Amer Group expands their North Coast portfolio
CAIRO: Porto Marina welcomed the summer season with the launch of nine residential towers and the introduction of their latest North Coast development, Porto Golf. Amer Group, the developers of…
Austen scam exposes publishers' pride and prejudice
A string of publishers failed to spot blatant plagiarism of one of English literature s most famous authors, in a cheeky test to see if she would have secured a…
KHAWAGA'S TALE: Pyrenees Part 3
I have been vacationing now for two weeks in this French Pyrenees farming village, where every morning feels like a Friday morning: a swim at about 10:30, then collect my…
THE REEL ESTATE: Legacy of a fallen idol
It was exactly seven years ago when Mohammed Heindi, formerly Egyptian cinema s hottest commodity, transported local cinema from the dark grave of a commercial slump to the safe shores…
Haleh Esfandiari, or the evil of an often impressive Iran
Iran is at once impressive yet offensive. I want to embrace it, but it keeps pushing me away through its own misdeeds. Iran is widely demonized in the United States,…
It may soon be too late for Lebanon
In the past two months, Lebanon has witnessed unprecedented levels of violence that threaten to mortally weaken what is left of the country's institutions and governance apparatus. The war that…
Turkey's Choice
In what may be Turkey's most important political event since the republic was founded in the 1920's, the Justice and Development Party (AKP) has won a landslide parliamentary election victory,…
China's industrial mess, and what the West can do about it
The Western media have a habit of going on feeding frenzies. Ironically, when it comes to China, the latest frenzy concerns food itself. The execution two weeks ago of the…
Iraq is much more than just an American problem
Many people around the world are indulging in what the Germans call "schadenfreude : pleasure at the suffering of others. The pleasure appears to be derived from the suffering the…