Religiously motivated violence is not religious
By Inayah Rohmaniyah YOGYAKARTA, Indonesia: This Sunday, a suicide bomber attacked a church in Solo, Indonesia, killing at least one congregant and injuring many others. Indonesia, a secular nation, has had…
Polanski on child sex case: 33 years of regret
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski says he has regretted having sex with a teenage girl in 1977 ever since, in his first interview since spending months in a Swiss prison over…
The final destination of ‘The Traveler’
t has been dubbed the “Heaven’s Gate” of Egyptian cinema; the biggest commercial and critical flop in the modern history of local cinema. A bloated, self-conscious art-house wannabe muddled…
Nobel comes days too late for Canadian scientist
WASHINGTON: The ultimate lifetime achievement award came days too late for Canadian Ralph Steinman, who was honored Monday with the Nobel Prize for Medicine for his groundbreaking work on the…
FJP, Al-Wafd still to reconsider joint party list
CAIRO: The Freedom and Justice Party along with Al-Wafd will discuss Tuesday whether the two will contest parliamentary elections on a joint party list, officials announced at a conference late…
Israel ‘increasingly isolated’ in Middle East, says US
TEL AVIV: The Arab Spring has left Israel "increasingly isolated," the US defense secretary said as he arrived in Tel Aviv on Monday, warning military might could not make up…
Nobel Medicine Prize opens week of awards
STOCKHOLM: The 2011 Nobel season opens Monday with the announcement in Stockholm of the Medicine Prize, to be followed over the course of a week by the awards for physics,…
Using the media to amplify Saudi women’s voices
By Maha Akeel JEDDAH: Social media was abuzz with excitement at Saudi King Abdullah’s recent decision to appoint women to the Shura (consultative) Council and to allow them to vote and…
A gender divided
By Naomi Wolf OXFORD: The top and the bottom of the list of countries in Newsweek’s recent cover story, “The 2011 Global Women’s Progress Report,” evoke images of two different worlds.…
Has Palestine won?
By Shlomo Ben Ami TEL AVIV: The somber spectacle of Israel’s isolation during the United Nations debate on Palestinian statehood marks the political tsunami that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s critics warned…