HEALTH MATTERS: How healthy is your brain?
A medical researcher stressed how a healthy diet and a combination of mental and physical activity can boost brain functions and slow down the aging process.Dr Sahar El Uqbi, a…
A tale of two cities, etched in stone
London glam met Cairo oriental in a new jewelry collection launched at Beymen on Wednesday. Two top designers from East and West put their creative heads together for the second…
Static status dressing is out, individual style reigns supreme
PARIS: The Paris menswear collections kicked off Thursday with a focus on individual style, reflecting a downturn in the global economy which has taken the shine off status dressing.The new…
As concern over energy prices grows, firms and states have to get along – but how?
LONDON: Richard Lambert, director of the Confederation of British Industries, stood before an assembly of businesspeople and journalists in this city's spiraling, hypermodern City Hall last week and opened his…
The many talents of George Azmy
If one is to analyze some of the most influential artworks of all time, it s easy to see that a large chunk of them employ a measure of humor.…
An apology
This week, the Prime Minister of Canada made a dramatic statement in Parliament: he apologized to the indigenous peoples of his country for the injustices done to them for generations…
The world after Bush
There is a marvelous painting by Brueghel in the Brussels art gallery. The British poet, W.H. Auden, was sufficiently impressed to write a poem about it. The painting shows Icarus,…
Human rights made whole
On June 18, the United Nations' intergovernmental Human Rights Council took an important step toward eliminating the artificial divide between freedom from fear and freedom from want that has characterized…
With a Grain of Salt: Jokes and the mercy of God!
When I was in the US, a friend of mine told me the most popular jokes around the presidential elections that have been preoccupying the American people day an night…
Confessions of a (M)ad Man: Fear and loathing in the ad world
A friend of mine made an interesting analogy the other day. "Advertising is like porn, he commented, ruefully. "It's filled with people who sell themselves outright, but always harbor dreams…