Source: AT Fifty years after the Six-Day War, which marked the beginning of Israel’s occupation of East Jerusalem and the West Bank, the Middle East remains a region in seemingly perpetual crisis. So it is no surprise that, when addressing the region, politicians, diplomats, and the donor and humanitarian community […]
Shahid Nadeem Updated Jun 11, 2017 48 COMMENTS Photo by White Star Nearly 60 years ago, Chaudhary Mohammad Hussain, a schoolteacher and petty landlord of Jhang saw […]
Jun 07,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab Fifty years is a long time. The Israeli occupation has lasted way too long. The problem is that there is no credible plan to end this occupation at present. What is needed is a national Palestinian, Arab and international strategy that can […]
Reuters International JUN 15, 2017 – A group of women react as they talk about family members seized on Sunday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents during a rally […]
When a classmate told 19-year-old Heraa Hashmi that “all terrorists are Muslims” she began to compile a dossier of all instances of Muslims condemning terror attacks ‘I wanted to show how weak the argument is that Muslims don’t care about terrorism’ … Heraa Hashmi. Photograph: Courtesy Heraa Hashmi Arwa […]
From the sectionMiddle East Image captionTens of thousands of civilians have been displaced by the fighting for Raqqa UN war crimes investigators say US-led coalition air strikes on Islamic State militants in the Syrian city of Raqqa are causing “staggering loss of life”. Coalition warplanes are supporting an offensive on […]
13 Jun 2017 – 21:13 Jordanian King Abdullah II meeting with HH the Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah of Kuwait. AFP / Jordanian Royal Palace / Yousef Allen By […]
WITHOUT any verification, some foreign media flashed a report the other day that Pakistan is sending troops to Qatar in the wake of tension brewing amongst Gulf States. The foreign office was quick to reject the report as completely fabricated and baseless adding these false reports appear to be part […]
Islamic ethics is about building compassionate and just societies and nothing more or less October 2, 2016 Source: Ummah Link Countries Ranking Based on Islamic Ethics How Islamic are the […]
June 12, 2017 TEHRAN – A professor of global thought and comparative philosophies says he thinks it is “essential” for Iran to launch a “Ramadan diplomatic offensive” to lessen the effects of the blockade on Qatar by Saudi Arabia and some other Persian Gulf Arab states and to “signal to […]
Analysis: Tiny emirate has found who its real friends are after it was so casually abandoned by US President. But in Qatari business circles, there are fears the move was […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL An Israeli flag is seen in front of the illegal Jewish settlement of Maaleh Adumim in West Bank, on the outskirts of Jerusalem, in this 2009 file […]
İLNUR ÇEVIK @ilnurcevik Published June 13, 2017 No one really knew how the Daesh killers came about. They just appeared on the scene, wreaked havoc, beheaded people, displayed every form of cruelty and now they are vanishing into thin air in war-torn Syria. In Iraq they are about to give up Mosul […]
YUNUS PAKSOY@yunuspaksoy ANKARA Published June 13, 2017 Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan (L), Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi (Reuters File Photo) After President Erdoğan said ‘Turkey knew which Gulf countries were happy with the coup attempt on the night of July 15, some eyes are turned to the UAE, which allegedly […]
Reuters International JUN 13, 2017 A girl holds a picture depicting Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani during a demonstration in support of him in Doha, Qatar June 11, 2017. REUTERS/Naseem Zeitoon (reuters_tickers) By John Davison and Andrew Torchia DOHA/DUBAI (Reuters) – Qatar’s financial markets stabilised on Monday […]
Reuters International JUN 12, 2017 – FILE PHOTO: A man purported to be the reclusive leader of the militant Islamic State Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi making what would have been his first public appearance, at a mosque in the centre of Iraq’s second city, Mosul, according to a video recording posted […]
The primary weapon of a terrorist organisation is to hijack, divide and poison communities. With every non-Muslim that begins to fear Islam, the ‘so-called’ Islamic State becomes stronger Emily Parker 70 comments […]
Neoclassical economists created a false narrative of the history of economics Evonomics: In one of the most seminal works in the field of history of economic thought (History of Economic Analysis, 1954), Joseph Schumpeter argued that there is a “Great Gap” in the history of economics. The concept justifies the […]
Jordanians said diplomatic relations should be downgraded with Israel, not Qatar and voiced their support of Qatar Editor / Internet12:35 June 10, 2017Yeni Şafak Qatar Emir Al-Sani and King Abdullah of Jordan Citizens of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Egypt and Jordan are outraged for cutting ties […]
DAILY SABAH WITH ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL The Arab League has denied plans to discuss the diplomatic crisis in the Gulf during a scheduled meeting on Monday. The pan-Arab body is set to meet in Cairo at the level of permanent delegates to discuss the growing Israeli presence in Africa. “There […]