SCI-TECH SCENE: Intel targets 'pocketable Internet'
The Intel Atom processor will be the name for a new family of low-power processors designed specifically for mobile Internet devices (MIDs) and a new class of simple and affordable…
Leo Burnett agency of the year at MENA Cristal Awards 2008
BEIRUT/DUBAI: Leo Burnett MENA has triumphed as Agency of the Year at the third edition of the MENA Cristal Awards, 2008. In addition to the highly sought after title, the…
EU cautiously agrees on closer ties with Mediterranean rim
BRUSSELS, Belgium: French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Friday he won unanimous backing for his plan to forge closer political ties with Europe s North African and Mideast neighbors on the…
Unearthing Islam's hidden history
A few days after 9/11, Michael H. Morgan, author and founder of New Foundations for Peace NGO, was asked to write a speech for a business corporation. The speech was…
Dutch film wins children's film prize despite anti-Islam furore
CAIRO: The International Cairo Children's Film Festival that briefly banned Dutch entries because of a Netherlands MP s anti-Islam film, took the surprising move on Thursday of awarding a prize…
With a Grain of Salt: False Wolves!
These days literary circles in the US and Europe are preoccupied with the acclaimed book by Belgian-born Jewish author Misha Defonseca, who had written about her childhood in the Nazi…
Keeping Pakistan's military away from politics
The clean sweep by opposition parties in the recently held national elections has uprooted President Musharraf´s party, putting his future at risk. Asif Zardari, leader of the Pakistan People´s Party…
Malaysia's Opposition Reborn
In Malaysia's recent elections, opposition parties managed their strongest showing since the country gained its independence from Britain in 1957, cutting the ruling coalition's parliamentary majority to below two-thirds. Where…
Turkey's gripping pains of modernisation
It was a tense week for the Turkish parliament during the headscarf amendment debates. Despite massive demonstrations organized by secular Kemalist institutions, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) took…
The Oven: A buyer's guide
Squashed like a skinny sardine between two expansive abaya-donned housewives, I spy a needle eyed gap, and take a swift dive towards the front of the bread queue. It is…
