World Press Photo 2006 astounds viewers
Yes it's a cliché, but a picture does speak a thousand words. In fact, a picture may capture meanings that no words can ever express.At the World Press Photo 2006…
Tea, crumpets, and Death on the Nile
Settled on the terrace veranda of the Old Cataract Hotel in Aswan, Agatha Christie began writing one of her famous murder mysteries. Soaking in the heat of the sun, watching…
Meet documentary filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri
Emmy award nominee, documentary filmmaker and secretary general of the Guild of African Filmmakers in the Diaspora, Jihan El-Tahri is best known for "The House of Saud, the bold probe…
The self-inflicted vulnerabilities of Iran's economy
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini once famously said: "Economics is for donkeys. Well, looking at the economy of Iran today it is clear that Iran could do with some more donkeys, in…
Are things coming together for George W. Bush in Iraq?
Doctors use the word "crisis to describe the point at which a patient either starts to recover or dies. President George W. Bush's Iraqi patient now seems to have reached…
Britain tiptoes away in the darkness
"What all of this means is not that Basra is how we want it to be. But it does mean that the next chapter in Basra's history can be written…
Noise is my hobby, says Italian musician who is recycling Cairo's street sounds
CAIRO: Imagine these sounds: Tchuk! - a door shuts close, Chhsschsh - the static sounds on the radio between stations, or Beeeeep - a car horn blasts. Banal? Annoying? Not…
National blood drive will save lives, says doctor
A country-wide blood donation campaign launches to make up for plummeting rates. CAIRO: A public blood donation campaign has intensified recently to counter the dramatic fall in the number of…
Student blogger receives four year prison sentence
CAIRO: Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Soliman Amer, better known by his blog alias 'Kareem Amer', was sentenced to four years in prison for defaming Islam and President Hosni Mubarak on…