Waves of war? China-Filipino sea row boiling over
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 […]
In photos: widespread solidarity with hunger striking Palestinian prisoners
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 […]
Christians & Muslims hold prayer in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners
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 […]
An Arabian knight: A Japanese scholar’s fascination with the Middle East forged enduring Saudi-Japanese relations
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 […]
Shareef Odeh, the Amir of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Israel, meeting Chinese Officials
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
Echoes of ‘67: Israel unites: Shadows of another War, but bigger this time
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 […]
Thou shalt not follow
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 […]
Kilo’s options: War or Assad
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, […]
Jordan opens new Syrian refugee holding facility amid emerging humanitarian crisis
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 […]
School open house to support Palestinian prisoners – Jerusalem
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 […]
Medical professionals protest in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners
Doctors, nurses and hospital staff of the charity Almqasd organize a strike action in solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike in Israeli jails. See more pictures
Palestinian airline resumes flights
(AFP) / 10 May 2012 Khaleej Times The Palestinian national carrier, grounded since 2005, has resumed operations with flights between Egypt’s El-Arish and Amman, its director general told AFP on Thursday. “We started yesterday from Amman to El-Arish and from El-Arish to Amman,” Palestinian Airlines director general Zeyad Albad said. […]
Prepare for the long haul in Syria
By Michael Young, The Daily Star, Lebanon One thing that the Lebanese can usually do with some precision is predict stalemate. Their own conflict between 1975 and 1990 was one long, debilitating lesson in destructive deadlock. So when those in Beirut look toward Syria today and shake their heads, that’s […]
Red Cross stops work in Pakistani cities
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: The Red Cross says it has suspended operations in two of Pakistan’s largest cities following the killing of a British nurse working for the group in the country. […]
More Saudi universities boarding e-learning bandwagon
By JEDDAH: AFIFA JABEEN QURAISHI ARABNEWS IS online education the next big thing or will it remain a distant entity awaiting its large-scale acceptance in the higher education landscape of Saudi Arabia? The image of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah launching the first phase of the university […]
Dalai Lama to receive $1.8m prize for encouraging scientific research and harmony among religions.
The Nation: LONDON – The Dalai Lama will receive the 2012 Templeton Prize, one of the world’s biggest monetary awards, in a ceremony at Saint Paul’s Cathedral in London on […]
25% of Chinese students plan to work abroad
More than 25 percent of junior high and primary school students born in Shanghai expect to work and live abroad after finishing school, a survey has found. By contrast, the figure for students who were born outside the municipality and now study in schools in Shanghai is 18 percent. The […]
To help world’s children reach fifth birthday, look to this Bangladesh program
To help world’s children reach fifth birthday, look to this Bangladesh program Christian Science Monitor An innovative development program inBangladesh is defying child mortality rates, ensuring children grow healthier and taller, by empowering women and educating families about nutrition. Global leaders should heed its successful model.
God doesn’t exist: Indonesian atheist faces 11 yrs in jail
Hindustan Times: When Alex Aan picked up a copy of Karen Armstrong’s Holy War from his local library in west Sumatra in 2005, he had little inkling of his own religious battle to come. But after posting “God doesn’t exist” on Facebook, the soft-spoken civil servant, 30, faces up to […]
Palestinians isolated and short of funds — Fayyad
By MICHAEL STOTT AND SAMIA NAKHOUL | REUTERS ARABBEWS RAMALLAH, West Bank: Prime Minister Salam Fayyad said on Tuesday the Palestinians may have “lost the argument” on the international stage for an independent state but cautioned that continued Israeli occupation was unsustainable. In an interview with Reuters, Fayyad struck a […]