THE REEL ESTATE: Another bad day at the local movie theater
My movie-going experience goes way back to the late eighties when I entered a film theater in Egypt for the first time to watch some Warner Brothers cartoons in one…
Ideas for the secretary general of the Disunited Nations
The good news for Ban Ki-Moon is that he has become secretary general of the United Nations at a time when the prospects for conflict between or among the world's…
The US is taking us for a ride on the peace process
The Bush administration's Middle East policy has been a failure. Not only has the promised "new Middle East not seen the light of day but, Iraq, the country Washington had…
The new cold war in Beirut and Palestine
Lebanon and Palestine are the most dramatic examples of the new ideological battle that now defines much of the Middle East, where local players and medium-strength regional powers often interact…
War of Ideas: Insurgent channel spreads its wings
A controversial TV channel that is the voice of Iraq's anti-American insurgents looks set to launch another front in the propaganda war against the U.S. The head of al-Zawraa, which…
From Vietnam to Egypt, bird flu still raging across continents
Associated PressVINH THUAN, Vietnam: Even before the boat drifts into sight, all senses are alerted to its cargo - a chorus of raucous quacking mixed with an unmistakable stench.About 1,400…
Mother-in-law angry in sympathy with Saddam!
CAIRO: This is one of the oddest but most amusing of complaints that might have ever come to the media's notice. An Iraqi widow who resided with her Egyptian mother-in-law…
BBC documentary allegedly slanders Egyptian doctor
CAIRO: Mohamed Al Taranissi, an Egyptian London-based fertility doctor, was the subject of a smear campaign in the famous BBC's popular Panorama program.The documentary, which was aired in the UK…