Finnish search for Arab art and culture
By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN I ARAB NEWS RIYADH: About 4,500 kilometers away from Saudi Arabia, a small country tucked away in an isolated Arctic corner of Europe with fewer than […]
Hafiz program: Women are major beneficiaries
By DIANA AL-JASSEM | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: With the implementation of the first phase of the Hafiz unemployment program on Dec. 31, 700,000 Saudis will start receiving their monthly allowance. Reports issued by the Ministry of Labor confirm that the list consists of 560,000 Saudi women against 140,000 Saudi men, […]
Iraq is neither sovereign nor stable
by Michael Jansen It is hardly surprising that the pullout of the last US combat troops in Iraq coincided with the collapse of the fragile “unity” deal between Shiite and Sunni politicians. The Shiite fundamentalist and Sunni/secular camps have been engaged in a bitter power struggle ever since the 2010 […]
Latin patriarch eyes ‘unified’ Easter in Christmas address
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Christians in the Holy Land are hoping to agree on joint date to celebrate Easter, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem said on Wednesday in his traditional Christmas address. “We intend to unify the date of Easter,” Fuad Twal, the top Roman Catholic cleric in the Holy Land, […]
Finding a new role for churches: Need for a new message
Reuters:John Lloyd ……….This “hunger to be more serious” is acute now, in Christmas week, when, in the countries of long Christian tradition, the broadcast air is replete with carols, sacred music and invocations to rejoice in a miracle birth. It is a hunger which also contains something of a languorous […]