Meeting an injured soldier in the Syrian army before a heavy night of shelling Robert Fisk @indyvoices Thursday 19 May 2016 Lebanon, 21 July 1989 Private Yahia Saloum of the Syrian army sat on the stairs of my apartment block, his head in his hands, a large bandage strapped to his […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Wednesday 18 May 2016 GOOD WORK: Umrah pilgrims hailed the Saudi government for mataf expansion in Makkah. MAKKAH: Umrah pilgrims have hailed the mataf expansion in Makkah as “distinguished” and “amazing,” saying that the achievement speaks a lot about the attention the Saudi government […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Tuesday 17 May 2016 JEDDAH: The Council of Ministers said Iran is attempting to politicize the Haj by refusing to sign an agreement mandatory for all countries seeking to send pilgrims on the holy journey. The Cabinet meeting, chaired by Custodian of the Two Holy […]
By AFP – May 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on March 16, shows UNHCR’s Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie Pitt greeting (centre) refugees and migrants during her […]
By Reuters – May 16,2016 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A century after Britain and France secretly mapped out a Middle East they would control upon defeating the Ottomans in World War I, its borders have been blurred by sectarian bloodshed — and some in the region see […]
By AFP – May 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES ISTANBUL — Resentment over the Sykes-Picot Agreement between Britain and France that carved up the Middle East from the ruins of the Ottoman Empire remains, 100 years later, a major factor in Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s foreign policy. The May […]
May 16,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby Christians in the Levant, especially those in Syria, Iraq and Palestine, are facing grave challenges that are either misunderstood or ignored in the West. In recent years, protecting them, or even acknowledging their existence, has only been a concern of policymakers or advocacy groups […]
The escalating rivalries and animosities between Iran and Saudi Arabia have nothing to do with the Sunni-Shia divide. Visitors relax on the grounds of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar [Getty] by Hamid Dabashi @HamidDabashi Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature […]
Beyond the paradox of celebrating a bygone Islamic civilization at the height of Islamophobia in the United States. Scene from the manuscript of the poem, the Romance of Varqa and Gulshah, paintings by Khuwayyi. c 1250AD Konya, Turkey [Getty] by Hamid Dabashi @HamidDabashi Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor […]
By AFP – May 15,2016 – An Israeli soldier asks a protester with a Palestinian flag to go further during confrontations following a rally to commemorate the ‘Nakbeh’ or ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic in reference to the creation of Israel in 1948 on Palestinian land on Sunday in the […]
After Badreddine’s killing, we may never know if the 2005 death of Lebanese prime minister Rafiq Hariri marked the start of Saudi Arabia’s efforts to destroy Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian regime Robert Fisk @indyvoices For almost five years, UN investigators wanted to find Mustafa Badreddine. And now, at last, […]
Nadeem Hanif May 15, 2016 DUBAI // Integrating Arabic and Islamic Studies into the wider curriculum will be the focus of a new school that will open this summer. The Next Generation School will open its doors to children for the next academic year and promises to develop both […]
By AFP – May 14,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Arab Israelis and other supporters wave Palestinian flags as they march during a protest to mark the right of return for refugees who fled their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, at a village near Rahat in southern Israel, on Thursday. The […]
May 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Today marks the 68th year of Nakbeh, or Palestinian catastrophe. In 1948, Israel was created on Palestinian land, starting decades of Palestinian suffering, sacrifice, dispossession and displacement. Palestinians, both Muslim and Christian, who were a majority in their homeland before the start of the […]
May 14,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Mahmoud N. Zidan On May 11 and 12, many Israelis marked the 68th anniversary of their so-called Independence Day, Yom Ha’atzmaut, according to the Hebrew calendar. That day laid the groundwork for implementing the myth of a greater — only in size — Israel, a […]
AGENCIES | Published — Saturday 14 May 2016 This undated handout image released on Friday, May 13, 2016, by Hezbollah Media Department, shows slain top military commander Mustafa Badreddine smiling during a meeting. (AP) BEIRUT: Top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed, the Lebanese group said on Friday, […]
Mariam Anwer | Published — Friday 13 May 2016 ALLAH Almighty has made human beings weak; they need to be guided and are prone to making mistakes and committing sins. Some do so out of ignorance of the laws set by Allah while; yet there are some, who even though […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Saturday 14 May 2016 EASE OF PRAYER: The mataf around the Kaaba is now completely free of the temporary bridge, providing more space for worshippers to perform tawaf (circumambulate around the House of God) and say their prayers. (SPA) MAKKAH: The temporary mataf has […]
The Mirage by Jamal Sanad Dr. Al-Suwaidi The Mirage is an expression of His Excellency Dr. Jamal Sanad Al-Suwaidi’s perspective that the struggle in which many Arab and Muslim countries are currently engaged against extremist groups and organizations is not limited to the realm of military and security operations; it […]
WEATHER, AMMAN Today, May 13, 2016 By Reuters – May 12,2016 -JORDAN TIMES ANKARA — Iranian Muslims will miss the annual Hajj (the greater Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca) in September, media reported on Thursday, as Tehran and Riyadh traded blame over a failure to agree organisational details. The […]