Gunmen bomb Egypt gas pipeline to Israel, Jordan
By Hatem El-Buluk Al-ARISH: A group of unidentified gunmen bombed early Monday a gas pipeline through which Egypt exports to Jordan and Israel, the third attempt to blow up the…
French boat symbolically ‘sets sail’ for Gaza
ATHENS: Pro-Palestinian activists on a French boat protested Monday by symbolically "setting sail" on the flotilla for Gaza, revving up their engines in an Athens port in defiance of a…
Bai Ling reveals dark memories of Chinese army
Actress Bai Ling said she is confronting a dark chapter from her past: sexual abuse she suffered as a teenager at the hands of Chinese army officers. Bai, 44, who…
Ibrahim El-Batout on ‘Hawi’, his upcoming movie and future of cinema
F ive years ago, former war reporter and documentary filmmaker Ibrahim El-Batout was another aspiring filmmaker with an atypical vision deemed incongruous with the homogenous local film scene. A couple…
The Cincinnati kid, Ali and The Hustler
CAIRO: In the salons the tassel-loafer lounge lizards glad-hand groupies. Revolution? A bump in the road, they bluster. The tables will turn, you’ll see. Or will they? The government is…
Cutting the fog: Multiculturalism, religion and the common good
By Sara Silvestri The death of “multiculturalism” has been proclaimed repeatedly recently, the idea pronounced with a big “M” as if we were talking of something tangible around which there…
Should China be ‘contained’?
By Joseph Nye CAMBRIDGE: This month marks the 40th anniversary of Henry Kissinger’s secret trip to Beijing, which launched the process of mending a 20-year breach in diplomatic relations between…
In Lebanon, dialogue as a solution
By Sheikh Hani Fahs BEIRUT: The Taif Agreement, ratified in 1989, brought the Lebanese civil war to an end and ushered in a new era for Lebanon. The Agreement emphasized…
Five Ismailia workers on strike arrested
By Safaa Abdoun CAIRO: The military police has arrested five workers at companies affiliated with the Suez Canal Authority on Sunday who have been on strike in Ismalia since June…
Court allows Christian reconverts to state religion on ID cards
By Heba Fahmy CAIRO: Egypt’s Supreme Administrative Court ruled on Sunday in favor of Christian reconverts, allowing them to be identified as Christians on their national ID cards and birth…
