Kushner discusses Mideast peace with Saudi rulers
By AFP – Feb 28,2019 – JORDAN TIMES US President Donald Trump, flanked by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, meets with Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed Bin Salman at the Ritz Carlton […]
What the Hajj Pilgrimage Is Like, According to a Muslim American
Abu Zafar Yesterday 1:00pm Gizmodo Media Group is teaming up with Smartypants Pictures to premiere the second season of The Secret Life of Muslims—a video series with a view on modern Islam you’re not getting on cable news. Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. All Muslims are […]
Award-Winning Film on Controversial Pakistani Physicist to Screen March 7
March 01, 2019 Photo provided by Anand Kamalakar FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Anand Kamalakar, a Brooklyn-based documentary editor, will present his film Salam at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 7, in the Graduate Education […]
Spain logs hundreds of shipwrecks that tell story of maritime past
Weather rather than pirates caused majority of sinkings, says culture ministry team Sam Jones in Madrid @swajones Fri 1 Mar 2019 Columbus’s ship the Santa María runs aground off […]
‘Sometimes you have to walk’: Trump leaves Hanoi with no deal
Source: CNN Hanoi, Vietnam (CNN)President Donald Trump’s Hanoi summit with Kim Jong Un, meant to demonstrate his diplomatic gamble with North Korea is working, instead ended with no joint agreement after Kim insisted all US sanctions be lifted on his country. That was a bridge too far for the US […]
Cross Clash Could Change Rules For Separation Of Church And State
Source: NPR BY NINA TOTENBERG A giant concrete cross standing in the middle of a busy median strip is the latest symbol of a constitutional fight that has raged for […]
American families of missing Uighurs speak out at DC event
Source: Associated Press By CHRISTINA LARSON WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearly two years after the Chinese government began to detain members of Muslim minority groups in western China, a growing number […]
Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
Source: The Atlantic BY Derek Thompson In his 1930 essay “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” the economist John Maynard Keynes predicted a 15-hour workweek in the 21st century, creating the equivalent […]
As Pope Francis hosts summit on abuse, a N.J. priest speaks publicly about how McCarrick allegedly ruined his life
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein Less than a week after Theodore McCarrick became the first cardinal ever defrocked, a New Jersey priest has for the first time agreed to […]
US religious freedom envoy: Pakistan has ‘desire to change’
Source: Associated Press By JON GAMBRELL ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Pakistan has “a desire to change” its ways and be removed from an American blacklist of countries […]
40-Foot Cross Divides a Community and Prompts a Supreme Court Battle
Source: The New York Times By Adam Liptak BLADENSBURG, Md. — In the back room of the Colmar Manor American Legion post, about a mile from a 40-foot cross honoring […]
The Essential Black Muslim Reading List
Black Muslims are not lost in history, even if their history has been disregarded. By Vanessa Taylor February 26, 2019 In 2018, the Council on American-Islamic Relations reported that anti-Muslim […]
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib show Muslim women don’t need saving
The two US congresswomen are shattering all kinds of damaging stereotypes about Muslim women. by Sahar Aziz 26 Feb 2019 US congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were sworn into […]
Address root causes of refugee problem
Feb 27,2019 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The Warsaw meeting on the refugee crisis in the Middle East and, indeed, elsewhere in the world ended on a positive note, calling for […]
The Military Is Cracking Down on Immigrant Recruits. But Advocates Say It’s Ignoring a White Nationalism Problem
Source: Time By ABIGAIL ABRAMS February 21, 2019 Civil rights advocates say the arrest of a Coast Guard lieutenant charged with planning a massive domestic terrorist attack show the military has allowed a […]
Fewer Americans view deficit reduction as a top priority as the nation’s red ink increases
Source: Pew Research Center BY BAXTER OLIPHANT The nation’s growing budget deficit has prompted little alarm among the U.S. public. In fact, the share of Americans who say reducing the budget deficit should be a top policy priority is […]
The way U.S. teens spend their time is changing, but differences between boys and girls persist
Source: Pew Research Center BY GRETCHEN LIVINGSTON Teens today are spending their time differently than they did a decade ago. They’re devoting more time to sleep and homework, and less time […]
Most U.S. Teens See Anxiety and Depression as a Major Problem Among Their Peers
Source: Pew Research Center BY JULIANA MENASCE HOROWITZ AND NIKKI GRAF Anxiety and depression are on the rise among America’s youth and, whether they personally suffer from these conditions or not, seven-in-ten teens today see […]
Mahershala Ali, The First Muslim Actor To Win Two Oscars, Paid Tribute To Jinnah While Accepting His Award
Source: Mango Baaz By Arslan Athar In 2017, Mahershala Ali made history by being the first African American man to win an Oscar, on top of which he was the […]
What should be done in the Middle East? Ask the Romans
The more you travel, the more you realise the obvious, says Robert Fisk: globalisation is nothing new. To fix today’s crises, we must look at the fall of the world’s […]