Of bells and minarets
PARIS: When Jerusalem was conquered in 635 AD, the second caliph Omar…
4-bank consortium covers $1.05 billion loan
CAIRO: Four Egyptian banks formed a consortium to cover a syndicate loan…
Listen to Me!
SAN FRANCISCO: Last week, I wrote a 140-character hotel review on Twitter:…
Snuba mixes snorkeling and scuba
Breathing underwater was a strange sensation. It was even stranger because I…
Conference discusses women's rights in MENA region
CAIRO: The Alliance for Arab Women, Karama and UNIFEM organized two conferences…
A foot in both cultures
NEW YORK: The American dream lured El-Sayed El-Deeb to New York City…
Monument lifted from Cleopatra's underwater city
ALEXANDRIA: Archaeologists on Thursday hoisted a 9-ton temple pylon from the waters…
Violence against women is not a tenet of Islam
GLENDALE HEIGHTS, Illinois: Listening to the radio one day, I was shocked…
A velvet climate revolution?
BUDAPEST: In the discussions now underway in Copenhagen, the fate of Earth's…
Missing DNA can promote childhood obesity: study
Some children get severely obese because they lack particular chunks of DNA,…