New film union aims to support filmmakers in the Muslim world
The Union for Short Filmmakers of Muslim Countries aims to overcome problems that moviemakers face and help them gain access to international film festivals. Speaking from Pakistan, Maheen Zia, founding…
Voice of power threatens voice of dialogue
Kaunas, Lithuania: They always come at night, George Orwell told us. You wake up to find people holding flashlights and surrounding your bed. This image always reappears during times of…
Four decades after Sayyid Qutb's execution
This week marks the 42nd anniversary of the execution of Sayyed Qutb, one of the most prominent figures in contemporary Islamism. Over four decades after his death, Qutb remains controversial,…
Syria and Iran: an alliance of convenience
Syria's relationship with Iran, though largely asymmetrical, tends to be viewed as a robust alliance that many political observers believe is only getting stronger. Underneath the showmanship, Iran's ties to…
AUC welcomes 54 scholarship students
CAIRO: The 54 recipients of the academic scholarship to study at the American University in Cairo celebrated their achievement at the university's downtown campus on Wednesday. On its fifth year,…
Septuplets stir debate on fertility drugs
ALEXANDRIA: The 27-year-old woman and her husband already had three children - all girls. They badly wanted a boy, and she had not conceived in five years, so doctors gave…
Peace activist Abie Nathan dies at 81
CAIRO: Renowned Israeli peace activist Abie Nathan, whose actions constantly put him at odds with Israeli authorities, died Wednesday at the age of 81.Nathan, who founded the Voice of Peace…
US Suez shooting probe blames ship's wrong arrival time
CAIRO: A US probe into the shooting of an Egyptian man by a US Navy chartered boat near the Suez Canal in March said Thursday that the ship's arrival at…
21 Muslim Brotherhood members arrested
CAIRO: Twenty-one Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested on Thursday in the Nile Delta for holding an illegal meeting at a former MP's home, a security official said."The 21 men were…
Survey shows Muslims are not globalization 'separatists', says expert
WASHINGTON: Muslims embrace economic globalization as long as it doesn't mean that Western influences will snuff out their cultural identity, the head of a US-based research and polling group said…
