US embassy nominee vows to promote democracy in Egypt
WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush's nominee for ambassador to Egypt, brushing aside…
Slam poetry with a French touch
In another cold, windy evening at the French Cultural Center's theater in…
Indonesia´s green madrassas
In a remote part of Central Java, Indonesia's most populous island, there…
Turkey's parliament debates lifting Islamic head scarf ban at universities
ANKARA: Turkish legislators opened debate Wednesday on one of their secular but…
Islamic finance is going global
The 2008 Islamic Finance Festival (FES) was held in Jakarta from Jan.…
New Internet cable being laid in Mediterranean off Egypt coast
CAIRO: After dramatic Internet outages that engulfed a large swath of the…