Egypt launches e-registration for new companies
CAIRO: Egypt launched Tuesday a new service allowing for the e-registration of companies, a long awaited step to facilitate the registration of startups and eliminate red-tape in a bid to…
Disney to buy comic book powerhouse Marvel for $4 bln
The Walt Disney Co. is buying Marvel Entertainment Inc. for $4 billion in cash and stock, bringing such characters as Iron Man and Spider-Man into the family of Mickey Mouse…
Iraq's 'Shakira' shakes conservative Kurdistan
Blending traditional folk music with pop beats, sultry gyrations and plunging necklines, the musical phenomenon that is Dashni Murad is shaking Iraq's conservative northern Kurdistan region.In a part of the…
A philosophy lesson for the ages
On Monday night, members of the Scream theater group treated Sawy Culture Wheel's audience to a new production of great Egyptian playwright and poet Salah Abdel-Saboor's famed text "Ma'sat Al-Hallaj…
First Sheikh Jarrah, then Baka?
JERUSALEM: Mike Huckabee recently made a virulently anti-Zionist remark - and the Jews who accompanied him on his tour of east Jerusalem cheered."It concerns me when there are some in…
What happened to Mohamed Al-Hanashi?
NEW YORK: Mohammed Al-Hanashi was a 31-year-old Yemeni citizen who was held at Guantánamo Bay without charge for seven years. On June 3, while I was visiting Guantánamo with other…
The quality of mercy
PRINCETON: The recent release of Abdel Basset Ali Al-Megrahi, the only person convicted of blowing up Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988, sparked outrage. Around the same…
Quo Vadis, Iran?
BERLIN: Iran is in the process of wasting the biggest historical opportunity the country has had since the revolution of 1979, and perhaps even in the last hundred years. This…
The Re-Birth of Japanese Democracy
NEW YORK: Moods and fashions in Japan often arrive like tsunamis, typhoons, or landslides. After more than 50 years of almost uninterrupted power, the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has…
Shifting the focus from al-Megrahi's homecoming
WASHINGTON, DC: The aftermath of the Scottish government's recent release of Abdel Baset Al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence agent who was given a life sentence for the 1988 bombing of…