Rodriguez to present 'anti-stress' collection
NEW YORK: Fashion designer Narciso Rodriguez s spring 2009 collection will be full of joy, based on an anti-stress formula that aims to inspire feelings of optimism amid economic crises…
HEALTH MATTERS: New way to spot bowel cancer could save lives: study
Researchers in Britain have developed a more accurate technique for spotting the most aggressive forms of bowel cancer, according to a new study.The discovery will help doctors to rapidly identify…
Bedouin Lifes: A good toilet is hard to find…
Ever tried to build a toilet on a mountain? You would think that with lots of tourists clambering around the mountains of South Sinai and the Bedouin wanting them to…
A whiter shade of pale: skin-lightening in the Arab world
Marwa wants a paler face and is willing to try a whole range of lightening creams that promise beauty, love and success to Arab women. But such products have also…
Weekly Stock Review: Bourse barely reverses downward trend Thursday
CAIRO: The buzzword on the Egyptian stock exchange was foreign selling this week. While starting off the week in the green, the Egyptian stock market quickly reversed trends, reeling from…
Confessions of a (M)ad Man: The paradox of choice (aka why I can't be happy, no matter what you give me)
When I left Egypt in 1999, I was very excited about one thing above all else: the choices I would have when I got to New York.That's what getting out…
Unemployment down in Morocco, but it's still a long road
RABAT: Morocco s unemployment rate, long a concern, has dropped steadily so far this year, on the back of services and construction growth.Further reforms to bolster competition and openness will…
On the edge of heaven
While the Arab world continues to consume its daily dose of the petty nonsense of Turkish soap opera Nour, a young Turkish filmmaker is currently taking the art world by…
With a Grain of Salt: No place for Nasser
Hats off to state television for refusing to run a TV series on the life of former Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser this coming Ramadan.Indeed there is no room for…
Putin's gold-medal war
LONDON: What does the "Olympics War, otherwise known as Russia's invasion of Georgia, really mean? The war itself was, of course, predicable and predicted. Its results are equally clear. First,…