Arab World

Finnish was the second language of Sweden for centuries. Now Arabic is overtaking it.

Washington Post: Officially, Sweden doesn’t keep a record of the languages its inhabitants speak. That fact was infuriating to Mikael Parkvall, a linguist at Stockholm University, so he decided to find out for himself. What is the most popular non-Swedish language in Sweden? After poring over various statistics and studies, Parkvall came to […]

Palestine in the headline

Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh There is no doubt that the eight-column headline in the sports page of The Washington Post last Sunday was remarkable and unprecedented: “Palestine Marathon sparks a growing push for movement over politics.” Never before have the American media, certainly not the country’s […]

Lessons from the Brussels attacks

Mar 29,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH The early morning terrorist attacks at the main Brussels airport in Zaventem and at a crowded metro station shocked the whole world for their barbarity, their indiscriminate nature and the large number of innocent civilian casualties. The death toll of that bloody […]

Admission of guilt

Mar 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL US President Barack Obama said his administration will start declassifying documents related to Argentina’s “dirty war”, between 1976 and 1983, during which over 20,000 citizens disappeared.  These “missing” Marxists, labour union leaders, human rights activists and leftist opponents were secretly detained, tortured and murdered, […]