Dec 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The fall of Aleppo to the coalition of Syrian-Iranian-Russian-Hizbollah forces this week is likely to be a symbolic and historical turning point amidst different eras. How events play themselves out will be determined in the same way as events in Syria have […]
Dec 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The centuries turn over, the big players evolve, the local battlefields change, but the results remain the same: when external military powers intervene in the Middle East to secure their national interests, the result is inevitably local chaos that also generates retaliations […]
Source: International Business Times By Christina Silva Arabs have “wronged Islam and distorted the image of Muslims,” Saudi Prince Khaled Al-Faisal warned in a speech this week. The prince said Muslims should “not […]
Source: Jordan Times Bana has 330,000 online followers By AFP – Dec 21,2016 ANKARA — Seven-year-old Bana Al Abed, whose Twitter account gave a tragic description of the bombing of […]
Jessica Hartogs, Special to CNBC.com Tuesday, 8 Mar 2016 | 7:56 AM ETCNBC.com The prolonged conflict in Syria has already had a devastating economic impact but could yet spiral to cost the country more than $1 trillion, according to a new report. The report published Tuesday by children’s charity World […]
Jordan to send ambassador to Iraq, as Baghdad intends to open border for trade By JT – Dec 20,2016 – AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday discussed political and security developments in Iraq with Iraqi political leaders at Al Husseiniya Palace, according to a Royal Court statement. The […]
By Mohammad Ghazal – Dec 19,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The bus driver was supposed to show up at 7:30am on Sunday to pick up a group of tourists from Amman to Karak. He was late because of a technical problem, which made the tourists a little upset. […]
Reuters International DEC 19, 2016 – A woman sits with her child reading the Koran while waiting to be evacuated with others from a rebel-held sector of eastern Aleppo, Syria December 17, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail (reuters_tickers) By Lisa Barrington and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) – Armed men burned five […]
All civilians trapped in old castle freed — Momani By Rana Husseini – Dec 18,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Ambulances are seen in front of the Italian Hospital in Karak, where some of the injured in a terror attack were evacuated on Sunday (Reuters photo) AMMAN — Four terrorists […]
By AFP – Dec 17,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Smoke rises as Libyan forces allied with the UN-backed government take cover during a battle with Daesh militants in Sirte on October 2 (Reuters photo) BAGHDAD — Multiple ground assaults and a deluge of air strikes shrank the Daesh terror […]
(Friday, December 16th, 2016 As innocent civilians continue to be slaughtered within the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo, our greatest present-day humanitarian catastrophe can be largely attributed to the fact that the Muslim world has failed the people of Syria. Even though many nations and organizations (especially the United States […]
1. Muslim educational attainment Among the world’s major religious groups, Muslims have made some of the greatest gains in educational achievement in recent decades. The share of Muslim adults (ages 25 and older) with at least some formal schooling has risen by 25 percentage points in the past three generations, […]
Large gaps in education levels persist, but all faiths are making gains – particularly among women Jews are more highly educated than any other major religious group around the world, while Muslims and Hindus tend to have the fewest years of formal schooling, according to a Pew Research Center global […]
There was a period in 2011 and 2012 when there were genuinely independent opposition activists operating inside Syria, but as the jihadis took over these brave people were forced to flee abroad, fell silent or were dead Patrick Cockburn @indyworld It has just become more dangerous to be a foreign […]
Source: The Independent By Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden Government programme targets threats to ‘ideological security’ in schools Saudi Arabia is launching a programme to “inoculate” children against Westernisation, atheism, liberalism and secularism. They were listed as threats to “ideological security”, ahead of the danger from extremist groups including Isis and al-Qaeda and […]
Dec 15,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Her Majesty Queen Rania on Tuesday honoured the winners of the 2016 Queen Rania Award for Excellence in Education at a special ceremony, presenting […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE | Published — Monday 12 December 2016 Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Mosque, Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed Al-Tayeb. (AFP) ABU DHABI: The head of Al-Azhar, Egypt’s top Sunni authority, said on Monday that the Western concept of modernity is not the “best example” for Muslim women to follow. […]
December 13, 2016 A.P. TEHRAN: Iran has proposed the formation of a bloc of Muslim countries to fight terrorism and boost economic cooperation that would include its regional rival Saudi Arabia. Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani told a security conference on Sunday that the two countries, along with Turkey, Egypt, […]
By REUTERSDEC. 12, 2016 DOHA — Saudi Arabia’s King Salman sent condolences to Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday after a church bombing in Cairo, a supportive gesture amid reports of tensions between the Arab states over Syria’s war. A bombing at Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral on Sunday killed […]
There’s nothing of their city left to go home to – but even if there was, those who fled the conflict still have reason to fear for their lives in Syria Isabel Hunter 8 hours ago 4 comments 16 The fight for Aleppo is all but over, and already voices are […]