North America
Calgary Approves Largest Taxi Fleet Expansion in Decades
Calgary City Council has unanimously approved the largest increase to the city’s fleet since it was capped in the 1980s, agreeing upon adding one hundred ……Read More
Month: September 2014
North America
Royal Alexandra Hospital Reopens Emergency Department after Ebola Scare
A senior medical officer of health at The Royal Alexandra Hospital, Gerry Predy, has confirmed that its emergency department is all set to reopen later ……Read More
Europe
Balls announces Labour plans of extending child benefit cap to balance books
Labour’s shadow chancellor Ed Balls will announce on Monday plans of his party over “not to flinch from the tough decisions” required to balance Britain’s public finances, telling ……Read More
Books
Sheikh Zayed Book Awards Announces Longlist in ‘Young Author’ Category
he longlists for the 2015 Sheikh Zayed Book Awards (SZBA) were announced yesterday in the Emerging Author and Children’s Book categories: The Emerging Author (or “young author”) longlist includes ……Read More
Books
American University in Beirut Launches Sawwaf Comics Initiative; Egyptian Comix Week Starts Tomorrow
Comics — and graphic novels — continue to blossom in Arabic-writing hotspots, including Algiers, Beirut, and Cairo: Starting tomorrow, the first edition of Between Cadres (BECA) — Egypt ……Read More
Books
Review: ‘House of the Wolf’ a Multigenerational Novel with Women’s Lives at the Center
Ezzat al-Kamhawi’s House of the Wolf (trans. Nancy Roberts), winner of the 2012 Naguib Mahfouz Medal, is a multi-generational epic in the tradition of Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy. But ……Read More