If you are looking for an excuse to buy some gold jewelry, now is the time. The yellow metal slid to an eight-month low which may increase demand and…
Toronto film festival award goes to … 'Slumdog Millionaire'
TORONTO: Audiences at the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival picked Briton Danny Boyle s Slumdog Millionaire for this year s best picture, organizers said Saturday.The film follows a poor boy…
Spike Lee does the right thing in France for forgotten black troops
DEAUVILLE: Spike Lee visited a World War II cemetery near France s D-Day landing beaches before presenting the European premiere of his film about the forgotten contribution of African-American soldiers…
A KHAWAGA'S TALE: Hunting down speed racers
Since moving to Sixth of October, I've entered that macabre world that resembles a cheap video arcade lined with racing car games where you swerve in and out of the…
The Omar El-Bashir indictment: a precedent for global accountability?
WASHINGTON, DC: The world deserves a supranational and neutral international court in which political interests and stakeholders are unable to deter investigations into the actions of leaders who sanction murder…