Editor's Choice

January 20, 2011

Women of Afghanistan need more power and respect.
Gender bias in Afghanistan
07:00 GMT
After nearly 10 years in office, only one cabinet ministry in the Karzai government is led by a woman: the Ministry for Women's Affairs.

January 19, 2011

The importance of unity.
We must fix our own problems
14:00 GMT
Reflections on how a 'united' Arab world should fix its problems before it can put an end to exterior western oppression.
Daniel Craig, the 6th James Bond.
A spy in Dubai
11:00 GMT
Dubai will be the backdrop of the next James Bond adventures.
Twitter home page.
Tunisia's Revolution was Twitterized
07:00 GMT
They said the revolution will not be televised and they were right, it was Twitterized!

January 18, 2011

A woman wears a full face Niqab.
Foreign wives imitating the Saudi way
14:00 GMT
When adopting your host country's social norms become too much.
Students attending university to get their M.B.A degree.
What is the value of your M.B.A?
10:00 GMT
Lebanese graduates question the value of their degrees in today's job market.
Glass is smashed on a car as Afghan soldiers block the scene after a suicide bomber's attack on January 12, 2011 in Kabul.
But where do they get the explosive from?
07:00 GMT
Where do terrorists get the explosives they use to kill innocent people?

January 17, 2011

The opening of a Unicef sponsored Water Scheme close to the Al-Mazraq IDP camps, Al-Mazraq, Yemen, August 14, 2010.
Will Yemen be first to run out of water?
15:00 GMT
Experts cited by CNN say Yemen could be the first nation to completely run out of water in a few years, a prospect that does not bode well for its young population.
A poster showing Lebanese opposition leaders, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri (L) Christian Free Patriotic Movement and MP Michel Aoun (C) and Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah appears on a wall in Beirut.
Three Arab countries become 'Spellbinding"?
13:00 GMT
The Arab world this week is experiencing three extraordinarily interesting models of political action and change – in Sudan, Lebanon and Tunisia.
Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, speaks at the Sun Microsystems Education Conference at the Waldorf Astoria hotel March 9, 2006 in New York City.
Wikipedia plans to reach out to Middle East and humanists in its next decade
08:41 GMT
Wikipedia, the online trove of assorted facts and trivia, is trying to become more well-rounded.

January 16, 2011

According to Farah Salka, feminism is "a word that scares people. People say ‘No, I’m totally not a feminist,’ even when they agree with the same principles I do.”
Nasawiya: Decontaminating 'Feminism'
15:00 GMT
“It’s a word that scares people. People say ‘No, I’m totally not a feminist,’ even when they agree with the same principles I do.”
But is it real?
Abusing the uniform
12:00 GMT
As he raised his rifle at his pretended plain clothes colleagues, they fled the scene leaving Aysar shaken but happy that he survived the incident in one piece...
Can digitalisation beat death?
On memory, digitalisation and death.
09:00 GMT
THE accumulation and transmission of memory from one generation to another is a sustaining motivation to humans.

January 14, 2011

Mark Zuckerberg: the youngest billionaire on the planet.
The beginning of the end for Zuckerberg?
18:43 GMT
At least among my friends, who are mostly professionals in their early twenties, Facebook now resembles a closed address book, hidden away in the internet's bottom drawer.

January 13, 2011

The author, whose sales total at least 300 million in 150 countries, said his work had been selling in Iran since 1998.
Banned in Iran. Free on the Internet - in Farsi.
13:00 GMT
Prominent Brazilian author Paulo Coelho said Monday that the sale of his books had been banned in Iran and he appealed to his country’s government to intervene.