by Robert Fisk, The Independent Mohammed Nour is the spokesperson for the Northern Storm Brigade, accused of kidnapping 11 Lebanese pilgrims in Syria “Hezbollah suspects Hamas has been teaching Sunni […]
Amusement park’s alleged anti-Arab racism Inquiry by teacher prompts Superland to admit it hosts Jewish and Arab groups on separate days The Times of Israel: Justice Minister Tzipi Livni has […]
The Independent Catholic News: A glimpse of a forgotten era. This historic film footage, made shortly after the invention of celluloid by the earliest filmmakers in history – the Lumiere […]
The tiny, honey-coloured Al-Shuwaibiya Mosque is the oldest in Aleppo and one of the few that remains undamaged. Unlike many, its low minaret is protected by surrounding buildings and still […]
Story Summary Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi has called on Sunni Muslims to join the rebels fighting the Syrian regime, as he lashed out at Shiite group Hezbollah for sending […]
Clinging to a dangerous oxymoron, Israel claims to be both a democracy and at the same time belong to “world Jewry.’ The consequences of this fallacy are severe. By Shlomo […]
Rod Such The Electronic Intifada 28 May 2013 130528-pretending-democracy.jpg Pretending Democracy: Israel, an Ethnocratic State is a collection of essays by Israeli, Palestinian and South African intellectuals dissecting the nature […]
Village after Shia village had hung photos of men who went to fight for Qusayr two weeks ago Loulou Awad’s blood still stained the concrete of her broken home, the latest Lebanese innocent to pay the price of Syria’s war. Her almost equally broken father Abdullah pressed the hands of […]
STORY SUMMARY The conflict in Syria and the uprisings in Bahrain and other countries represent one of the two important battles underway in the Arab world, whose outcomes will largely determine the future shape of Arab political systems. The second battle is not about who rules in a country, but […]
Source: Spiegel Why should the citizens of one of the richest countries in the world take to the streets? Fed up with the paternalizing, incompetent leadership of the ruling family, a citizen’s movement is waking in Kuwait, much to the fear of its neighbors in the Gulf. More:
STORY SUMMARY An international “peace” conference to tackle the crisis in Syria is taking shape for next month, but as the preparations for the event are ramping up, so is the level of pessimism. The conference has been preceded by the setting of a number of conditions, by both sides. […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Friday 31 May 2013 DUBAI: Bahrain has urged its citizens not to travel to Syria to fight alongside fighters ranged against government forces after a Bahraini youth was killed there in battle, local press reported yesterday. “Supporting the right of the Syrian people to self defense […]
REUTERS Friday 31 May 2013 BEIRUT: Syria’s opposition fighters said yesterday they should be granted half the seats in the opposition Syrian National Coalition, warning that without strong representation of […]
HARUN YAHYA ARABNEWS Friday 31 May 2013 Some people never consider the great blessings they enjoy throughout their lives. Yet starting the day in good health every morning, being able […]
By ANNE BARNARD THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said in a television interview to be broadcast on Thursday that Russia has delivered S-300 […]
By sending help to Syria’s warring factions, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are struggling to gain influence in the Middle East. The conflict between Sunnis and Shiites has become a proxy war over strategic regional goals. At the moment, several conflicts are being fought simultaneously in Syria. The civil war […]
The Jewish Express: A small, but increasingly vocal number of Muslims are rejecting radical hate speech and combating antisemitism in the Muslim world. In the recent Global Forum for Combating […]
by Barbara Surk AP BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s main Western-backed opposition group says it will not participate in U.S.-Russian sponsored peace talks while the regime is carrying out massacres in Syria. Thursday’s announcement came at the end of weeklong opposition talks in Istanbul to try and forge a united view […]
Report and Appeal to the International community to support a process of dialogue and reconciliation in Syria between its people and Syrian government and reject outside intervention and war. After […]
By Samir Salama, Associate EditorPublished: 19:10 May 27, 2013 Abu Dhabi: Islam and secularism have much in common as both cherish human rights and justice, a regional conference on the […]