‘Islamic Empires’ Review: Revisiting a Glorious Past
Dow Jones, a News Corp company By Tunku Varadarajan Jan. 31, 2020 Justin Marozzi is a British journalist and popular historian who frequented such places as Egypt and […]
Coins of Islam
Arab News Sunday . February 02, 2020 One of the world’s most impressive collections of Arab and Islamic coinage ever assembled, the ‘Coins of Islam: History Revealed’ exhibition, curated by […]
Dispute at al-Azhar conference reflects deep divisions over Islamic renewal
Source: Arab Weekly By Amr Emam, who is a Cairo-based journalist. He has contributed to the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the UN news site IRIN. Cairo University […]
Saudi Arabia blocks Iran from Islamic grouping’s meeting – Tehran
Feb 2, 2020 – swissinfo.ch DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has barred an Iranian delegation from an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Jeddah on Monday where U.S. President […]
Arab League rejects so-called peace plan for Mideast
Pan-Arab bloc rules out US president’s so-called ‘Deal of the Century’ from consideration Gulsen Topcu | 01.02.2020 CAIRO The Arab League on Saturday announced that it rejected U.S. President Donald […]
King of Jordan confirms ‘firm’ stance on Palestine cause
Jordanian King Abdullah II confirmed on Friday his country’s “firm” position on the Palestinian cause, as well as its support for the Palestinian people, Jordanian and official Palestinian media reported. […]
The Erasure of Palestinians From Trump’s Mideast “Peace Plan” Has a Hundred-Year History
Rashid Khalidi February 1 2020, 1:00 p.m. Editor’s Note: This excerpt from Columbia University historian Rashid Khalidi’s newly released book, “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler […]
Secret Israeli Document Reveals Plan to Keep Arabs Off Their Lands
A document unsealed after 60 years reveals the Israeli government’s secret intentions behind the imposition of a military government on the country’s Arab citizens in 1948: not to enhance security […]
Natural Science : The Vast Influence of Ibn Sina, Pioneer of Medicine
In the 11th century CE, science was rapidly advancing in the Islamic world. The scholar Ibn Sina (Avicenna) synthesized its medical wisdom. By: Liz Tracey January 29, 2020 One thousand years ago, medicine not only looked different from what it is now, it also varied geographically. While many of […]
Turkey’s Erdogan criticises Arab silence over U.S. Middle East plan
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday criticised Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab nations for not speaking out against the U.S. Middle East plan which he said […]
The painful truth for Saudi Arabia: it needs the Iranian regime to survive
Kim Ghattas THE GUARDIAN For all its fiery rhetoric, Riyadh actually benefits from a standoff between Iran and the US Wed 29 Jan 2020 In a video animation released […]
How Israel teaches its children to hate
Much like white South Africans, Jewish Israelis will never voluntarily give up their privileged position as settlers July 26, 2019 Dissident Israeli scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s important academic study, “Palestine in […]
As prominent Israelis dedicated to peace, we oppose Trump’s apartheid plan
As Israelis dedicated to a peaceful future for our country and for our Palestinian neighbours, we state our principled opposition to the Trump administration’s plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This […]
Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ is so absurd and banal, it’s impossible to take it seriously
Truly, all must read these 80 pages. And every reader should go through them twice – in case, first time round, they missed some extra egregious indignity inflicted upon the […]
Abu Dis, an unlikely capital for a future Palestinian state
Jan 29, 2020 – swissinfo.ch By Stephen Farrell and Rami Ayyub JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Abu Dis, the town earmarked for the Palestinian capital in U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East […]
Trump’s ‘peace plan’ is beyond insulting. That’s deliberate
Source: The Guardian By Yousef Munayyer, is the executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights US proposals always treat Palestinians as second-class citizens. But this time Trump has […]
Jordan fears long-term threat to its national security following Trump’s peace plan
Osama al Sharif 30th January 2020 al-monitor.com It took the Jordanian government less than an hour to respond to the US peace plan following its release by President Donald Trump […]
Senior Defense Officials Warn Annexation Would Endanger Israel’s Peace With Jordan
Jordan’s King Abdullah is facing internal pressure, top officials say in assessment conveyed to political leaders, sounding the alarm about ramifications of any unilateral moves for relations with Amman and […]
How Arab leaders abandoned Muslim causes
CJ Werleman TRT WORLD 30th January 2020 The drastic realignment of international alliances leaves vulnerable Muslims with few powerful friends. US President Donald Trump’s unveiled peace plan, a promise to […]
Algeria intensifies harassment of religious minorities
After a two month lull, following heavy criticism on the forced closure of Christian churches in the Kabylie region, the authorities in Algeria resumed their repression against Christians this week, […]