Oil price flies to record high beyond $146
LONDON: The price of oil set a record high above $146 a barrel here on Thursday owing to falling reserves of US crude, simmering tensions over Iran and a weak…
Connecting the dots
Joma's voyage started in 2003, when the Spanish artist decided to draw symbolic lines connecting different cultures and civilizations in Mediterranean countries. Instead of drawing lines on a map, Joma…
The power of Captain Hima's cardboard hair
Egypt's male answer to Beyoncé, the ubiquitous Tamer Hosny, is a spectacularly hardworking man. A man who does not allow his busy schedule of album releases, TV appearances, film releases…
The sound of sandstone
Standing among the assembled audience as it milled around in the courtyard of the Cairo Opera House on Wednesday evening, I must admit to feeling a little skeptical.The show we…
Zimbabwe's permanent Guantánamo
Last week, the United States Supreme Court ruled that detainees at Guantánamo Bay have the right to habeas corpus - the right to challenge the factual and legal basis of…
Help build trust with Arab Israelis
Last month we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the birth of the state of Israel. We paid tribute to its numerous spectacular achievements. We congratulated those responsible. Yet the fact…
Lebanon's new status quo
Hezbollah's armed insurrection in May, which overran Beirut and other parts of Lebanon, has dealt a further blow to hopes of true state sovereignty in the country, strengthening Hezbollah and…
The top-down effect: Plagiarism in Egyptian universities
CAIRO: For many university professors and researchers in Egypt, the typically grueling process of submitting a research paper is simplified to writing a keyword in an online search engine, copying…
Intellectual Abdel Wahab El-Messiery passes away at 70
CAIRO: Intellectual, scholar and coordinator of the Kefaya Movement for Change Abdel Wahab El-Messiery, passed away Thursday at age 70, following a long struggle with terminal illness.The funeral prayers were…