ARABNEWS by Tanya Cariina Hsu who is a British political analyst specializing in US-Saudi foreign policy Sunday 4 November 2012 DURING a recent dinner conversation in London I was asked, as is predictably guaranteed, about Saudi Arabia, the abaya and hijab. “A mark of oppression and ignorance,” bemoaned a professor […]
ARAB NEWS Sunday 4 November 2012 AMMAN: Details emerged yesterday of plans to reshape Syria’s opposition into a representative government-in-exile, on the eve of key talks between regime opponents. The talks starting today in Doha come amid US criticism of the main exiled opposition group, the Syrian National Council (SNC), […]
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The Iranians and their Hizbullah ally are sending warning signals about how they might fight a future war with the United States and Israel. The signals aren’t subtle—Tehran intends to retaliate for any attack on its nuclear facilities with blows against America’s allies in the region, hitting their most sensitive […]
Ruth Pollard Middle East Correspondent THE terrified men lie huddled in a group on the dusty floor of an abandoned building as armed opposition fighters kick and stamp on their bodies. Amid the chaos, the prisoners protest their innocence, but their cries go unheeded. Their captors – apparently fighters from […]
by Ali Bluwi ARABNEWS Saturday 3 November 2012 I had the opportunity to read two reports on the relationship between the Muslim Brotherhood and Britain and their relationship with the Freemason movement. I also read a report on Rashin Ghanoshi and Khairat Al-Shater — two leading figures of the Muslim […]
MADINAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 3 November 2012 The number of illegal pilgrims squatting in the plaza of the Prophet’s Mosque is causing problems of nightmare proportions and is beyond control […]
BEIRUT: Syrian main exiled opposition group yesterday accused Washington of undermining the country’s revolution by seeking to overhaul how regime opponents are organized. Two days ahead of key opposition talks […]
by Muath Freij JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — With the slogan “Bread for everyone”, a young Jordanian has launched a campaign to help underprivileged families get the staple for free. Launched […]
LONDON: ARAB NEWS Friday 2 November 2012 Israel has for the first time admitted assassinating the deputy of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, Abu Jihad, in a raid on the movement’s […]
Call this a belated awakening. or more cynically, a case of plausible deniability, but the Obama Administration is breaking with the Syrian National Council which was a Muslim Brotherhood front […]
New plans for Saudi Arabia: Bulldozing historic holy sites Express Tribune: The current controversy of the potential Saudi demolition of Riyad-al-Jannah and the graves of Islamic caliphs Hazrat Abu Bakr (RA) and Hazrat Omar […]
An email has been forwarded a few times from respected Imam Zafar Anjum and other Muslim groups like Frisco Masjid and Irving Muslims. I am posting this at http://www.WorldMuslimCongress.com, http://www.Quraantoday.com […]
In an effort to bring stability amid the ongoing finger-pointing between the Syrian rebels and government over blame for disrupting a truce, UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is in Moscow […]
Credit: The Muslim Matters.Islamic Political Thought: Sacred and the Secular: by Sh. Abdullah Hasan A number of classical and contemporary scholars proposed divisions for the actions of the Prophet . Chief among them are […]
MAKKAH: Arab News Thursday 1 November 2012 A boy scout has won the praise of Muslims around the world for carrying an Algerian pilgrim to a Makkah pilgrim guidance center […]
Kinerette Rinat BenSimon remembers well the last time there was trouble on the northern border with Lebanon. (Source MSN News – http://arabia.msn.com/news/world/508946/praying-for-peace-preparing-for-war/) Her young daughter was terrified and refused to hide in her kindergarten’s bomb shelter unless her mother was there. Her three-year-old son was ecstatic that there were so […]
RAMALLAH: ARAB NEWS Wednesday 31 October 2012 Criminal investigators from France will exhume Yasser Arafat’s remains next month to try to find out how the Palestinian leader died, a French official said yesterday. The official said the team from France would arrive sometime between Nov. 24 and Nov. 26 in […]
JEDDAH: AFSHAN AZIZ & IRFAN MOHAMMED Wednesday 31 October 2012 As the Eid Al-Adha holidays draws to a close, many residents across the Kingdom look back on an uplifting and […]
By Christoph Sydow SPIEGEL.DE Officially, the European Union views Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories as illegal. But that hasn’t stopped the EU from doing booming trade with the outposts. […]