THE REEL ESTATE: Cinema in the shadows of 9/11
As much as I d like to deny this, I was actually watching a dim-witted Egyptian comedy in a Masr El Gedida theater the moment the two towers collapsed on…
Arab, foreign films wash up on Alexandria's shores
Twenty-three years have lapsed since the first Alexandria International Film Festival, and the legacy continues as Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni inaugurated the film festival last Friday at the Sayid…
Standup for peace
NEW YORK CITY: In June 2002, a Jewish-American comedian and a Palestinian-American comedian boarded a cross-town bus in Manhattan. By the time the bus had crossed from the East to…
Political constraints on the Olmert-Abbas talks: Fuit en avant
Israeli PM Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are both experienced politicians. At least for the moment, they seem perfectly capable of ignoring the internal political critics of their…
Political constraints on the Olmert-Abbas talks: Israeli aggression must end
While Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert appear to believe that they are making political progress, they will need the encouragement and support of the United…
To the garbage dump of history
Ehud Olmert and Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) - the former a head of state who enjoys little of the trust of his people, the latter the president of an entity…
The History Man
President George W. Bush is not generally known for his firm grasp of history. But this has not stopped him from using history to justify his policies. In a recent…
Block Thinking
"Multiculturalism has become a suspect term almost everywhere in the world nowadays, and particularly in Europe. People say things like: "I used to be for openness and toleration of difference,…
Unicef calls on Egypt to stop female circumcision
GENEVA: The UN children s fund on Monday called for pressure to be maintained to stop female circumcision in Egypt, where more than three quarters of 15 to 17 year-old…
Poet, author file complaint against Muslim cleric for inciting violence
CAIRO: A number of intellectuals including famed poet, Ahmed Abdel Mutie Higazy and author Gamal El Ghitany have filed a complaint at the Public Prosecutor's office against Muslim cleric, Youssef…