by Dalya Assem | Aug 22, 2016 | Lifestyle & Culture
Alexandria- Visitors will soon have access to the house of late Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser after Dr. Nivine al-Kailani, the head of Cultural Development Fund, announced that the house will be transformed into a library after a reparation process that took...
by Yousef Al-Dayni | Aug 27, 2015 | Opinion
I wrote this article after I decided to free myself of the burden of fear that characterized many of the past attempts to criticize Mohamed Hassanein Heikal, the man who contributed to the failure of Gamal Abdel Nasser’s pan-Arab project more than its imaginary...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | May 3, 2015 | Opinion
I recently visited Cuba, as I wanted to see this country—one that almost caused a third world war, and which along with North Korea is the world’s last remaining insular communist nation—before it finally begins to open up to the world and become like other...
by Ali Ibrahim | Dec 24, 2014 | Opinion
The media wars in the Arab world that erupted before and after the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings are well-known to ordinary people who switch between Arab and international news channels in order to familiarize themselves with the different points of view or angles of...
by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Sep 23, 2014 | Features
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—As one of Muammar Gaddafi’s closest aides, Ahmed Gaddaf Al-Dam—also Gaddafi’s cousin—was often sent by the late dictator to put out fires abroad caused by Gaddafi’s own, often idiosyncratic, foreign policies. However, on one occasion in 1977,...
