Robert Fisk in Abu Dhabi: the Emirates enigma – who’s really in charge? Tracing the evolution of Abu Dhabi’s rulers from desert introverts to global treasure-hunters – and explaining the complex blend of kinship and rivalry that governs their relationship with the more ostentatious Dubai and Qatar ROBERT FISK ABU […]
Robert Fisk in Abu Dhabi: the Emirates enigma – who’s really in charge? Tracing the evolution of Abu Dhabi’s rulers from desert introverts to global treasure-hunters – and explaining the complex blend of kinship and rivalry that governs their relationship with the more ostentatious Dubai and Qatar ROBERT FISK ABU […]
Haaretz.com: The uniform is the same uniform. It’s the uniform whose wearers blew up hundreds of homes and schools and clinics in Gaza last summer. It’s the uniform whose wearers periodically shoot teenagers and children throwing stones and peaceful demonstrators in the West Bank. It’s the uniform that every night […]
Haaretz.com: The uniform is the same uniform. It’s the uniform whose wearers blew up hundreds of homes and schools and clinics in Gaza last summer. It’s the uniform whose wearers periodically shoot teenagers and children throwing stones and peaceful demonstrators in the West Bank. It’s the uniform that every night […]
guardian: Jeb Bush, the potential Republican presidential candidate, said in an appearance in Washington on Thursday afternoon that the religion of Islam had been “hijacked” by “barbarians” – and that peaceful practitioners of the religion should not be offended by his saying so. Bush made the comments at a conservative conference […]
guardian: Jeb Bush, the potential Republican presidential candidate, said in an appearance in Washington on Thursday afternoon that the religion of Islam had been “hijacked” by “barbarians” – and that peaceful practitioners of the religion should not be offended by his saying so. Bush made the comments at a conservative conference […]
Source: Nature Why I Teach Evolution to Muslim Students By Rana Dajani, who is associate professor of molecular biology at Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan, and a visiting scholar at the Faraday Institute, University of Cambridge, UK. 22 April 2015 Certain problematic attitudes towards science have been imported into Muslim societies as […]
MAKKAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Saturday 25 April 2015 Last update 26 April 2015 2:14 pm The expansion of the mataf, or circumambulation area around the Kaaba, will be ready […]
Reuters / Jordan Times / Apr.29, 2015 A file picture taken on June 18, 2004 shows Saudi Arabia’s Adel Al Jubeir, foreign affairs adviser to the Saudi Crown Prince, addressing a press conference at the Saudi Embassy in Washington, DC (AFP photo) RIYADH — Saudi Arabia’s new foreign minister, a […]
Al Jazeera Marwan Bishara © Provided by Al Jazeera Muslims have a long memory and deep distrust of Western motives when it comes to provoking war or invoking Islam. Not a day passes without certain pundits sharing their newfound “insights” about Islam; “Islam at war”, “Islam’s war within”, or “Islam’s […]
Al Jazeera Marwan Bishara © Provided by Al Jazeera Muslims have a long memory and deep distrust of Western motives when it comes to provoking war or invoking Islam. Not a day passes without certain pundits sharing their newfound “insights” about Islam; “Islam at war”, “Islam’s war within”, or “Islam’s […]
Who, What, Why: Who are the Yazidis? Who, What, WhyThe Magazine answers the questions behind the news 8 August 2014 SOURCE: bbc.com Share Among the many victims of the advance of The Islamic State (IS) in the Middle East are a group of up to 50,000 Yazidis, who are trapped […]
Source: Voice of America At a youthful 1,400 years, Islam is the youngest of the world’s major religions — and it’s on track to be the largest sometime this century. […]
Rami G. Khouri| The Daily Star What happens when chronic violence and brutal aggression go unchecked for decades on end? We see an example of this in the release this week of the findings of a United Nations internal investigation of events during last summer’s war in Gaza. The report […]
Robert Fisk in Abu Dhabi: The acceptable face of the Emirates While Dubai is a byword for excess, vulgarity and human rights abuses, the UAE’s capital affects a higher calling. So, alongside the Emirates Palace Hotel (1,022 crystal chandeliers), the Grand Mosque (capacity: 40,000) and four million foreign workers, there […]
First Islamic State Birth Certificate: Guns and Grenade A newborn next to an Islamic State-issued ID with a gun and hand grenade by the infant’s head. Tue, April 28, 2015 This picture, dubbed the first Islamic State birth certificate, has been circulated on Twitter and is reported to be authentic. […]
By: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association – AMYA
The Daily Star The pace of military developments in Syria has picked up noticeably in recent weeks; nearly all of the news has been bad for supporters of President Bashar Assad. Some have begun speaking of the “beginning of the end” of the regime, but its true strongholds – from […]
In the northern Iraqi city of Tal Afar and ISIS stronghold west of Mosul, several hundred Ezidis are being held captive since August last year. After dozens of women, children and in some cases men managed to escape from Tal Afar following an intensification of armed clashes with Peshmerga and HPS forces […]
PNN Published on Monday, 20 October 2014 11:00 Days of Palestine Day of Palestine reported that Israeli occupation signed on Sunday a deal with Egypt to supply natural gas worth $500-700 every year for next seven years. A deal of understanding with a company representing nongovernmental consumers in Egypt, under […]