Ahead of Valentine's Day, kissing sees new world record
MANILA: More than 6,000 couples kissed simultaneously at midnight Saturday in the Philippines with organizers of the event claiming to have set a new world record.Organizers of the annual pre-Valentine…
Strike ends in Kafr El Dawwar, but problems linger
KAFR EL DAWWAR: Thousands of factory workers and townspeople poured out of the Kafr El Dewar Textile Factory on Thursday afternoon, after negotiations by state-appointed union representatives and a host…
Intellectual illiteracy is the greatest challenge facing the Arab World
CAIRO: Arab youth are undeniably at a crossroads. On the one hand they are dealing with modernism and western standards introduced into conservative societies. Meanwhile, Arab culture has become engrossed…
Truck loaded with gas explodes south of Giza, no casualties
GIZA: The village of Temoua was rocked early Saturday morning when a truck loaded with gas tanks belonging to the Misr Petroleum Company unexpectedly exploded. The blast occurred, according to…
Arab women entrepreneurs and SMEs: challenges and realities
Towards the end of 2006, the Euro-Mediterranean Ministers in their meeting at Turkey, stressed the need for strengthening the role of women in their societies. A framework and action plan…
Where to, after the Mecca agreement?
The most significant thing about the national unity government agreement signed Thursday by Hamas and Fatah in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, under Saudi auspices was that it was signed in Mecca…
How not to lose your soul in American journalism
Last month, a group gathered in New York City to celebrate the 80th birthday of Charles Peters, one of the true revolutionaries in modern journalism. For more than 30 years,…
'Green militancy' hinders better ways to do the planet good
You would have had to be stuck in deepest Mongolia to avoid hearing that the United Nations climate panel, the IPCC, issued a new report last week. Perhaps even in…
Demise of Valentine's Day?
The greeting card industry has the world by the short and curlies with the genius of February 14th. Products packaged directly for romantic love, with the killer guilt add-on, if…
The domino art effect has spread: could it now be the Arab's turn?
Egyptian art fetches record auction price at Christie s For a while it looked as if the Middle East had found a place on the international art map as a…
