NEW DELHI: In perhaps a first, as many as 25 filmmakers including four from India, have put their heads and directorial skills together and made a film ‘The Owner’ which premieres worldwide on May 25. Even if the film does not find favor with audiences, it could well make its way into the Guinness Book [...]
SANA’A: Although much has been written on legendary Queen Sheba, Yemen’s most prominent figure in history, little is actually known of this mysterious monarch, which the legend has it met with prophet Suleiman, a pivotal religious figure in all three monotheist religions. Legends of the Queen of Sheba are common throughout Arabia, Persia, Ethiopia, Israel [...]
The United Nations Education group UNESCO met on May 16, ahead of IDAHOT on Thursday, to discuss how to effectively combat anti-LGBT bullying across the globe. A meeting on Effective Policy and Practice to Address Homophobic Bullying in Educational Institutions is set to take place at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on Wednesday, the eve of [...]
NEW DELHI: ‘Kali Ma’ a beer launched by an American company has begun fizzing even before being sold in India. The Indian Parliament on Wednesday heard an animated discussion by its parliamentarians who now want the government ask the United States Ambassador to apologize for using the name of a Hindu goddess ‘Kali Ma’ or [...]
New Delhi: In a typical illustration of the long winding patriarchal Indian political discourse, the country’s parliamentarians want to stop the “indecent portrayal of women”. Cut down to basics, Indian MPs now want sexy, pouting women off television, especially in advertisements which they believe reduces woman to a commodity. Ad film makers and broadcasters in [...]
CAIRO and KUALA LUMPUR: An Indonesian lawmaker has said that “Middle East culture” is as dangerous as allowing American pop star Lady Gaga to perform in the Southeast Asian country. The statements came after Indonesia refused to issue Gaga a permit to perform at her sold-out Jakarta concert as Islamists in the country attacked her [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: Suzie* is a lesbian. A Malaysian lesbian. Yet she struggles with her daily life. When she speaks openly about her life, many accuse her of trying to “convert” other girls to being gay. “It’s daily, people will ask me what it is like to be a lesbian in Malaysia and I tell them,” [...]
Nasik, India – It is the day after Holi, the Hindu festival of colours celebrating the Spring season and a good harvest. Coloured powder from the previous day’s events still adorns downtown Nasik, a city of 1.5 million about three and a half hours east of Mumbai. A group of youngsters, all dressed in traditional [...]
Islamabad – Hunched on the floor of Gurdwara Sis Ganj, a Sikh temple in New Delhi, Khurshid Ahmad Khan, Pakistan’s Deputy Attorney General, earnestly polished the shoes of devotees flocking to him either in delight or amazement. To him, polishing shoes served as penance for the brutal killing of a Sikh man at the hands [...]
New Delhi: The first few scented tendrils of fragrance of civil resurgence has started wafting slowly into the north eastern Indian states which border Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, the home of Aung San Suu Kyi. The electoral victories of Aung Suu Kyi has appeared to have triggered off a domino effect across Myanmar to [...]
A new online portal has launched with the aim of boosting English language learning online for Middle East students. Inglisi.com is currently the only online website offering free courses for Arabic speakers. According to a press release sent to Bikyamasr.com, “course material for Inglisi.com was developed by Oxford & Cambridge Universities and Trinity College of [...]
New Delhi: India is fast losing its sense of humor. And the Indian parliament, it appears is only hastening the death of tongue-in-cheek caricature. At a time when the top political executives in the country including Home minister P Chidambaram faces corruption charges in a telecom scam, the Prime Minister is accused of sheltering the [...]
Goa (INDIA): The chief minister of the Western Indian state of Goa has said that he was planning to pen a ‘bestselling’ memoir on his political life, which he claims will be a hilarious read, because politics and governance in one of India’s smallest states are sometimes extremely “comic”. “I am now thinking of [...]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Coalition of the Artists of the Revolution announced on its official Facebook page that it supports presidential candidate Hamdeen Sabahi as the next president of Egypt, under the slogan “Moving towards a better future with Sabahi … we support you.” The Coalition said in a statement that it decided to support the long-time [...]
CAIRO: The Egyptian Publishers Association said this week that the ministry of interior confiscated some 19,000 “fake books” and referred the case to the prosecution. This came after three weeks of the Association`s announcement to begin preparing a black list of counterfeit book publishers, under a plan designed “to combat the sale of counterfeit books.” [...]
BANGKOK: The two sit hand-in hand on the beach, their small bikinis getting onlookers, both male and female, as the couple relaxes and soaks in the hot sun a few hours south of the Thai capital, Bangkok. Here, the two 20-year-old lesbians live in relative safety. Isabelle and Monica – they use Western names here [...]
POKHARA, Nepal: The employees at Seeing Hands Nepal can’t witness the towering snow-capped peaks of the Himalayas that mark the skyline in Pokhara, the city on the cusp of the Annapurna Himalaya range. Nor can they see the smaller mountains that encircle the country’s second largest lake, only a short walk from the stone pathway [...]
CAIRO: The United Nations has called on Tunisia to ensure that the right to education is being prioritized in the country in the post-revolution transition. On Wednesday, an independent UN expert urged the Tunisian government to ensure that human rights, especially the right to education, are kept at the heart of the historic reforms taking [...]
CAIRO: On the occasion of the launch of her photographic exhibition and book named ‘DUST’, Swedish photographer Xenia Niokolsaya will participate to a symposium on May 12th at Rawabet Theatre on Egypt’s abandoned architectural heritage, during which she will present her recently published book. Together with historians, architects, artists and theorists, the panelists will discuss [...]
Mumbai: An Indian court advised married women to emulate the virtuous and obedient mythological goddess Sita, while hearing a divorce petition where the husband had filed for divorce because his wife was not willing to relocate with him. In India’s mythological epic Ramayana written by Sage Valmiki, Goddess Sita, wife of Indian deity Ram, follows [...]
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