In Pictures: The protectors of a 7,000-year-old faith
(Image credit: Simon Urwin) By Simon Urwin 4th August 2023 Lalish is a tiny mountain village in Kurdistan with a population of just 25. It is to the Yazidis what Mecca […]
Lebanon can prosper if it emulates Switzerland’s political model
KHALED ABOU ZAHR August 03, 2023 As Switzerland celebrated its national day this week, Lebanon can learn from how this small country, with three official languages and bordered by three […]
Netanyahu unlikely to make concessions on normalization with Muslim world
DR. DANIA KOLEILAT KHATIB August 03, 2023 The US received an important wake-up call with the Saudi Arabia-Iran deal that was brokered by China. The significance of the March […]
Will Jeddah summit broker a peace plan acceptable to Russia, Ukraine and NATO
Aug 02,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / Michael Jansen This weekend’s meeting in Jeddah of officials from a wide range of countries aims at formulating a common approach to peacemaking between […]
Saudi foreign ministry launches electronic visa waiver for UK citizens
The ministry said on its social media that the step comes to facilitate procedures for those wishing to visit the Kingdom. (Shutterstock) RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry launched on Wednesday […]
Islamic Dream Interpretation. To urinate…
Seeing ‘piss’ in your dream.. Piss Urine generally symbolizes spending and wasting money. It could also mean illicit or inappropriate spending.• Urinating: The dreamer will spend money that will benefit […]
Kiswa lowered ahead of washing of Kaaba
Previous 1 / 4The kiswa was lowered on Tuesday. (SPA) 2 / 4The kiswa was lowered on Tuesday. (SPA) 3 / 4The kiswa was lowered on Tuesday. (SPA) 4 / 4 The kiswa was […]
The futile search for Palestinian reconciliation
OSAMA AL-SHARIF August 01, 2023 Since the biggest Palestinian rift in modern times took place in 2007, when Hamas fighters expelled the Palestinian Authority from Gaza and defeated Fatah loyalists […]
Palestinians a glaring omission from debate on Israeli democracy
CHRIS DOYLE July 31, 2023 A week ago, in defiance of mass protests, 64 members of the Israeli Knesset landed their first blow on the Israeli judiciary. This dramatic onslaught on the […]
For Arab Americans, blue is not blue
Jul 31,2023 – JORDAN TIMES / James J. Zogby News last week that the US and Israel were about to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) advancing Israel’s entry into […]
Thomas Friedman doth worry too much about Israel
Joseph Massad28 July 2023 12:04 BST | Last update: 2 days 16 hours agoIn an open letter to Joe Biden, the longtime New York Times columnist pleads with the US president to ‘save’ Israel […]
Middle East’s tricky relationship with its ‘demographic dividend’
EHTESHAM SHAHID July 30, 2023 In demographic analyses, data speaks louder than words. Such studies on the Middle East are often taken with a pinch of salt due to inadequate […]
Palestinians ‘have no right of return’ says Israel UN envoy
July 27, 2023 Ambassador of Israel Gilad Erdan speaks to the press ahead of the Security Council meeting on the situation in the Middle East at UN Headquarters. [Photo by […]
Turkiye rediscovers the value of good relations with Arab countries
YASAR YAKISJuly 29, 2023 After several ups and downs, Turkish-Arab relations have now been stabilized. Turkiye’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan recently paid a visit of gratitude to Saudi Arabia. He […]
Saudi Arabia condemns Israeli minister’s ‘storming’ of Al-Aqsa mosque
Thursday was Ben-Gvir’s third known visit to the Al-Aqsa mosque site since becoming a minister. ARAB NEWS July 27, 2023 RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Thursday condemned what it described as […]
Book burning must be banished from political discourse
YOSSI MEKELBERG July 26, 2023 Short Urlhttps://arab.news/9z3pzThere is something frighteningly true in the observation of the 19th-century German poet Heinrich Heine, which was prompted by a burning of the Qur’an […]
A major victory for Israel’s messianic expansionists
Jul 26,2023 – JORDAN TIMES Michael Jansen The Israeli Knesset’s adoption of a law curbing the authority of the country’s courts to check “unreasonable” policies of the executive and legislature […]
Ashura: How a movement changed course of history
By Soheila Zarfam July 25, 2023 – TEHRAN TIMES TEHRAN – For a tourist visiting Iran during the first ten days of the month of Muharram, these days might feel […]
In the shadow of Israeli occupation
BY NAJLA M. SHAHWAN JUL 25, 2023 – DAILY SABAH A child walks past rubble after an Israeli military raid, east of Tulkarm, in the occupied West Bank, Palestine, July […]
Yemen: The children of a forgotten war
bbc.com By Orla GuerinBBC News, Yemen If suffering had an address, it might be al-Rasheed Street, in Taiz, a Yemeni city ringed by mountains and rebel Houthi fighters. On this […]