Winslet, Law and Owen to lead line-up at Berlin film fest
Hollywood heavyweights Kate Winslet, Steve Martin, Jude Law and Clive Owen will headline the next Berlin Film Festival with a clutch of new pictures, organizers said Friday.Winslet is expected at…
Nobel laureates crown U2's Bono 'man of peace'
Nobel peace laureates gathered in Paris on Friday awarded the Irish rocker-turned-activist Bono an annual Man of Peace prize for his crusade to tackle African debt, poverty and disease.Paris Mayor…
Colombian film week kicks off
The Embassy of Colombia in Cairo, in cooperation with the Ministry of Culture, is inaugurating the Colombian Film Week at Cairo Opera House's Artistic Creation Center tonight. The mini-festival is…
A camel caravan, a camera and a map
One of the many images the desert evokes is the infinite paths created by God, but the songs of Arita Baaijens in her latest book "Desert Songs are more earthly…
What is God's zip code?
PHEONIX: "Hi, I'm Anne and I'm a Christian Scientist. "I'm Tex, a Methodist. "I'm John, a member of the LDS church. "I'm Dilara, a Muslim. No, this isn't a religious…
The torturers of Tashkent
NEW YORK: President Islam Karimov's regime in Uzbekistan has survived for 19 years, in no small part because it has resorted time and again to police brutality and torture to…
Cyber insecurity
CAMBRIDGE: In August 2008, Russian troops moved into Georgia. Observers dispute who fired first, but there was a little-noticed dimension of the conflict that will have major repercussions for the…
Egypt's first woman mayor takes role in her stride
KOMBOHA: Eva Habil has just become Egypt s first female mayor but already she seems relaxed in her pioneering role as she strolls around her community clad in jeans and…
52 killed in Egypt bus crash
DAHRUT: At least 52 Egyptians were killed when their bus plunged into a canal south of Cairo on Sunday in the deadliest road accident in Egypt in two decades, officials…
Women's Rights center stresses raising awareness of sexual harassment among children
CAIRO: "Talk to your children about sexual harassment was the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights' (ECWR) message on a seminar Saturday marking the finale of the UN's Sailing the Nile…
