Sudan's Beshir cancels Turkey visit
KHARTOUM: Sudan s President Omar Al-Beshir, the target of an international arrest warrant, has scrapped a visit to Turkey to join key political negotiations in Khartoum, official SUNA news agency…
Movement demands international bodies monitor elections
CAIRO: The recently formed movement "Egyptians for Fair and Free Elections is calling for international supervision over Egypt's parliamentary and presidential elections in 2010 and 2011, respectively. The movement sent…
Kefaya pulls out of campaign against inheritance of power
CAIRO: The Kefaya Movement for Change has pulled out of a coalition campaigning against the inheritance of power due to disagreements over ties with US officials.The disagreement arose over the…
African, Chinese companies meet at match-making session
SHARM EL-SHEIKH: Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao pledged $10 billion for investment in Africa at the third triennial Forum for China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC), topping investments of $7.8 billion in 2008. On-hand…
Lessons learned: Going back to mortgage finance basics
CAIRO: With Egypt's demand for affordable housing growing and a thirst for the development of the mortgage industry, the American Chamber of Commerce hosted an event yesterday to bring the…
Carrey's Scrooge rings in Hollywood holiday spirit
Hollywood loves money. So does Ebenezer Scrooge. So what better way to launch the holiday season than putting the old money-grubber at the head of the line to separate movie-goers…
Reviving the art of storytelling
During the primeval era, when humans walked nude and anything beyond the borders of man's immediate territory was inconceivable, people didn't know how to read and write. Storytelling was the…
Tragedy in service of reconciliation
TEL AVIV: The face of the conflict in the recent war in Gaza was indeed the face of Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish. His call for help, broadcast live on primetime Israeli…
A new world architecture
NEW YORK: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism, the world is facing another stark choice between two fundamentally different forms of organization:…
More walls to fall
MOSCOW: The German people, and the whole world alongside them, are celebrating a landmark date in history, the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Not many events…