The naked identity of Nadine Hammam
It isn't every day, or any day for that matter, that one would stumble into a gallery in Cairo that's hosting a collection of nude paintings. It's even rarer to…
Prize-winning author sheds novel light on historic mystery
Australian author Geraldine Brooks admits her latest book, with its drunken priest, gambling rabbi and Muslim librarian, is "rather like the set-up of a very bad joke. But the Pulitzer…
Banal, unnecessary reflections of cultural schizophrenia
There's nothing special about being a child of globalization. In fact, it's rather mundane. If I had to count how many of my friends and family are the products of…
A musical dialogue: Rania Shaalan's music
Had Rania Shaalan picked a bicycle instead of a piano when given the choice on her seventh birthday, perhaps she wouldn't have been singing at El-Sawy Culture Wheel last Tuesday.…
The Revolution that Wasn't
It is May 1968. The world, flabbergasted, discovers that France has gone crazy. A general strike, affecting everything except electricity and the press, brings the country to a halt. No…
Moroccans shun violent extremism
Between Afghanistan and America, situated at the crossroads of Eastern and Western civilizations, lies a low-key ally in the fight against religious intolerance and extremism: Morocco.Despite the headlines painting this…
A historic compromise under threat
With both Israelis and Palestinians commemorating 60-year anniversaries at this time, it is instructive to look at what the respective sides are remembering. For Israelis, 1948 brought independence and statehood.…
Word on the Street: Egyptians too occupied with local problems to remember Nakba
CAIRO: May 15, 1948 marks the 60th anniversary of Al-Nakba, or the catastrophe , on which Israel announced itself an independent state on Palestinian land. "Sixty years after the Israelis…
Abu Omar's wife describes his alleged torture in Egypt
MILAN: The wife of an Egyptian cleric taken from a Milan street, allegedly as part of the CIA s extraordinary rendition program, wept Wednesday as she described her husband s…
Education Ministry to evaluate teachers before applying new law
CAIRO: The Education Administration in Giza, which falls under the Ministry of Education, has announced it is soon to conduct trials on a new examination aimed at assessing the professional…