29 July 2010, 9:01 am
Lynne Stewart, the jailed Downtown radical ex-lawyer awaiting resentencing July 15 on charges of materially aiding an Islamic terrorist conspiracy abroad, can still rouse a crowd of committed lefties on a steamy summer night in Greenwich Village.... Read More »
26 July 2010, 5:56 pm
Egyptian Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni announced on Monday that one of ancient Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun's chariots will be exhibited in New York city.... Read More »
26 July 2010, 4:14 am
Cairo - A chariot that might have been involved in the death of Pharaoh Tutankhamen will be sent to New York to join an ongoing exhibition on the ancient Egyptian ruler, the Culture Ministry in Cairo said Monday.... Read More »
24 July 2010, 2:15 am
Two road accidents killed 16 people and injured 22 south of the Egyptian capital, according to authorities.... Read More »
22 July 2010, 1:43 am
Kuwait, 22 July, 2010. Jazeera Airways Jazeera Airways , the Middle East's leading regional carrier (KSE: Jazeera, Bloomberg: Jazeera KK, Reuters: JAZK.KW) and Visa have identified 30 winners for their first three weekly draws.... Read More »
20 July 2010, 4:53 pm
After the ban on mawlids due to swine flu, those saints' anniversaries finally started again on 13 April at the Imam Hussein Mosque. I attended the leila el kbira (big night, the night of the actual birth of the saint in question) on 19 May at Sayeda Nafisa: coloured light bulbs and hangings, carpet... Read More »
20 July 2010, 3:16 pm
Some of my happiest moments - as well as my most enriching and enlightening moments - have come through travel: my first trip out of Athens when I was 11 (to Paris); my first trip to America when I was 16; traveling around India at 17, riding third class but getting a first-class education. It's why... Read More »
19 July 2010, 9:31 am
King Tut is certainly more famous now than in his own time. The boy king died suddenly at the age of 19, before he could make a monument, or even a name, for himself. But just look at him now. He, or at least his stuffthe gilded masks, the lapis lazuli necklaces, the ornate thronesis on a second blo... Read More »
16 July 2010, 10:02 am
The sky is bright blue, the sand bright white, the sea perfect, and theres not a soul on the beach. The only other visitors are a couple of young goatherds in fluttering white gowns or djellabas, and football shirts, who pose for me as they lead their blank-eyed charges to freshwater wells.... Read More »
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