Victoria Beckham on reality TV
LOS ANGELES: Victoria Beckham is reportedly to be the star of a new TV reality show chronicling her and footballer husband David s move to Los Angeles. Hollywood s industry…
Sci-tech: Broadband consumables, legally
Going to the cinema, playing DVDs, or just watching television is starting to become a thing of the past. They are each starting to drag their romantic semantics of 'the…
Designing healthy babies
Manipulating embryonic genes to avoid diseaseHave you ever wondered what you or your children would look like with different colored eyes, hair or any other feature? More importantly, if you…
Enough gladiator games, the Middle East must talk
Suddenly; the diplomatic season seems to have broken out all over the Middle East. The main players perhaps have seen the looming catastrophe that hovers over this region, and decided…
Philanthropy and Development Conference presents new research, calls for waqf revival
CAIRO: The first conference tackling Philanthropy and Development in Egypt brought together nearly 400 individuals from the public, private, educational, and civil society sectors Wednesday to address how NGOs can…
Of tragic heroines, the Arab world, and Antigone
A local production of Sophocles' "Antigone in a contemporary settingIt is a somber atmosphere created by dark surroundings that are only dispelled by hues of suffocated light. The floor is…
From Baghdad to New Orleans, climate at chaos' edge
The scientific debate about whether there is a global warming problem is pretty much over. A leading international group of climate scientists reported last month that the evidence of global…
Egypt Museum airs 1,000 years of jackal god gifts
CAIRO: A thousand years worth of offerings to an ancient Egyptian jackal god are the subject of an exhibition that opened on Thursday at Cairo s Egyptian Museum. The exhibition,…
Egyptian feminist faces lawsuit over 'blasphemous' play
CAIRO: Sunni Islam s highest institute of learning Al-Azhar said Thursday it was preparing to sue Egyptian feminist Nawal Al-Saadawi for a play she wrote, which it describes as blasphemous.…