When the Brexit fever was at its height, and the words ‘febrile’ and ‘torrid’ seemed to be on every pundit’s lips, along with ‘free movement,’ ‘cake and eat it’ and the godawful ‘Brexit’ itself, I…

The mysteries of the ancient Egyptians are huge, but the key to understanding the life, culture and belief systems of the ancient civilization under its strong rulers is in front of us—in its…

The Economists’ Hour: False Prophets, Free Markets, and the Fracture of Society.Binyamin Appelbaum. Little, Brown, 2019. 448pp. Transaction Man: The Rise of the Deal and the Decline of the American…

Almost 30 years on since Sonic made his debut in the video game world, the blue hedgehog has finally made his first appearance on the big screen. After months of online criticism, delays and…

First held in 2010, the Parallax Art Fair is an annual art exhibit that prides itself on being run by artists rather than a corporation. Since then, the fair has grown to become one of the most…

Egypt was the first in the Arab world and Africa to establish an animation production. In 1934, the pioneering brothers Solomon, David and Frankel Herschel (recent immigrants from Soviet Belarus) who…

* The museum will display no less than 50 thousand antiquities by the time of its grand opening. * The museum will feature a seven-thousand-meter long section which, for the first time in history,…

I’ve always had a lot of time for sceptics. In some cases, you had to have a lot of time. There was the one who landed up in a ditch and refused to come out till someone could prove he was actually…

What do Kim Kardashian-West, Kylie Jenner, Lady Gaga, Salma Hayek, Victoria’s Secret models and Brad Pitt all have in common? Well, they all get their beauty procedures done by none other than Dr…

Following two stabbing attacks in London in just over two months carried out by convicts who had been let out of jail early, the question is being raised again of how to make prison more effective in…