A top member of Libya’s liberal coalition, which claims to have swept 70 percent of seats reserved for parties in the next congress, on Wednesday rejected political Islam and called for a civil state. “The National Forces Alliance is against the injection of religion into political battles,” Faisal Krekshi, secretary […]
PARIS (AFP) ― The mausolea of Timbuktu, known as the “city of 333 saints,” are shrines in the Sufi brand of Islam dominant in Mali but a heresy to the […]
The brief meeting of parliament in Cairo Tuesday, in defiance of the Supreme Constitutional Court, reveals that the newly elected President Mohammad Mursi and the Muslim Brotherhood are becoming selective […]
July 11, 2012 12:36 AM By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star On Monday, I found myself reading about the results of the first post-Gadhafi Libyan parliamentary election. This I did in between visits to the great Piazza del Campo and its majestic Town Hall in Siena, Italy, where I […]
Source: NY Times: CAIRO — In a raw contest between Egypt’s competing centers of power, legislators on Tuesday defied the country’s highest court and its most senior generals by holding a brief session of the dissolved Parliament, heeding an order by President Mohamed Morsiin the face of opposition from judges […]
CAIRO: Egypt’s new President Mohammad Mursi annulled the Supreme Court’s dissolution of the Islamist-dominated parliament Sunday, the official media said, setting the stage for a possible confrontation with the military. “President Mursi has issued a presidential decree annulling the decision taken on June 15, 2012, to dissolve the people’s assembly, […]
Samantha Lewthwaite, the British terror suspect on the run from police in East Africa, is in Somalia recruiting and training all-women attack squads, The Daily Telegraph has learnt. Lewthwaite, the […]
Arab News CAIRO: President Muhammad Mursi will visit Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, his first foreign visit as Egypt’s head of state, Saudi Ambassador Ahmed Qattan said on Saturday. Qattan made […]
Is the election of Mohamed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, as president of Egypt the beginning of the end of the Camp David peace treaty between Israel and Egypt? It doesn’t have to be. In fact, it could actually be the beginning of a real peace between the Israeli and […]
Tripoli: Libya’s top politicians have hatched a deal by which the Muslim Brotherhood will lead the government after the country’s first free elections on Saturday in almost five decades. According to The Telegraph, negotiations between the Muslim Brotherhood and a secular-based political movement led by former interim prime minister Mahmoud […]
By: Sultan Al-Qassemi First published on Gulfnews.com on 20th of May 2012 The post-Arab Spring political scene has exposed the frailty of the ‘marriage of convenience’ between free-thinkers and conservatives. […]
Source: BBC Liberia’s ex-President Charles Taylor has been sentenced to 50 years in jail by a UN-backed war crimes court. Last month Taylor was found guilty of aiding and abetting […]
CAIRO: Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood presidential candidate Mohammed Mursi sought on Tuesday to reassure women and Coptic Christians, who fear a conservative Islamist could threaten their freedoms. “Our Christian brothers, let’s […]
by Rand Dalgamouni | May 29,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Countries in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) should build peaceful ties with each other to come up with […]
REUTERS ARABBEWS CAIRO: The Muslim Brotherhood and a military man close to ousted leader Hosni Mubarak courted defeated first-round candidates in Egypt’s presidential election yesterday, each trying to claim the […]
Commission lists Egypt among countries with religious freedom problems Friday, May 25, 2012 By Catholic News S… By Maria-Pia Negro Catholic News Service “Egypt was one of 16 countries that the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom singled out for particular concern in its 2012 annual report, released in March. […]
Abu Al Fotouh to back brotherhood against Mubarak-era premier By Ramadan Al Sherbini, Correspondent GULF NEWS Cairo: The streets in the Egyptian capital appeared almost deserted yesterday as most of […]
Raphael Tenthani Independent Foreign Service, PRETORIA NEWS The prosecutor-elect of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has dispelled “perceptions” that the Hague-based court is there to punish only Africans. “A lot of it is only perception,” Fatou Bensouda said yesterday at an Open Society conference being held in Cape Town. “The […]
Source: EGYPT INDEPENDENT Results from polling stations across Egypt’s 27 governorates began to roll in late Thursday night and early Friday morning following the country’s most competitive presidential poll in history. Voting confirmed analysts’ suspicions that only five of the thirteen candidates face the possibility of advancing into a run-off. […]
Source: OnIslam.net An Egyptian physics student has successfully created a new propulsion device that could accelerate space probes and artificial satellites through quantum physics and chemical reactions instead of the current radioactive-based jets and ordinary rocket engines. Aisha Mustafa, who has entered the active research area of spacecraft propulsion by […]