By Mohammad Ghazal – Jan 30,2016 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Syrians constitute 46 per cent of non-Jordanians living in the Kingdom and 13.2 per cent of the overall population, preliminary results of the national census conducted in late November showed on Saturday. Of Jordan’s total population of 9.5 million, […]
Source: Arab News By Jermaine Jackson, who is the brother of world-famous star late Michael Jackson. He here recounts how he embraced Islam. It was way back in 1989 when […]
IMAM KAMIL MUFTI Published — Friday 29 January 2016 God is in no need of our worship, it is mankind that needs to worship God. If no-one were to worship God, it would not take away from His glory in any way, and if all of mankind were to worship […]
Jan 28,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI How should we view and respond to the growing flow of refugees and migrants from, within and beyond the Middle East? Is this mainly a temporary humanitarian challenge? An occasional security threat? A cultural and political concern for mostly white and Christian […]
Jan 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh By “lost generation” I am not referring to Gertrude Stein’s famous description of the generation that grew up during and after World War I in America and Europe. I am borrowing the term to describe the current, sad, state of our young […]
Jan 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh The unbending nature of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose extremist policies have crippled any peace negotiations with the Palestinians, has once again emerged this week when he revealed his intention to return Israeli settlers to Hebron, a prominent Palestinian town in […]
Saudi Arabia Ambassador Abdallah Y. Al-Mouallimi addresses the United Nations General Assembly, in this Jan. 22, 2015 file photo. (AP) ARAB NEWS Published — Thursday 28 January 2016 JEDDAH: The Kingdom has called on the Security Council to set Israel a time frame to abide by international agreements to withdraw […]
Jan 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL In a recent statement to Israel Radio and Army Radio, the American ambassador to Israel, Dan Shapiro, said that the current state of Israeli-Palestinian relations is characterised by a set of circumstances “that are leading to a bi-national state”. Israel’s continued expansion of settlements […]
Jan 27,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Daoud Kuttab In today’s politically expedient age, it has become rare to see a leader defend one of his own. Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president, went on air this week, attempting to deflect the avalanche of angry protests directed at the Palestinian intelligence chief Majid […]
Jordan Times – 26 January 2016 – RAMZI BAROUD Whenever Mariam Aljamal’s children hear the sound of thunder at night, they wet their beds. Their reaction is instinctive, and is shared by a large number of children throughout the Gaza Strip. Mariam’s three children — Jamal, Lina and Sarah — were all […]
Jan 26,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah Earlier this week, a 13-year-old girl was shot dead by an Israeli security guard near the Almon Jewish settlement, in the Jerusalem area, during an alleged stabbing attempt. Ruqayya Eid Abu Eid is not the first child to be killed by Israeli soldiers […]
Jan 26,2016 -JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL During an interview with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, on the sidelines of the Davos World Economic Forum, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu talked about the Syrian conflict and how he sees it end. There is no military solution to the Syrian civil war, Netanyahu stated, but […]
The two-hour QNL public lecture will be held on February 1 at Georgetown University in Education City. INSIGHT: Ahmed Ragab will explain the historicity of the relationship of science and Islam. By Umer Nangiana As part of its public lecture series intended to create a bridge between scholars of science […]
Algerian pilgrim Ahmed Al-Qairawani, right. YUSUF MOHAMMED Published — Monday 25 January 2016 MADINAH: Performing tawaf (circumambulation) around the Kaaba was “a dream come true” for Algerian pilgrim Ahmed Al-Qairawani, who is in the Kingdom for the first time. “It cannot be described in words. I cried once I entered […]
Jan 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – JAWAD ANANI Amman has changed so much since my childhood, about 60 years ago. How happy my siblings and I were when the snowflakes fell down like a gymnast’s ribbon, dancing and twisting their way to their destination. We would huddle, cramming our cheeks […]
By Jordan Times – Jan 25,2016 – AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Monday urged the creation of a climate that is conducive to breathing life into the moribund […]
By THE EDITORIAL BOARD JAN. 22, 2016 Given the brittle relations between the Obama administration and Israel, even truth-telling can ignite a firestorm. That happened this week when Daniel Shapiro, Washington’s ambassador in Tel Aviv, delivered a speech that drew unfair rebukes from Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his right-wing […]
In meeting with Iraqi FM; Saudi’s Unwise, Prompt and Provocative Decisions Escalate Tensions: Rouhani January 7, 2016 – 2:02 PM News Code : 729255 Source : President Strengthening national unity, preserving territorial integrity, and development and prosperity of Iraq as a friend and neighbour country is important to Iran, said […]
A Saudi man divorced his wife after he found her crying over the exit of a contestant in a reality show Published: 09:53 January 24, 2016 By Habib Toumi, Bureau Chief Manama: A Saudi man divorced his wife of one month after he found her crying over the exit of […]
Jan 22,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI The difference between the sensible and superficial approaches to tackling the scourge of terrorism and other forms of violent extremism by groups such as Daesh was as clear as possible last week, in two efforts by the US government and the […]