Aldar lifts Abu Dhabi; most Gulf bourses up
By Nadia Saleem / Reuters DUBAI: Aldar Properties led Abu Dhabi's bourse to a seven-month high on Sunday after Moody's raised its outlook on the developer to positive and Dubai's bourse…
Egypt forex reserves drop slows to $636 mln in February
CAIRO: Egypt's net foreign reserves fell by $636 million in February, the central bank said on its website on Sunday, marking a sign cant slowdown from the sharp decreases of…
Race picks up to head World Bank
By Veronica Smith / AFP WASHINGTON: The race to succeed World Bank president Robert Zoellick is heating up with the emergence of the first declared candidate, another American. Renowned economist Jeffrey…
Hindu protesters disrupt bin Laden movie in India
By AFP Right-wing Hindu activists this week disrupted shooting for Oscar-winner Kathryn Bigelow's movie on the hunt for Osama bin Laden, protesting at the use of Indian locations to portray…
Gilbert and George open dark new show in Hong Kong
By Stephen Coates / AFP British artists Gilbert and George have never shied away from looking the brutal truths of life directly in the eye, and their latest collection, which debuted…
Fanning the flames of justice in Syria
By David Scheffer CHICAGO: Justice will be a long time coming in Syria, but it can begin with a Security Council referral of the situation in that wounded country to the…
American Dervish: A conversation about love, identity and faith
By Naazish YarKhan CHICAGO, Illinois: Ayad Akhtar’s “American Dervish,” set in pre–9/11 American suburbia, is a bold debut novel, where the author seems to hold the American Muslim community by the…
Merkel’s next crisis
By Joschka Fischer BERLIN: With Europe bogged down by the financial crisis and its national governments failing or being voted out of office across the continent, Germany has looked like an…
New York police can do better for Muslim students
By Altaf Husain WASHINGTON, DC: The Associated Press discovery that the New York Police Department (NYPD) monitored Muslim college students both within and outside the city limits in 2006 and 2007…
Freed of Qaddafi, Libya’s instability only deepens
By Maggie Michael / AP BENGHAZI: A large map of Libya hangs on the wall in the home of Idris Al-Rahel, with a line down the middle dividing the country in…