He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
By Daoud Kuttab – The religious men and women patiently clutching their water jugs on July 10, waiting in line at the Israeli border crossing looked like the average Palestinian. They had been to Mecca for Umra, the lesser pilgrimage to the Muslim holy places. What was different in this […]
By Oraib Al-Rantawi, The Daily Star, Lebanon On May 10, at their 13th consultative summit, Gulf Cooperation Council leaders accepted Jordan’s application for membership, noting that it had originally been tendered 15 years ago. The GCC leaders also issued an invitation to Morocco to join their “super-rich Arab club” even […]
Frankfurt, Germany (CNN) — The Japanese women’s soccer team won the World Cup after defeating the United States on penalty kicks Sunday night, rallying from a pair of one-goal deficits to capture its first-ever world title. Japan had come into the tournament as sentimental favorites, helping rally a nation that […]
Source/Credit: CNN and Associated Press London (CNN) — Former News of the World editor Rebekah Brooks was arrested Sunday in connection with British police investigations into phone hacking and police bribery, her spokesman told CNN. She is being quizzed by police in London after having come in by appointment, a Metropolitan Police spokesman said. […]
Rfi France. The world’s best-known cycling event, the Tour de France, got underway on Saturday 2 July as 20 teams with nine riders each set off from Passage de Gois in the eastern Vendée region. The 98th Tour has 21 stages covering a total distance of 3,430.5 kilometres and will […]
Guardian.co.uk French media continues to report widely on the attack on “Liberation” correspondent Christophe Boltanksi, who was beaten and stabbed by four unknown assailants late November 11 in Tunis, after having extensively reported on human rights abuses on the eve of the GOT-hosted WSIS. Several French newspapers, led by “Liberation,” […]
Pravda Russia: Another vessel with people on board disappeared in Lake Baikal. Now a search and rescue team is looking for a pleasure boat “Yamaha” that went into the lake with four men on board on 16 June and still has not returned. Everyone says that the men were experienced […]
Shell has unveiled plans to build the world’s first floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) platform. The 600,000-tonne behemoth – the world’s biggest “ship” – will be sited off the coast of Australia. But how will it work? Deep beneath the world’s oceans are huge reservoirs of natural gas. Some are […]
The UN has made its first aid delivery to drought victims in areas of Somalia controlled by al-Qaeda-linked militants since they lifted an aid ban. UN children organisation’s Rozanne Chorlton said al-Shabab had given UN workers unhindered access and hoped this would encourage other agencies. It comes as the UK […]
AMMAN (JT) – The Royal committee entrusted with reviewing the Constitution has wrapped up its work and will refer recommendations to His Majesty King Abdullah before the end of July. Ahmad Lozi, chairman of the committee, was quoted by the Jordan News Agency, Petra, as saying Saturday that the panel […]
Labour leader urges for new media ownership rules saying News Corporation chief has too much power in the UK Ed Miliband has demanded the breakup of Rupert Murdoch‘s UK media empire in a dramatic intervention in the row over phone hacking. In an exclusive interview with the Observer, the Labour […]
LONDON PRESS DESK AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITY, 17 July 2011 GERMANY TOUR 2011 (The following is a brief report of some of the meetings held by Hazur-Aqdas during his recent tour of Germany) On the 28th June 2011, Hazur-Aqdas met with the Lord Mayor of Berlin, Mr Klaus Wowereit. The meeting […]
http://www.alloexpat.com/mauritius_expat_forum/human-trafficking-mauritius-a-source-country-news-on-su-t7931.html Human trafficking : Mauritius a source country Clinton said that “the ease of transportation and the global communications that can reach deep into villages with promises and pictures of what a better life might be, we now see that more human beings are exploited than before. There […]
by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch More than ten million people are caught up in the Horn of Africa crisis sparked by the worst drought in decades and compounded by intense fighting in Somalia. In refugee camps in Dadaab in Kenya – where nearly 400,000 people are crammed together with more arriving […]
By SHEYMA BUALI, LIFE.SYLLE@ARABNEWS.COM London’s three-week long Shubbak festival of contemporary Arab culture opened on Monday on a strong note from Tamer Abou Ghazaleh, Zeid Hamdan and Maryam Saleh, performing together for the first time in Europe. The first week of Shubbak sped by with music, history, film and literature […]
By MAHA AKEEL, LIFE.STYLE@ARABNEWS.COM This book answers the question: What has the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), recently renamed as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, done in the past 40 years of its existence? It courageously addresses some existential questions of its relevance and place in today’s complicated, interconnected […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: Incest is becoming a noticeable problem in Saudi society. There are various reasons why male relatives, especially guardians, sexually abuse the girls in their families. Experts feel that the growing incidence of this scourge is largely due to the victims’ families not […]
I am just wondering whether the readers are tired to read every day similar News of unrest in Syria, for instance… but the struggle continues… Syrians call for civil disobedience By REUTERS ISTANBUL: Syrians should wage a campaign of civil disobedience to try to force President Bashar Assad from power, […]
By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS ISTANBUL: In what can rightly be described as a seminal step in relations between the Muslim world and the Western world, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the leading nations of the Western world led by the United States and the European Union agreed Saturday to […]