Unearthing Islam's hidden history
A few days after 9/11, Michael H. Morgan, author and founder of New Foundations for Peace NGO, was asked to write a speech for a business corporation. The speech was…
Dutch film wins children's film prize despite anti-Islam furore
CAIRO: The International Cairo Children's Film Festival that briefly banned Dutch entries because of a Netherlands MP s anti-Islam film, took the surprising move on Thursday of awarding a prize…
With a Grain of Salt: False Wolves!
These days literary circles in the US and Europe are preoccupied with the acclaimed book by Belgian-born Jewish author Misha Defonseca, who had written about her childhood in the Nazi…
Keeping Pakistan's military away from politics
The clean sweep by opposition parties in the recently held national elections has uprooted President Musharraf´s party, putting his future at risk. Asif Zardari, leader of the Pakistan People´s Party…
Malaysia's Opposition Reborn
In Malaysia's recent elections, opposition parties managed their strongest showing since the country gained its independence from Britain in 1957, cutting the ruling coalition's parliamentary majority to below two-thirds. Where…
Turkey's gripping pains of modernisation
It was a tense week for the Turkish parliament during the headscarf amendment debates. Despite massive demonstrations organized by secular Kemalist institutions, the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) took…
The Oven: A buyer's guide
Squashed like a skinny sardine between two expansive abaya-donned housewives, I spy a needle eyed gap, and take a swift dive towards the front of the bread queue. It is…
Prices, protests and poverty in the provinces
QALYUBEYA: Mohamed Al-Fiqi sat on the wooden couch in the unpainted and scantly-furnished living room. "Your father may come home with fruit, but I won't come home with fruit, he…
Zakzouk supports calls to equate women to men in court testimonies
CAIRO: Minister of Religious Endowment Mahmoud Hamdy Zakzouk, announced his full support for a request from Zeinab Radwan, deputy speaker of the People's Assembly (PA) and member of the National…