ON WHEELS: Find your flow in Cairo's traffic
CAIRO: Poets and artists may compare road networks to a web of intersecting watercourses: rivers branching off into creeks. Some are serene while others are turbulent. In places like Tokyo…
IN DEPTH: Car components: Smaller parts feed big business
CAIRO: As anyone who has waded through the jungle of Cairo's rush hour traffic knows, demand for cars has been growing steadily for years. And all good estimates indicate that…
A nostalgic evening with Tony Kaldas
At the Heliopolis branch of Diwan bookstore, a small crowd gathered for a musical evening by Egyptian singer Tony Kaldas, an aspiring young vocalist from Greek origins. He studied singing…
Marimba beats turn up the heat in Beit Harrawi
Of the few marimba or xylophone musicians in Egypt, Nesma Abdel-Aziz is probably the best known and loved, having played with legends like Omar Khairat and Nasseer Shamma. She later…
Is the 9/11 era over?
A few days ago, the seventh anniversary of the 9/11 events was unusually calm. For the American people this year, the events seemed as if they were from a movie.…
Tuberculosis or Hair Loss? Refocusing Medical Research
PRINCETON: In an ideal world, the amount of money we spend on medical research to prevent or cure a disease would be proportional to its seriousness and the number of…
Female film company unveils Saudi Arabia
JEDDAH: In the summer of 2006, I partnered with my friend Dania Nassief to establish our own production company in Jeddah. We wanted to tell the world the stories hardly…
Africa's Hard Black Gold
LAGOS: Few infrastructure services in the developed world may be as taken for granted as electric power. To consumers in industrialized countries, uninterrupted power supply is a given. Not so…
Egypt surveys peace horizon 30 years after Camp David
CAIRO: Thirty years after Egypt and Israel signed the Camp David accords, which led to Israel s first peace treaty with an Arab nation, the Egyptian street is divided between…
Computer game promotes killing Muslims by Americans
CAIRO: Controversy surrounding video games has resurfaced with the launch of Muslim Massacre, an Australian-made video game promoting the genocide of Muslims, causing international outrage by the Muslim community.According to…