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While MTV may have popularized the music video, in the Middle East it is chasing its clones. Competitor Rotana has four Beirut-based music channels, financed by Saudi billionaire Prince al-Waleed bin Talal. Melody, out of Cairo, is controlled by Egyptian telecoms magnate Naguib Sawiris. Mohammed Yanez, MTV talent and music director, says his channel will be different. Sure, there will be stars like Elissa, Nancy Ajram and Amr Diab, but Yanez wants a little less melodrama. "We are always weeping in Arabic music," he complains. He plans to mix it up with Arab hip-hop, a genre that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MTV's Arab Prizefight | 11/2/2007 | See Source »

Commodity speculators are exploiting geopolitical tensions to put a "fear factor premium" on oil prices, says Qatar's Energy and Oil Minister Abdulla Bin Hamad al-Attiya in an interview with TIME. The blame for high prices - a record $93.53 a barrel on Monday - should not fall on petroleum producers, he says. "How do you blame us?" asked Attiya, who also serves as deputy prime minister of Qatar, a small country of nearly one million people whose per capita income of $66,000 is the world's fifth-highest. "I am an oil producer and cannot tell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil Prices: Don't Blame OPEC | 10/30/2007 | See Source »

...week a success because it spurred conversation about Islamo-Fascism. But according to Rizvi, the debate concerning extremism within Islam has been going on for quite some time. “Within the Muslim community we’ve seen very strong statements made by prominent scholars against Osama bin Laden and his ilk. There is a sense of coming together and defining what the boundaries are. And that’s naturally taking place within Islamic society.” —Staff writer Charles J. Wells can be reached at wells2@fas.harvard.edu...

Author: By Charles J. Wells, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘Islamo Fascism’ Week Fails To Gain Traction | 10/26/2007 | See Source »

They want Musharraf dead. Osama bin Laden declared jihad against the leader in a video this September...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dashboard: Nov. 5, 2007 | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

...despite the overabundance of eye-rolling moments, the film still delivers plenty of honest and funny family scenes. The story may not be original, but it is timeless, and several surprising examples of wit and tenderness may prove more enduring than some of its sale-bin predecessors. Though not the sweep-you-off-your feet tale Binoche is searching for, “Dan in Real Life” is, as Carell states at the very beginning...

Author: By Megan E. O'keefe, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Dan in Real Life | 10/25/2007 | See Source »

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