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Culture
Beirut's beautiful people splash out for Ramadan - 2010-09-03
BEIRUT, Mohamad Ali Harissi- "A more beautiful Ramadan," promises an advertisement for one Beirut clinic offering discounts to image-conscious Lebanese during the Muslim holy month of dawn-to-dusk...
Ex-head of Cairo museum in Van Gogh theft warned on security - 2010-09-02
CAIRO- A former director of the Cairo museum from which a Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece was stolen wrote an article in 2007 saying the museum's surveillance cameras were defunct, the official MENA...
Playboy publishes excerpt of new Madame Bovary translation - 2010-08-27
WASHINGTON- The September issue of Playboy will include an excerpt of what the magazine claims on its cover is "The Most Scandalous Novel of All Time" -- the 19th century French novel "Madame...
Ancient Egyptian city found in oasis on desert trade route - 2010-08-27
CAIRO- Archaeologists have uncovered a pharaonic settlement in an Egyptian oasis that may have supplied food for troops along Saharan trade routes, Egypt's antiquities department said on Wednesday....
A long, hot Ramadan for many devout Muslims - 2010-08-10
CAIRO, Christophe de Roquefeuil- Muslims in much of the Middle East will begin the fasting month of Ramadan on Wednesday during an especially gruelling time of the year, with sweltering heat and...
Leftist historian Tony Judt dies at 62: report - 2010-08-08
NEW YORK- Leftist historian and French socialism specialist Tony Judt, who once described himself as a "looney-tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist", has died at his home in Manhattan, aged 62,...
China minister hits out at 'vulgar' modern culture - 2010-08-06
BEIJING- China's culture minister Friday lashed out at "vulgar" popular culture and said few of the thousands of books and films the country produced every year were likely to be regarded as...
Salman Rushdie headlines Brazilian book festival - 2010-08-04
RIO DE JANEIRO- British-Indian author Salman Rushdie and Chilean writer Isabel Allende are set to bring their celebrity to Brazil's biggest literary festival which started Wednesday.
The event,...
Ancient treasure rises from Berlin rubble - 2010-08-03
BERLIN, Francis Curta- When an incendiary bomb hit in World War II, Berlin's Tell Halaf archaeological museum went up in flames and its 3,000-year-old statues were smashed to smithereens.
It has...
Taiwan faces complex language legacy - 2010-08-02
TAIPEI, Peter Harmsen- When Taiwanese scholar Shih Cheng-feng was a boy, he was forced to speak a language that was not his own, and four decades later he still feels handicapped by his education....
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