BBC Debate: Do we misrepresent Islam?
Suggested Reading Defensive War in the Holy Quran in 600 Words Two Hundred Verses about Compassionate Living in the Quran ‘Islamic Law’: A Myopic Reading of the Quran The Purpose And Context […]
Saudi Arabia to Lift Ban on Movie Theaters After 35 Years
Source: Time By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI AND AYA BATRAWY/ AP 10:30 AM EST (RIYADH) — Saudi Arabia announced on Monday it will allow movie theaters to open in the conservative kingdom next […]
Huntington’s breakthrough may stop disease
Source: BBC News By James Gallagher Health and science correspondent, BBC News Image copyrightJAMES GALLAGHERImage captionPeter has Huntington’s disease and his siblings Sandy and Frank also have the gene The […]
New York Port Authority attack: Man held after Manhattan blast
Source: BBC News A man is being held after an attempted terror attack at New York City’s main bus terminal, officials say. “Terrorists won’t win,” Mayor Bill de Blasio said […]
Wildfires Are The ‘New Reality’ For California, Gov. Brown Warns
Source: Huffington Post By Nina Golgowski California Gov. Jerry Brown (D) toured some of the destruction left by unrelenting wildfires across his state on Saturday and warned that climate change is creating […]
Inside The Voucher Schools That Teach L. Ron Hubbard, But Say They’re Not Scientologist
Source: Huffington Post By Rebecca Klein CLEARWATER, Fla. ― It was a weekday afternoon here in early December, and a gaggle of kids outside of Clearwater Academy International were playing with […]
Harassment survey: ‘I’m a waitress but I feel like a sex worker’
Source: BBC News Nilufer Guler is a waitress, but says she feels more like a sex worker at times. On the second day in a new job, a table of […]
Google’s ‘superhuman’ DeepMind AI claims chess crown
Source: BBC News Google says its AlphaGo Zero artificial intelligence program has triumphed at chess against world-leading specialist software within hours of teaching itself the game from scratch. The firm’s […]
Saudi Arabia To Allow Movie Theaters To Open For First Time In 35 Years
Source: Reuters and Huffington Post Cinemas were banned in the early 1980s under pressure from Islamists as Saudi society turned towards a restrictive form of the religion. DUBAI, Dec 11 […]
Islam in the modern age
Daily Times: His Highness Aga Khan-IV, the hereditary imam of the Ismaili Aga Khani community, is on a visit to Pakistan. To my mind he represents the true spirit of Islam: progress, humanity, education, and economic progress as ethical imperatives and dictates of Islamic doctrine. As a religious leader can […]
Chitral welcomes Aga Khan IV
December 10, 2017 By:Samaa Web Desk Officers receive Prince Karim at Chitral airport. PHOTO: DC CHITRAL’S TWITTER ACCOUNT CHITRAL: Prince Karim Aga Khan, the spiritual leader and 49th Imam of the […]
In sign of gently warming ties, Bahraini delegation visits Israel
Members of the ‘This is Bahrain’ group say they were sent by King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa ‘with a message of peace’ By TOI staff 10 December 2017, Members […]
Nobel Peace Prize winners warn the world is ‘one tantrum away’ from nuclear crisis
Businessinsider.com: The International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, which won this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, said on Sunday that the the world is “one tiny tantrum away” from a nuclear crisis. The group also said a country’s “moment of panic” could lead to the “destruction of cities and the deaths of […]
Looking back: Oct. 17, 1973: Angry Arabs Turn Off Oil Spigot
1973: The Arab oil-producing states impose an embargo against nations supporting Israel in the Fourth Arab-Israeli War, also known as the October War, Ramadan War or Yom Kippur War. […]
Arab World Fumes at Trump Over Jerusalem, but They Still Need U.S.
Arab countries were quick to launch a war of words on the American president’s Jerusalem declaration, but there’s very little room for them to maneuver diplomatically Zvi Bar’el Dec 10, […]
Amman to host extraordinary Arab summit over Jerusalem
Ministers to assess progress in pro-Jerusalem push in a month By JT – Dec 10,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Ayman Safadi AMMAN — Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi announced on Saturday that Jordan would host an “extraordinary” Arab summit as the chair of the current Arab summit session. He did […]
The Arab world has spoken
Dec 10,2017 – Jordan Times Editorial The Arab League Council’s emergency meeting in Cairo at the level of foreign ministers concluded its deliberations on Jerusalem late Saturday evening with the adoption […]
Donald Trump has proven how little he understands the Middle East with his Jerusalem decision
In the rush to fulfil a campaign promise, the US president has chosen to ignore the complexities of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict Donald Macintyre Jerusalem @indyvoices READ MORE HERE: http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/trump-jerusalem-israel-palestine-presidents-does-not-understand-middle-east-proven-a8096056.html