Picasso work loaned to West Bank goes on display
A Palestinian art academy on Monday put on display a $7 million Pablo Picasso masterpiece, the first of its kind in the West Bank. Picasso's 1943 "Buste de Femme" is…
Silence less golden in movies with talking, texts
It seems like such a quaint notion: Folks would go to the movie theater, buy their tickets at the box office, then sit down, shut up and pay attention for…
Hip-hop the soundtrack of the Arab spring?
By Rose Hackman/Common Ground News Service Behind the scenes of the Arab spring since late 2010, hip-hop with a political twist has become a soundtrack to pro-democracy movements across the Middle…
Panel advises rejecting challenge to Egypt’s TMG
CAIRO: A judicial panel has recommended that a court reject a legal challenge that sought to scrap the sale of state land to real estate developer Talaat Moustafa Group (TMG),…
Risk of terrorism in Egypt decreasing due to democratization, analysts conclude
CAIRO: While many observers traditionally feared an increased risk of terrorist activity in Egypt if Mubarak and his iron-fisted approach to counterterrorism fell, many security analysts now see the risk…
Who’s in cahoots with whom?
By Philip Whitfield CAIRO: Remember the double entendre? Hercule Poirot: Love is not everything. Jacqueline De Bellefort: Oh, but it is. Poirot: It is terrible mademoiselle all that I have missed…
On religion and public Space
By Eboo Patel and Samantha Kirby When a suicide bomb exploded as worshippers left New Year’s mass at a Coptic church in Alexandria, 21 people died and 79 were wounded. It’s…
A confused western intervention
By Roberto Aliboni While strategically sensible, the western intervention in Libya to implement United Nations Security Council Resolution 1973 is confused in many respects. In particular, the western nations seem poorly…
Let them eat t-shirts: The WSJ’s four-minute solution
By David Faris The neoliberal critique of post-revolutionary Egyptian politics is emerging, and the argument goes something like this: by caving in to demands for social justice, subsidies and welfare, the…
Muslim body urges ‘modern’ secular Egypt
By AFP CAIRO: Egypt’s Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam's top center of religious learning, called on Monday for a "modern, democratic" and secular state in Egypt where places of worship are protected.…
