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100 Years of liberation
While the Supreme Council for Culture's headquarters, located in the Opera House grounds, prepares for celebrations to mark the hundredth anniversary of the publication of Qasim Amin's controversial book "The Liberation of Women" |
New departures for UNESCO?
As results of the elections for the new director-general of UNESCO emerged yesterday, Daniel Robertson in Paris reviews the campaigns and the French press's reactions to them
Enter the generals
After a crackdown on the opposition and a purge of the ruling party, Pakistan's new strongman, General Pervez Musharraf, is consolidating his hold on power by courting the US, writes Faiza Rady
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Advocating Arabic
 A recent ministerial decree banning the use of foreign names in commercial enterprises has sparked a heated controversy -- yet again. Fayza Hassan looks back on 150 years of advertising allure, and the cultural territory at stake |
Dancing into the twilight
In A Heart in the Junkyard, the Rida Troupe's latest work at the Balloon Theatre, Nehad Selaiha finds faint reminders of former glories
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Hijack ends
A LONE hijacker armed with a knife surrendered to German police in Hamburg Tuesday night, three hours after commandeering an EgyptAir flight Boeing 737-500 from Istanbul to Cairo.
Habibie out
EXPLOSIONS and clashes rocked Jakarta yesterday as tens of thousands of angry supporters of defeated presidential candidate, opposition leader Megawati Sukarnoputri, stormed angrily through the streets around the parliament complex, burning tyres and stoning security forces, who answered back by firing tear gas and warning shots.
Open passage
A SAFE passage route allowing Palestinians to travel from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip will open next week after Israeli and Palestinian negotiators overcame the last hurdles delaying the opening, Israel's Public Security Ministry said yesterday.
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