'Next Move' opens with a giddy bang
CAIRO: "It's the right time to be in real estate. It's a local maxim that would make American brokers chuckle or, perhaps more likely, cringe. But for a cluster of…
Life as a mathematical maze
It's easy to forget that regardless of their aesthetic or conceptual qualities, most artworks are born of a childlike curiosity. Such curiosity is currently on display at the International Media…
Marcel Khalife's experimental performance leaves much to be desired
In those moments of pre-performance mingling at the Cairo Opera House, as we waited for the revolutionary and much revered Lebanese oud master Marcel Khalife and his Al Mayadine Quartet…
Amateur filmmakers break the rules in Second Cairo Mobile Film Festival
The intimate, personal works of a number of novice directors using the latest art tools have been briefly put under the spotlight last week at the Second Cairo Mobile Film…
'Victor' marred by mediocrity
Anybody who's been fortunate enough go to university has probably been unfortunate enough to have been subjected to the genre of performing art known as "college theater. It more often…
Youth Views~ Conflict in Nigeria
It s been nine years since Nigeria, Africa s biggest oil producer and most populous nation, ended its military rule and became a democracy. The transformation, though slow and problematic,…
Spring election crossroads for Kuwait
The recent resignation of members of the Kuwaiti government and subsequent dissolution of the parliament reflects severe structural imbalances and an ongoing conflict between a government lacking in strategy and…
A time for moderates?
The twenty-fifth Turkish military incursion into Iraqi Kurdistan to root out the PKK (Kurdish Workers Party) and the way it ended proved that that there can be no military solution…
Will the Suez Canal feel the heat?
CAIRO: Although global warming might not have a direct effect on the Suez Canal, it might create an Arctic water passage completely navigable to shipping, thus undermining the value of…
Eight-year-old Yemeni girl gets divorce after forced marriage
SANAA: A Yemeni court on Tuesday granted a divorce to an eight-year-old girl whose unemployed father forced her into an arranged marriage this year, saying he feared she might be…
