FIFA World Cup: Football unites despite controversy
BY ABDENNOUR TOUMI NOV 24, 2022 – DAILY SABAH A girl waves a Qatari flag at a fan zone during the opening ceremony for the World Cup, prior to the […]
Yemen conflict cannot be settled through violence, UN envoy tells Arab News
People shop for fresh produce in an open-air market in Yemen’s third city of Taiz on October 4, 2022. (AFP) EPHREM KOSSAIFY November 23, 2022 NEW YORK: The UN special envoy […]
Lebanon still faces multiple crisis
Nov 23,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen Jibran Bassil, who heads Lebanon’s Free Patriotic Movement (FPM), has been told by its ally Hizbollah the group will not support him […]
Report: Israel killed 40 Palestinian children, detained over 770 this year
November 21, 2022 at 11:17 am | Published in: Israel, Middle East, News, Palestine Palestinian lawyers hold a vigil condemning Israel’s killing of five children in a raid on the al-Faluja cemetery during its […]
Iraq’s ‘theft of the century’: How $2.5bn in public money ‘evaporated’
Iraqi finance ministry report seen by MEE reveals details of fake cheques plot in which trillions of dinars were stolen from tax authority’s bank accounts 247 cheques worth about $2.5bn […]
World Faiths: Parents & Children
MAGAZINE: EDITION APRIL 2022 World Religions 22nd November 2022 Add Comment Thy Lord has commanded, ‘Worship none but Him, and show kindness to parents. If one of them or both of them […]
Blue Diamond Affair: Saudis end dispute with Thailand over stolen gems
Saudi Arabia and Thailand have ended a 30-year row over a scandal involving stolen jewels and a string of murders. The resumption of full diplomatic ties came during a visit […]
Make COP27 a turning point for food systems
Nov 21,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Naoko Ishii and Joshua Omonuk TOKYO — Decades of progress on reducing food insecurity are being reversed. The number of undernourished people is rising […]
Why the decision to investigate Abu Akleh’s murder is unprecedented
Nov 22,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Ramzy Baroud The recent decision by the United States Department of Justice to open an investigation into the killing, last May, of Palestinian-American journalist […]
Why the FBI investigation of Israel is important
RAMZY BAROUD November 22, 2022 This month’s decision by the US Department of Justice to open an investigation into the May killing of Palestinian American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh is […]
Qatar World Cup: Emmanuel Macron makes tone-deaf comments about ‘not politicising sport’
CHANTELLE BILLSON NOVEMBER 18, 2022 French president Emmanuel Macron. (ERIC GAILLARD/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) French president Emmanuel Macron has said the Qatar World Cup shouldn’t be a forum for raising political […]
World Cup 2022: What’s behind the sustained condemnation of Qatar?
Imran Mulla , Peter Oborne 18 November 2022 It is right that Qatar is scrutinised for its treatment of migrant workers and the LGBTQ+ community. But criticism must be based on […]
Islam and the West: The entire binary is false
Hamid Dabashi 9 November 2022 13:19 UTC | Last update: 1 week 4 days ago The false divide between Islam and the West has little to do with the lived experiences of Muslims across […]
EXPLAINER: Islam’s ban on alcohol and how it’s applied
The last-minute decision to ban the sale of beer at World Cup stadiums in Qatar is the latest example of some of the tensions that have played out ahead of […]
Palestine has ‘natural, legal right’ to become full state member of UN, Ambassador Riyad Mansour tells Arab News
Previous EXCLUSIVE 1 / 5 Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour attending a UN Security Council meeting in 2018. (AFP file) EXCLUSIVE 2 / 5 Palestinian Ambassador to the UN Riyad Mansour (C) attends […]
Return of Netanyahu and expected regional ramifications
Nov 20,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Amer Al Sabaileh The return of Benjamin Netanyahu to the Israeli political scene marks the political shift in Israel towards the right following the […]
Fact check: 11 eye-catching lines from Gianni Infantino’s speech in Qatar
Fifa’s president told the world he feels Arab, African, gay and disabled, while the media are racist hypocrites. So how accurate was his World Cup monologue? Source: The Guardian By […]
Israel has only itself to blame for its referral to the ICJ
YOSSI MEKELBERG November 19, 2022 Israeli security forces hold back a Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, on November 19, 2022 (AFP) It remains to be […]
Fake graves cannot bury the truth and bolster false Israeli claims in Jerusalem
DAOUD KUTTAB November 19, 2022 Short Url The Israeli government, with fanatical support from radical Zionist nationalists, is so obsessed with proving its connection to Jerusalem that it has recently […]
FIFA chief blasts ‘hypocrisy’ of Western nations on eve of World Cup
By AFP – Nov 19,2022 – Giant replicas of the football are installed on a hotel in Doha on Saturday, ahead of the Qatar 2022 World Cup football tournament (AFP photo) DOHA […]