Telling stories not stereotypes
September 11 was the beginning of a new era. Like every era, a new enemy was created, subjected to discrimination. "Racial profiling had a new poster boy: he was young,…
Producers of Youssef Chahine's latest film deny problems with censorship
CAIRO: Tackling the murky waters of police corruption, bold cinema director Youssef Chahine's latest offering "Heya Fawda (Is it Chaos?) is causing a stir, even before its producers submit it…
WITH A GRAIN OF SALT: The Satellite Version of History!
The entire Egyptian population must feel indebted to "King Farouk TV series for teaching us our real history. More than half a century later, it helped us discover that the…
Proselytism and the world's religions
HAMBURG: Some months ago, two news items caused excitement: one reported that 4,000 Germans converted to Islam last year, and the other was that a Council of Ex-Muslims had been…
Boycott call
JEDDAH: Hamas call on Arab countries to boycott next month s Middle East summit imprints more question marks over the conference s success, for if the Palestinians, as divided as…
America's houses of cards
There are times when being proven right brings no pleasure. For several years, I argued that America's economy was being supported by a housing bubble that had replaced the stock…
Iraqi refugees on the road to Damascus
For the most part of nearly three decades, interaction between Syrians and Iraqis was minimal, to say the least-restricted to political fugitives from each country residing in Baghdad and Damascus.…
Changing course with Syria
The notion that the focus of the Middle-East conference is to reach an agreement in principle between Israel and the Palestinians, and so other conflicting parties, such as Syria, are…
A fresh start for Europe
As Europe's leaders gather in Portugal to put the finishing touches on the new, slimmed down, Reform Treaty, it might be helpful if they all pretended that the last 50…
MPs, analyst criticize Tantawy's call for harsh punishment for spreading rumors
CAIRO: While civil society organizations are planning to launch a campaign against the press law which allows journalists to be sentenced to prison, Grand Sheikh of Al-Azhar Mohamed Sayed Tantawy…