JON B ALTERMAN | NYT NEWS SERVICE The Egyptian revolution did not happen last winter. It is happening now. And it is not taking place in Tahrir Square, but in towns and villages throughout the country.
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NICHOLAS D KRISTOF Here's a paradox: We're finding authentic leadership these days not from our nominal leaders in Washington but from unelected (and mostly unelectable) figures whom we like to deride as self-indulgent narcissists...
DOHA THE Museum of Islamic Art Park (MIA Park), a new destination in Doha where cultural, educational and recreational activities will be organised to attract children, families and art enthusiasts...
DOHA AAMAL Company owned City Centre has signed a $14 million two-year deal with Johnson Controls' to provide total building operation and maintenance services...
DOHA TOP seed Rafael Nadal and third seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga went through tough times before clinching their first round victories of the season-opening Qatar ExxonMobil Open Tennis Tournament on Tuesday...
I LIVE on another planet, fortunately, and we do things differently there says Tilda Swinton over tea and a slight case of the sniffles at the Bowery Hotel in the East Village...
DOHA QATAR Airways received top accolades at the Business Traveller USA magazine awards ceremony in Los Angeles recently. The magazine's readers voted the five-star carrier Best Airline for International Travel for the third consecutive year at its 23rd annual Best in Business Awards. The airline was also awarded Best Business Class to the Middle East....
DOHA BARWA Real Estate recently conducted workshops to review and discuss its fiveyear business plan 2012- 2016 and the implications for its 2012 budget. The workshops were attended by the senior management of Barwa, its subsidiaries, associates and investments. The sessions were chaired by Abdulla Abdulaziz al Subaie, Barwa Group CEO. Barwa recently announced its new corporate strategy and growth plans that are built on disciplined and sustainable growth. ...
DOHA THE Doha Trade Fair 2012 (DTF) has received a rousing reception from the city residents. The 10-day fair, which opened at the Doha Exhibitions Center on New Year day, has already attracted a large number of people. Around 570 exhibitors from 29 countries are taking part in the fair. A wide range of products — including perfume, cosmetics, fabrics, textiles, food, electronic gadgets and toys — are being exhibited at the shopping carnival. ...
FRENCH oil group Total is sloughing $2.3 billion into the development of US shale gas reserves in Ohio in the latest example of global energy companies piling into new energy sources made economic by the high price of crude. In a deal with Chesapeake Energy, which the US group announced in November without identifying its partners, Total will take a 25 percent stake in a joint venture covering the Utica Shale area of eastern Ohio...
FRANKFURT BETTER-than-expected German jobless data on Tuesday showed Europe's biggest economy appears to be holding up to the debt crisis but it may not escape a global downturn altogether, analysts said. Unemployment data for both December and 2011 as a whole suggested the German labour market is managing to shrug off the debilitating eurozone debt crisis, with unemployment dropping to its lowest level in more than 20 years...
ROME FOOD prices may ease in 2012 due to a slowing global economy, though no drastic drop from high levels is expected, the new directorgeneral of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Tuesday. Jose Graziano da Silva, the Brazilian who replaced Senegal's Jacques Diouf at the helm of the FAO at the start of 2012, said volatility in food markets was likely to continue and that more people would be a risk of hunger due to economic instability...
DOHA PARIS Saint-Germain (PSG) coach Carlo Ancelotti has promised to transform the Paris-based Qatari club into a big force in European football by attracting new players during the current transfer window. Ancelotti told reporters on Monday that PSG would go ahead with its plan to make it big in the European football regardless of British star David Beckham. He was reacting to the announcement made by PSG President Nasser al Khelaifi that negotiations with Beckham had collapsed...
SYDNEY AUSTRALIA were on top after a remarkable start in the second Test against India on Tuesday, recovering from a shaky opening to their innings on a day that saw 13 wickets tumble. India were skittled for 191 off 59.3 overs and the hosts lost three early wickets before recovering to 116 for three at the close, to trail by just 75. At stumps, skipper Michael Clarke (47) and former captain Ricky Ponting (44) had restored the Australian innings with an unbroken 79-run stand.....
CHELSEA manager Andre Villas-Boas claimed his team are back in the Premier League title race following their lastgasp victory over Wolves. Frank Lampard's dramatic 89th-minute goal eased the pressure on Villas-Boas as Chelsea ended a four-game winless streak at Molineux. Although still eight points off top spot having played a match more than the two Manchester clubs, Villas-Boas backtracked on his previous suggestion his team are out of the title reckoning following a weekend of shocks at the summit...
TRADITIONAL print dictionaries have long enlisted lexicographers to scrutinize new words as they pop up, weighing their merits and eventually accepting some of them. Not Wordnik, the vast online dictionary. No modern-day Samuel Johnson or Noah Webster ponders each prospective entry there. Instead, automatic programs search the Internet, combing the texts of news feeds, archived broadcasts, the blogosphere, Twitter posts and dozens of other sources for the raw material of Wordnik citations...
Just before dusk they begin to arrive, first the motor scooters, then the bigger bikes rolling up in a cloud of leather and noise. For an hour or two each Friday, on a wide boulevard beside the Tigris River, the complexities of Baghdad life give way to a few universal questions: Can I pop a wheelie when people are watching? Can I sneak out of the house without my family noticing? And wouldn't it be cool if there were girls here? On a recent Friday, Ali Hamra, 28, sat on his motorcycle...
WRITING a song for a Winnie the Pooh movie is a daunting task, because it requires a songwriter to follow in the footsteps of Richard and Robert Sherman, who penned the well-known Pooh theme song and also wrote Chim Chim Cher-ee, It's a Small World and I Wan'na Be Like You, among many others. "The tradition of music in Disney animated films is pretty spectacular. But I tried not to think about it, because I might be overwhelmed if I did...
TOKYO JAPANESE Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda wants to call a snap general election if parliament does not approve bills needed for a sales tax increase, the Sankei newspaper reported on Tuesday.
BEIJING HUNDREDS of Muslims in a northwestern China village trying to prevent the demolition of their mosque clashed with police, causing several deaths, Hong Kong media and residents said on Tuesday...
DOHA QATAR Airways received top accolades at the Business Traveller USA magazine awards ceremony in Los Angeles recently. The magazine's readers voted the five-star carrier Best Airline for International Travel for the third consecutive year at its 23rd annual Best in Business Awards. The airline was also awarded Best Business Class to the Middle East....
DOHA BARWA Real Estate recently conducted workshops to review and discuss its fiveyear business plan 2012- 2016 and the implications for its 2012 budget. The workshops were attended by the senior management of Barwa, its subsidiaries, associates and investments. The sessions were chaired by Abdulla Abdulaziz al Subaie, Barwa Group CEO. Barwa recently announced its new corporate strategy and growth plans that are built on disciplined and sustainable growth. ...
DOHA THE Doha Trade Fair 2012 (DTF) has received a rousing reception from the city residents. The 10-day fair, which opened at the Doha Exhibitions Center on New Year day, has already attracted a large number of people. Around 570 exhibitors from 29 countries are taking part in the fair. A wide range of products — including perfume, cosmetics, fabrics, textiles, food, electronic gadgets and toys — are being exhibited at the shopping carnival. ... 
FRENCH oil group Total is sloughing $2.3 billion into the development of US shale gas reserves in Ohio in the latest example of global energy companies piling into new energy sources made economic by the high price of crude. In a deal with Chesapeake Energy, which the US group announced in November without identifying its partners, Total will take a 25 percent stake in a joint venture covering the Utica Shale area of eastern Ohio...
FRANKFURT BETTER-than-expected German jobless data on Tuesday showed Europe's biggest economy appears to be holding up to the debt crisis but it may not escape a global downturn altogether, analysts said. Unemployment data for both December and 2011 as a whole suggested the German labour market is managing to shrug off the debilitating eurozone debt crisis, with unemployment dropping to its lowest level in more than 20 years... 
ROME FOOD prices may ease in 2012 due to a slowing global economy, though no drastic drop from high levels is expected, the new directorgeneral of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation said on Tuesday. Jose Graziano da Silva, the Brazilian who replaced Senegal's Jacques Diouf at the helm of the FAO at the start of 2012, said volatility in food markets was likely to continue and that more people would be a risk of hunger due to economic instability...
DOHA PARIS Saint-Germain (PSG) coach Carlo Ancelotti has promised to transform the Paris-based Qatari club into a big force in European football by attracting new players during the current transfer window. Ancelotti told reporters on Monday that PSG would go ahead with its plan to make it big in the European football regardless of British star David Beckham. He was reacting to the announcement made by PSG President Nasser al Khelaifi that negotiations with Beckham had collapsed...
SYDNEY AUSTRALIA were on top after a remarkable start in the second Test against India on Tuesday, recovering from a shaky opening to their innings on a day that saw 13 wickets tumble. India were skittled for 191 off 59.3 overs and the hosts lost three early wickets before recovering to 116 for three at the close, to trail by just 75. At stumps, skipper Michael Clarke (47) and former captain Ricky Ponting (44) had restored the Australian innings with an unbroken 79-run stand..... 
CHELSEA manager Andre Villas-Boas claimed his team are back in the Premier League title race following their lastgasp victory over Wolves. Frank Lampard's dramatic 89th-minute goal eased the pressure on Villas-Boas as Chelsea ended a four-game winless streak at Molineux. Although still eight points off top spot having played a match more than the two Manchester clubs, Villas-Boas backtracked on his previous suggestion his team are out of the title reckoning following a weekend of shocks at the summit...
TRADITIONAL print dictionaries have long enlisted lexicographers to scrutinize new words as they pop up, weighing their merits and eventually accepting some of them. Not Wordnik, the vast online dictionary. No modern-day Samuel Johnson or Noah Webster ponders each prospective entry there. Instead, automatic programs search the Internet, combing the texts of news feeds, archived broadcasts, the blogosphere, Twitter posts and dozens of other sources for the raw material of Wordnik citations... 
Just before dusk they begin to arrive, first the motor scooters, then the bigger bikes rolling up in a cloud of leather and noise. For an hour or two each Friday, on a wide boulevard beside the Tigris River, the complexities of Baghdad life give way to a few universal questions: Can I pop a wheelie when people are watching? Can I sneak out of the house without my family noticing? And wouldn't it be cool if there were girls here? On a recent Friday, Ali Hamra, 28, sat on his motorcycle... 
WRITING a song for a Winnie the Pooh movie is a daunting task, because it requires a songwriter to follow in the footsteps of Richard and Robert Sherman, who penned the well-known Pooh theme song and also wrote Chim Chim Cher-ee, It's a Small World and I Wan'na Be Like You, among many others. "The tradition of music in Disney animated films is pretty spectacular. But I tried not to think about it, because I might be overwhelmed if I did...
