Gulf markets down on low buying interest; Egypt up
DUBAI/CAIRO: Lack of buying interest weighed on Gulf markets on Thursday, while investors in Egypt digested news of a planned narrower-than-expected budget deficit and its possible impact on the country's…
‘Expedition Impossible’ is a Moroccan adventure
"Survivor" producer Mark Burnett has found yet another way to toy with gung-ho contestants in his new ABC series, "Expedition Impossible," which sends 13 three-person teams on a trek across…
THE REEL ESTATE: A fateful journey into the dark soul of Russia
What is the Russian soul? That is the questions great novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky spent his life trying to answer, an elusive question that never left me during my trip to…
A perfect storm of butterflies
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: History and prose join at the hip. Richard, Duke of Gloucester’s opening words in Shakespeare’s Richard III: Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer…
The Middle East’s slow-motion revolution
By El Hassan Bin Talal AMMAN: There seem to be a thousand and one interpretations of the changes sweeping across the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. One response…
Can Egyptian solidarity inspire Israelis and Palestinians?
By Khaled Diab JERUSALEM: It was not a good start to 2011. The massive explosion during midnight mass that tore through St. Mark and St. Peter's Church in Alexandria, killing 21…
Asia after the Afghan War
By Yuriko Koike TOKYO: July will mark two milestones in America’s sometimes-tortured relations with Asia. One is the beginning of the end of the nearly decade-long struggle in Afghanistan — the…
Tunnel business, security vacuum main concerns for Arish residents
By Tamim Elyan Al-Arish: Two pickup trucks loaded with machine guns carrying armed Bedouins roam the streets of Al-Arish in demonstration of power, intimidating the residents of the otherwise tranquil Sinai…
Mideast Christians struggle to hope in Arab Spring
VENICE: Middle East Christians are struggling to keep hope alive with Arab Spring democracy movements promising more political freedom but threatening religious strife that could decimate their dwindling ranks. Scenes…
US Congressman calls on Egypt to release ‘spy’
JERUSALEM: US Congressman Gary Ackerman called on Egyptian authorities Wednesday to release a constituent and former intern whom Egypt accuses of being an Israeli spy. Ilan Grapel was arrested at…
