Word: sunday
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...This song for a land in distress, with lyrics by the poet Abdel Rahim Mansour, comes from the 1982 film An Egyptian Story. It might have been the personal anthem of the movie's writer-director, Youssef Chahine, who died Sunday at 82, six weeks after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage. His passing ended a busy, exemplary career that spanned nearly six decades making movies, myths and trouble...
...Comic-Con, that pop-culture marathon run by 125,000 die-hards, ended Sunday evening in San Diego. TIME.com singles out some of the event's best performances, worst omissions and hardiest fans. Don't get your cape caught in the door...
...shut down the government for alleged Islamism is expected by next week, and a prosecutor recently alleged that a powerful cabal of nationalist hit men has plotted to bring the country's institutions to a fall. So when two fatal bombs ripped through a working-class Istanbul neighborhood on Sunday night, killing 17 and injuring another 150, the already palpable tension in Turkey went up another few notches...
...claimed responsibility for Sunday's explosions, which Istanbul's governor Muammer Guler called a terrorist attack. The two explosions were cruelly timed 10 minutes apart; many in the normally quiet residential area on the outskirts of the city became victims when they ran to the scene after hearing the first explosion. Guler suggested that the attack may have come from the Kurdish separatist group PKK, which has carried out scores of terrorist bombings in Turkey since 1984. But the group's actions rarely target civilians, and a news agency close to the PKK said it condemned Sunday night's bombings...
...come of this exhausting upheaval, and Turkey does have a way of bouncing back from the brink. But in the midst of a global economic crunch, as conflict brews between neighboring Iran and the West, it has squandered valuable time and credibility on an essentially internecine dispute. Sunday's bombings are at the very least a fatal reminder of how high the stakes...