Epigraph: Surely, men who submit themselves to God and women who submit themselves to Him, and believing men and believing women, and obedient men and obedient women and truthful men […]
The Local news@thelocal.ch 3 March 2017 burkinipayernecarnival File photo: Mohd Rasfan/AFP A group of friends participating in this weekend’s Brandons de Payerne carnival intend to wear burkinis and parade alongside […]
February 28, 2017 TEHRAN – The Iranian studio Rose has recently released an Android version of a game named Moda Dress Up, which promotes women’s Islamic fashion, the Video Game Magazine, an online Persian journal, announced on Sunday. The target audience of the game is girls and it is similar […]
EKREM BUĞRA EKINCI@EkremBEkinci Shahzade Abdülmecid Efendi is seen on a horse as he goes to Friday prayer. (1923) The caliphate was one of the oldest Islamic institutions in the history. The Ottoman caliphate was the last Sunni caliphate of the late medieval and early modern era that lasted 13 centuries […]
Source: DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Her interest in Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi, a Persian Sufi mystic who settled in Turkey, brings international pop star Madonna to the mystic’s adopted home, a Turkish […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL AA Photo The mayor of the northern French port city of Calais has taken measures to stop people from giving food to refugees as authorities struggle to […]
REUTERS AFP Photo The European Parliament called on the EU executive on Thursday to force Americans to apply for visas before visiting Europe this summer, stepping up pressure to resolve a long-running transatlantic dispute on the issue. The European Commission stressed it was pursuing a diplomatic resolution to the row, […]
Source: Newsweek By Qasim Rashid I’m not a cinephile. But I was happy for my friend Mahershala as he won the Oscar for best supporting actor. In doing so, he […]
Source: New Age Islam By Bina Shah February 20, 2017 I’ve been reading about Australian youth activist Yassmin Abdel-Magied (we appeared on an Australian show once together) and her words […]
Reuters International MAR 2, 2017 – Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov addresses the United Nations General Assembly in the Manhattan borough of New York, U.S., September 22, 2016. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz(reuters_tickers) By Kole Casule SKOPJE (Reuters) – The EU on Thursday asked Macedonia’s president to reverse a move to block a […]
By Pilita Clark and Environment Correspondent MAR 2, 2017 A Ghanaian cattle herder leads his cattle across the polluted Korle Gono beach, covered in plastic bottles and other rubbish washed ashore in June 2016 (Keystone) More used to battling it out over mineral water and baby milk, Swiss group Nestlé […]
Mar 02,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power The great immigration debate has to become the great rethinking and restructuring debate. Charlie Brown is right when he says “no problem is too big and complicated that it can’t be run away from”. In both the US and the EU, the focus […]
By AFP – Mar 02,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel shake hands following a news conference at El Thadiya presidential […]
Source: Independent Balfour initiated a policy of British support for Israel which continues to this very day, to the detriment of the occupied Palestinians of the West Bank and the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer; Reporter — Washington, D.C. BOSTON — In humans’ mysterious journey to become intelligent, socializing creatures like no other in the animal world, one innovation […]