Jolie, showing directorial debut, says Afghanistan is next
Angelina Jolie says it was only natural that her directorial debut should tackle some of the toughest issues facing humanity and after wartime Bosnia, Afghanistan is likely to be her…
Communist East Germany back in haunting new film
The oppressive world of Communist East Germany was brought back to life in a haunting new film called "Barbara" at the Berlin Film Festival, the first of three German productions…
Egypt from an inventively surrealistic prism
Unlike the case in every other art discipline in the country, it has so far been a great year for the visual arts. With every new exhibition opening, established artists…
An Israeli View: Abbas juggles initiatives while Israel takes none
By Yossi Alpher The Israeli-Palestinian peace process was dead well before the Arab revolutionary wave began a little over a year ago. Nor does it appear likely that the Arab revolutions,…
The ethics of internet piracy
By Peter Singer PRINCETON: Last year, I told a colleague that I would include internet ethics in a course that I was teaching. She suggested that I read a recently published…
New research may hold key to Indonesia’s church-building controversy
By Testriono JAKARTA: In Bogor, a city in Indonesia’s West Java province, the Presbyterian congregation GKI Yasmin has been prohibited by the local administration from holding services in their church for…
The Chancellor who played with fire
By Joschka Fischer BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel should be happy nowadays: her party’s approval ratings aren’t bad, and her own are very good. She no longer has serious rivals within…
Egypt bourse suspends trading on OTMT, Mobinil
CAIRO: Shares in Orascom Telecom Media and Technology (OTMT) and Mobinil have been suspended pending issuance of a joint statement by Mobinil's shareholders, OTMT and France Telecom over Mobinil's fate,…
November mobile phone subscriptions up 22 pct
CAIRO: The number of mobile phone subscriptions in Egypt grew by 22 percent to 81.7 million users in the year to November, government figures showed on Sunday. The number of…
Egypt detains Australian journalist, US student
CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have detained an Australian journalist and an American student on suspicion they had distributed cash to workers and incited them to take part in a strike demanding…