If sales figures and market assessments of the Egyptian book publishing industry are to be believed, then right now is pretty much the worst time for a young Egyptian author to try and break into the market, let alone for a group of young women to (...)
The cancellation of Mozart's Idomeneo in Berlin has provoked fierce criticism across Germany. Should art censor itself for fear of offending religion? Katharina Goetze reads the German press
It was a production not unlike many presented every (...)
In an effort to defuse the controversy over his speech two weeks ago, on Monday Pope Benedict XVI met Muslim ambassadors in his summer residence near Rome. But while the Islamic world is still reeling from insult, the conservative German media used (...)
