That’s seriously funny: Comics tackle tough issues
By Matt Moore / AP There are wedding bells in Riverdale, but it's not Archie and Betty or Veronica. It's Army Lt. Kevin Keller and the physical therapist who helped him…
Fluxus in Giza: Rana ElNemr and explorations of process
By Marie-Jeanne Berger “I see long streams, which are heavy, strong, dark and constant … I find them abstract, and rather incomprehensible, flowing recklessly most of the times. I call them…
On Women’s Day, remember our Arab sisters
By Amat Al Alim Alsoswa Arab women have fought bravely over the last year to demand dignity and new freedoms. And their courage has been noted: In December, my Yemeni sister…
Alexander Hamilton’s Eurozone tour
By Harold James PRINCETON: Europe’s debt crisis has piqued Europeans’ interest in American precedents for federal finance. For many, Alexander Hamilton has become a contemporary hero. Perhaps one day his face…
Burma’s turn
By Joseph E. Stiglitz YANGON: Here in Myanmar (Burma), where political change has been numbingly slow for a half-century, a new leadership is trying to embrace rapid transition from within. The…
Turkey’s nation of faiths
By Bülent Arınç ANKARA: After decades of official neglect and mistrust, Turkey has taken several steps to ensure the rights of the country’s non-Muslim religious minorities, and thus to guarantee that…
Twitter adds Arabic and Hebrew home pages
By AFP SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter on Tuesday launched Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi and Urdu versions of its website, further localizing of the popular one-to-many text messaging service. Twitter users have long…
UN sends aid chief to Syria as Obama rejects military force
DAMASCUS: The UN's humanitarian chief heads for Syria Wednesday to urge the regime to let aid into devastated protest cities, with US President Barack Obama insisting military intervention would be…
Iran’s talking point: ‘Dignity’ in nuclear work
By Brian Murphy / AP DUBAI: Days before Iran's just-completed parliamentary elections, the country's supreme leader gave what amounted to a pep rally on the Islamic Republic's nuclear views. Atomic technology…
Libya leader threatens ‘force’ to foil east autonomy bid
By Dominique Soguel / AFP TRIPOLI: Libyan leader Mustapha Abdel Jalil on Wednesday said he would defend national unity "with force" if necessary, after tribal leaders and a political faction declared…