Saudi billionaire pledges entire fortune to charity
Editor’s Note: Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal had already announced that he will donate his fortune to Charity. Let’s see what is left of it once the Crown Prince has taken […]
Walking a fine line between Syrian Kurds and Turkey
Dec 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen No one can predict what the Trump administration will do in this region where Arabs, Kurds, Iranians and Turks […]
Trump’s error on Jerusalem is a disaster for the Arab world … and the US too
Rashid Khalidi The president’s foolish move in recognising the city as the capital of Israel will have negative consequences impossible to predict Palestinians in Rafah protest on 6 December against […]
Trump asks Saudi Arabia to allow immediate aid to Yemen
Reuters International This content was published on December 7, 2017 FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters before departing the White House for New York in Washington, U.S., […]
EXCLUSIVE: ‘American mercenaries are torturing’ Saudi elite rounded up by new crown prince – and billionaire Prince Alwaleed was hung upside down ‘just to send a message’
Source: Daily Mail UK Source in Saudi Arabia says American private security contractors are carrying out’interrogations’ on princes and billionaires arrested in crackdown Detained members of Saudi elite have […]
Saudi says most people detained in anti-corruption sweep have settled
Reuters International This content was published on December 5, 2017 (reuters_tickers) RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor said on Tuesday most of the people detained in a sweeping anti-corruption campaign launched last month have agreed to settlements to avoid prosecution while the rest could be held for months. […]
News from Turkey: Former SDF spokesman spills the truth
İLNUR ÇEVIK @ilnurcevik Former spokesman of the Syrian Democratic Forces Talal Silo speaks to Anadolu Agency. To understand what is going on with U.S.-backed terrorist groups in Syria’s conflict zones, we should pay attention to what the former SDF spokesman says Articles COLUMNS Macron, Barzani playing their own game […]
Lebanon’s Hariri rescinds resignation, drawing line under crisis
Reuters International This content was published on December 5, 2017 9:49 PMDec 5, 2017 – 21:49 Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun talks to Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri during the cabinet […]
What are roots of anti-Islamism in the West?
MUHITTIN ATAMAN @MuhittinAtaman The Western world has been experiencing a dramatic increase of xenophobia and Islamophobia for the last several decades. The correct usage of this concept is […]
An Israeli dream might come true if Trump declares Jerusalem the capital – but so will an Arab nightmare
Could Trump expect another warm welcome and traditional sword dance in Riyadh? Would the Saudis choose to buy all those billions of weapons from the US if it hands Jerusalem […]
Qatar to meet milk needs by 2018 amid Gulf crisis
28 Nov 2017 – AFP Doha: Qatar will be self-sufficient in milk by next July, thanks to blockade-busting cows flown in to boost supplies after some neighbouring Gulf states severed […]
GCC summit cut short by a day
05 Dec 2017 – 14:26 Kuwaiti and foreign journalists gather in the media centre hall during the GCC summit in Kuwait City on December 5, 2017. / AFP / Yasser Al-Zayyat Al Jazeera / Agencies Doha: A key regional summit of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries has been […]
Anniversary: Ibn Rushd
Full name: Abū al-Walīd Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Ibn Rushd Arabic name: أبو الوليد محمد بن أحمد بن رشد Latin name: Averroes Date of birth: 1126 Date of death: 10 Dec, […]
Organization of Islamic Cooperation says no compromise on Jerusalem
Arab News | Published — Tuesday 5 December 2017 JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has deplored attempts to change the historical and legal status of the occupied city of Jerusalem. In an extraordinary meeting of the OIC’s Committee of Permanent Representatives on Monday, a statement was issued expressing […]
Travel agencies can now issue Saudi tourist visas
ARAB NEWS | Published — Tuesday 5 December 2017 JEDDAH/RIYADH: Travel agencies in category D can now issue visas for tourists and for educational or medical treatment purposes inside and outside the Kingdom. The Saudi Commission for Tourism and National Heritage (SCTH) in Jeddah has issued the first license allowing […]
Syrian boy wins Children’s Peace Prize for building refugee school in Lebanon
Kieran Guilbert LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A teenage Syrian refugee won a prestigious international prize on Monday for building a school and providing an education to hundreds of children […]
What the Russian Revolution can teach us about the Middle East today
The Bolshevik demonisation of the ‘White’ Russians in the ferocious anti-religious, anti-capitalist posters on display in Paris at the Musee de l’Armee are not dissimilar to the “war against terror” which Bashar al-Assad and the Russians think they are fighting in Syria today Robert Fisk Paris The casualty figures don’t […]
Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemen’s former leader, killed in Sanaa
Former Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been killed amid fighting between his supporters and their former allies, the Houthi rebel movement. Officials from Mr Saleh’s General People’s Congress party […]
Mehdi Hasan Rips Thomas Friedman’s “Nauseating” Column in NYT Praising Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince
StoryNovember 30, 2017 Watch Full Show Guests Mehdi Hasan award-winning British journalist and broadcaster at Al Jazeera English. He is host of the Al Jazeera interview program “UpFront” and a […]
Muhammad bin Kushner, Jared bin Salman, Daffy Duck & Co
by Hamid Dabashi Thomas Friedman is the latest in the long panoply of Lawrences of Arabia dashing in and out of the peninsula in search of their oriental fantasies, […]