Three held after fire bomb bid in Cairo metro
CAIRO: Police in Egypt have arrested three men accused of throwing a petrol bomb in a metro station in the capital last month, a police official said on Thursday.The three,…
Iraq court jails Bush shoe-thrower for three years
BAGHDAD: The Iraqi journalist who shot to fame for hurling his shoes at former US president George W. Bush was jailed for three years on Thursday, stirring outrage from his…
Standoff over Sudan president could drag on
KHARTOUM: State radio has been broadcasting a message each morning since Sudan s president became a wanted man: Long live Sudan, free and defiant. President Omar Al-Beshir s response to…
Mubarak appoints two new ministers
CAIRO: President Hosni Mubarak issued a decree Wednesday, appointing Ambassador Moushira Khattab minister of state for family and population and Mohamed Nasser Al-Din as minister of water resources and irrigation,…
Ten companies to introduce new fertilizer to Egypt
CAIRO: The Egyptian fertilizer industry, among this country's least glamorous but most important, is about to become a bit more diverse.Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif approved a batch of licenses this…
In a sea of words, an American translator searches for herself
In war, identities are polished and wrecked, all at once. Some prophecies are fulfilled, others are never realized. Sometimes war leaves nothing behind; for Zeina Bahnam, the only thing war…
Magnificent 'Russian Hamlet' conquers Egypt
There is a well known guiding principle in the contemporary arts: No matter how experimental an artist wishes to be, he/she must study the classics. This week, the St. Petersburg…
Artists flee Pakistan's Swat valley to escape fanatics' threats
Mohammad Shahid scrapes together a living in a city slum by painting birds, flowers, animals and celebrity portraits onto minibuses - and vows never to return to the horrors of…
Why bipartisanship is good politics
LONDON: Bipartisanship seems to have taken a drubbing in Washington since President Barack Obama got to the White House.Like most recent American presidents, Obama campaigned on a promise to work…
Taming the tigers
BRUSSELS: Three years ago, Sri Lanka elected Mahinda Rajapaksa as president because he pledged to take the offensive against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, the guerillas who have been…