Mermaids and crocodiles for your chest
What is Egyptian jewelry? If Khan El-Khalili market is any way to judge, then silver kafs and turquoise eyes are "Egyptian jewelry. But after four thousand years and multiple heritages,…
Mufti Ali Gomaa calls for restrictions on issuing fatwas
CAIRO: Ali Gomaa, Egypt s top Mufti, requested that all Islamic institutions put a unified standard to which all sheikhs in the world should adhere, when it comes to issuing…
Poll of Muslim Americans finds them largely moderate, well-integrated
A poll of Muslim Americans released last Tuesday by The Pew Research Center found them largely integrated and content with mainstream American society. However, despite their general moderation, Muslim Americans…
Books, art, music and a really impressive festival by AUC Press
The annual Book, Art and Music Festival provided all those elements last night: new book releases, an innovative art exhibition featuring top local artists and melodious music by crooners Sobhi…
Banana stems, an alternative to wood?
CAIRO: The remains of the banana trees are perhaps one of the commonest and cheapest leftovers of plantations, but they continue to be the least exploited despite their abundance worldwide,…
Look, yet another 'new' American policy in Iraq
President George W. Bush and his senior military and foreign-policy advisers are beginning to discuss a "post-surge strategy for Iraq which they hope could gain bipartisan political support. The new…
Some useful lessons from the Northern Ireland process
Today, we all can feel good about Northern Ireland. Protestants and Catholics--Unionists and Republicans in local parlance--are about to jointly run their government. Belfast, for decades the scene of urban…
The World Bank after Wolfowitz
Paul Wolfowitz - former U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense, one of the most influential neoconservatives of President George W. Bush's administration and a key architect of the Iraq war -…
KHAWAGA'S TALE: The Arab Street, where the customer is king
Guide books and a newspaper's postcards from abroad love the "man on the street story. A favorite is the Arab Street, a snapshot of life somewhere in the Middle East…
