By RIYADH: WALAA HAWARI, ARAB NEWS STAFF The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) ended a two-day international ministerial conference on refugees in the Muslim world in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan, yesterday. The conference focused on the refugee situation in the Muslim world. The […]
By RIYADH: ARAB NEW Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah has issued a royal decree relieving Sheikh Abdul Muhsin Al-Obaikan, adviser to the Royal Court, of his post. Sheikh Al-Obaikan, a prominent Islamic scholar, was controversial for some of his religious edicts (fatwas), including the one about breastfeeding […]
AFP | May 12,2012 | JORDAN TIMES ERBIL, Iraq — The government of Iraq’s Kurdish region fired back on Saturday over allegations by Iranian diplomats and officials that Kurdistan was playing host to Israeli intelligence. Kurdish authorities described the claims, made in previous weeks, as “untrue”, after Iran’s consul in […]
Philippine News Manila,(AFP) – China told its citizens Thursday they were not safe in the Philippines and its state media warned of war, as a month-long row over rival claims in the South China Sea threatened to spill out of control. Chinese travel agencies announced they had suspended tours to the Philippines, under […]
Express Tribune: Pak Army and Pak nationalism: by Khlaid Ahmad Pakistani nationalism, like all nationalisms, is based on what Ibn Khaldun called asabiya or the ‘group feeling’ that people living inside a state must […]
Asianews: by Mathias Hariyadi It’s called Banser and is a branch of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), a movement established in 1926 which aims to protect all minorities in the country. Recently, they foiled an attack by Islamic fundamentalists against a Canadian writer. According to members of NU “Muslims and Christians […]
Ynetnews: The Coliseum, where thousands upon thousands of “Judaeis” have been massacred by the Roman emperors, became for one night an arena for alliance between Christians and Jews against “odium fidei,” or religious hatred. Last Wednesday in Rome, Jewish leaders for the first time rallied alongside Christians in a candlelit […]
The Jakarta Post: Amika Wardana, Colchester, UK In a show of force, members of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI) broke up a book launch and discussion featuring Canadian Muslim feminist Irshad Manji at the Salihara Cultural Center in Jakarta on May 5. It was said that the FPI accused Manji […]
Part – A Ahmadiyya Muslim Community was established in 1925 in Palestine. This area later became part of what is now Israel in 1948. Ahmadiyya Muslim Community ……. settled in Kababir from […]
Knowingly and unknowingly people have said a many thing about Islam which are not based on the reality. I have read Quran in English, Hindi, Marathi and Urdu. I have talked to many individuals over this and tried to understand it. After reading the entire Quran and studying the life […]
Russian TV: China has refuted claims that troops in the country’s south are preparing for war over a territorial dispute with the Philippines. However growing warmongering rhetoric in the Chinese […]
The Electronic Intifada: An estimated 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners are on an open-ended hunger strike that began on 17 April, Palestinian Prisoners’ Day. The strike is a direct challenge to Israel’s regime of arrest and detention to try to break the Palestinian struggle for liberation. Prisoners are specifically calling for […]
Friday prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem’s Old City are held in solidarity with the prisoners on hunger strike during the Friday prayers, sermons about the plight of the […]
By KHALID ALTOWELLI, LIFE.STYLE@ARABNEWS.COM Published: May 3, 2012 21:20 Updated: May 4, 2012 13:35 Ninety-five-year-old Takashi Hayashi of Japan can’t remember when the Middle East and all things Arab didn’t […]
A meeting with the vice Governor of Ningxia Mr. Li Rui (Masroor) was arranged on Sunday 22.4.2012 at 6pm. This meeting was also attended by the president of Ethnic Minority Commision of Ningxia, Ma Li (Muhammad Ali), and other local government officials. Watch the video in Chinese: http://video.nxtv.cn/player.php?id=55691
Washington Post: By Charles Kurthiamer: In May 1967, in brazen violation of previous truce agreements, Egypt ordered U.N. peacekeepers out of the Sinai, marched 120,000 troops to the Israeli […]
Source: Dawn Author: Laeeq Khan It is not the herd of sheep I am referring to as I write today. It is also not the extraordinary intelligent few amongst us that are the subject of my writing here. Instead the attention is drawn to the ordinary, simple and often gullible […]
By ABDUL RAHMAN AL-RASHID ARABNEWS Syrian political activist living in exile Michel Kilo believes that the available alternative after the downfall of President Bashar Assad is an internal war turning into a protracted regional one involving the two superpowers. This was what he wrote in his article in Asharq Al-Awsat, […]
by Taylor Luck | JORDAN TIMES RAMTHA — Jordanian authorities have opened a third holding facility for Syrian refugees amid an ongoing influx of Syrians carrying stories of kidnappings and […]
An open house at the school of Ali ibn Abi Talib in Sur Baher was held to commemorate the Nakba in support of the steadfastness of the prisoners on hunger […]