Source: Asiatimes on Line By Pepe Escobar Bets are off on which is the great story of 2011. Is it the Arab Spring(s)? Is it the Arab counter-revolution, unleashed by the House of Saud? Is it the “birth pangs” of the Greater Middle East remixed as serial regime changes? Is […]
Source: Asiatimes on line. The United States has the doctrine, the means and the motivation to make mischief for China in 2012. In an unusually toxic election year, expect the US to feed the “return to Asia” narrative with the specter of China as an arrogant and destabilizing regional threat. […]
Source: NY Times. A writer for a Times blog about philosophy argues that being an atheist does not mean “anything goes” — in fact, quite the opposite. What do you think? Can morality be independent of God? Can people who don’t believe in God still be as “good” as those […]
Source: NY Times CAIRO — Several thousand women demanding the end of military rule marched through downtown Cairo on Tuesday evening in an extraordinary expression of anger over images of soldiers beating, stripping and kicking female demonstrators in Tahrir Square. Complete Story.
By ROGER HARRISON, ROGER.HARRISON@ARABNEWS.COM In their preparation for the London 2012 Olympic Games, the Saudi Equestrian team have one more hurdle to jump to be able to qualify. The Pan […]
By ANGIE TEO | REUTERS Published: Dec 19, 2011 16:53 Updated: Dec 19, 2011 17:07 KUALA LUMPUR: A Malaysian Muslim woman was crowned the best preacher in a televised Islamic […]
By GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN I ARAB NEWS Published: Dec 21, 2011 02:16 Updated: Dec 21, 2011 02:19 RIYADH: The six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) concluded its two-day summit in Riyadh […]
WASHINGTON: Eating less may keep the mind young, according Italian scientists who reported Monday they have discovered the molecular process by which a strict diet may save the brain from the ravages of age. The research, published in the US journal the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is […]
Express News: The Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund seems to be losing momentum. The $250 million programme was recently downgraded by the World Bank in a report issued by the Washington-based lender’s supervisory mission. The anti-poverty program was downgraded to ‘moderately satisfactory’, the lowest grade it has received in 12 years. […]
AFP: GENEVA: At least 106 journalists were killed in 2011, among them 12 in Mexico and 11 in Pakistan, making them the most dangerous countries to work in, a campaign group said on Monday. Twenty journalists who reported on the Arab spring uprisings were killed this year and more than […]
Source / Courtesy: Muslim Sunrise 2011 Winter Volume Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Christopher Hitchens has been called one of the four horsemen of neo-Atheism. […]
Russia has stepped up demands for Nato to account for civilian deaths from the air strike campaign which led to the downfall of Libyan strongman Muammer Gaddafi. The campaign by […]
David Cameron arrived in Kandahar today to visit troops based in Afghanistan. The Prime Minister was supposed to visit Camp Bastion in Helmand Province, but had to divert south due […]
Chinese President Hu Jintao on Tuesday held talks with his Polish counterpart Bronislaw Komorowski, and both agreed to advance bilateral relations to a level of strategic partnership. President Hu hailed the development of Sino-Polish relations since the two states established diplomatic ties in 1949, and especially after their friendly cooperative […]
Thousands of people have protested in southern China against plans to build a new coal-fired power plant. Protesters say two students died in the unrest in the town of Haimen in Guangdong province. Read More…
Source / Courtesy: Harvard Business Review Blog by Daniel Gulati | Comments (438) When Facebook was founded in 2004, it began with a seemingly innocuous mission: to connect friends. Some seven years and 800 million users later, the social network has taken over most aspects of our personal and professional lives, and […]
Here let me share with you a bad deed of Goodword Books in their republication of a book by an Italian Orientalist, Prof. Laura Veccia Vaglieri in 2004. The book an interpretation […]
Courtesy: CNN Two Muslim religious leaders sue airlines for discrimination – CNN.com By Jim Barnett, CNN 2011-12-19T23:48:40Z CNN.com Two Islamic religious leaders from Tennessee claim a Delta pilot prevented them from flying after they were cleared to board. Washington (CNN) — Two Islamic religious leaders from Tennessee filed a […]
Asia Times Online: Neeta Lal: Close on the heels of India’s liberal intellectual tradition receiving a jolt with the removal of an essay – ”Three Hundred Ramayanas: Five Examples and Three Thoughts on Translations” – by the late scholar A K Ramanujan from Delhi University’s BA history (honors) syllabus, comes […]
Source: NY Times. As an American visitor in the power precincts of Pakistan, from the gated enclaves of Islamabad to the manicured lawns of the military garrison in Peshawar, from the luxury fortress of the Serena Hotel to the exclusive apartments of the parliamentary housing blocks, you can expect three […]