The UAE is a tool in the service of the US and Israel
August 4, 2020 US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (R) meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) after traveling abroad for the first time amid the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) […]
Rights groups: UAE hired 450 mercenaries to carry out assassinations in Yemen
September 19, 2020 UAE mercenaries in Yemen [Twitter] September 19, 2020 at 1:03 pm The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has hired thousands of mercenaries and deployed 450 of them in […]
Adrift: How the World Lost Its Way by Amin Maalouf – review
Ian Black © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Muhammed Muheisen/AP By unhappy coincidence, Amin Maalouf’s thought-provoking analysis of what is wrong with our lives was published in English shortly after […]
COVID-19: West’s zero-risk society is the biggest risk of all
DR. JOHN C. HULSMAN September 18, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/9ca55 The normally bustling Rue de Rivoli in central Paris is deserted on March 17, 2020, after a lockdown came […]
Beirut must be saved
Sep 16,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – Marwan Abboud BEIRUT — For millennia, Lebanon has been a meeting point for different cultures and peoples, and also a victim of regional power […]
Another step towards Middle East ‘peace’ which is anything but – at least for the Palestinians
While the Palestinians will go on losing their land, the Gulf princes and their satraps will ensure that Israel is awarded peace at any cost, writes Robert Fisk 15 hours ago […]
Occupying Palestine is rotting Israel from inside. No Gulf peace deal can hide that
Article BY Raja Shehadeh More than a quarter of a century after Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shook hands on the White House lawn, Israel has managed to turn its occupation of […]
Jerusalem Al-Aqsa mosque compound to close over virus
The call to prayer will continue to ring out across Jerusalem’s Old City Israel has previously blocked access to the flashpoint site, which is a focus of Palestinian aspirations for […]
The Arab Betrayal of Palestine
Sep 14, 2020 DAOUD KUTTAB For good reason, Arab and Muslim-majority countries have agreed that normalizing relations with Israel must be made conditional on the end of the occupation of […]
UAE, Bahrain eye manifold benefits from Israel ties normalization
A picture taken on August 31, 2020, shows an Emirati man, wearing a protective mask with the flags of the US, Israel and the UAE, upon the arrival of […]
The Case for God: Putting Together the Missing Pieces
By Sabahat Ali, who is a graduate from the Canadian Ahmadiyya Institute of Languages and Theology. The story goes something like this: Three college students were engaged in a heated […]
Virus crisis exacerbates negative effects of children’s Internet use
By Maram Kayed – Sep 14,2020 -JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The SecDev Foundation held a month-long awareness campaign regarding the safe use of the Internet by children, based on a […]
Mass grave of Palestinians killed by Israel in 1948 found
Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Proposing Daryl Davis as a Peace Maker for Palestinians and Israel, for he attends KKK rallies, despite being black How […]
Israel normalisation may partition Al-Aqsa Mosque: Analysts
A clause in the UAE-Bahrain accords with Israel leaves ‘door wide open’ to Jewish prayer at holy site, analysts say. by Mersiha Gadzo 18 hours ago A statement embedded […]
Israeli handed 3 life sentences for killing Palestinian family
Source: Al Jazeera Court gives Jewish settler three life sentences for murdering a Palestinian toddler and his parents in an arson attack. An Israeli court handed a Jewish settler three […]
Petra lost and found
Source: National geographic In the early 1800s, a Swiss explorer tricked his way into Petra, the ancient oasis whose location had been a closely guarded secret for centuries. BY CRUZ SÁNCHEZ […]
Arabian history in Sicily
THE HISTORY OF SICILY As-Salamu ‘Alaykum would have been a common greeting in Sicily a thousand years ago. Why? Because from 827 to 1061, Sicily was under Arab rule. It was […]
Building ‘Islamic will’ vital in achieving human dignity — Jordan’s Prince Hassan
13 SEP 2020 THE JORDAN TIMES Published 13 Sep,2020 via The Jordan Times AMMAN — Institutionalising Zakat and solidarity is “a human tendency rather than a religious obligation in light of […]
Book Review: Stealing From The Saracens — How Islam built Europe
Book by Diana Darke, who is an author, Middle East cultural writer, Arabist and occasional BBC broadcaster. Her work has appeared in the Guardian, the Financial Times, the Sunday Times, […]
The pandemic still exists – Islam teaches caution
11th September 2020 Albeit somewhat nervously, schools have been given the green light to open in England while the coronavirus is still at large. The “goddess” of science had months […]