By SAMAR FATANY, ARABNEWS Today we celebrate the National Day with greater hopes and aspirations about the future of our country. It is encouraging to note that a major initiative has been taken to lead the Kingdom to a better future. The initiative aims at countering religious extremism and eradicating […]
Rand Dalgamouni, JORDAN TIMES ZURICH – One young Jordanian is working to share her experience in interfaith tolerance and dialogue in the Kingdom with the rest of the world. Fresh graduate Ayah Alfawaris has represented Jordan at international summits, speaking as an ambassador for interfaith dialogue. In 2010, she was […]
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Diplomats struggled to find a formula on Thursday to avoid a clash over the Middle East as time ticked down on Palestinian plans to ask the United Nations to recognise their statehood, Reuters reported. President Mahmoud Abbas is pushing ahead with plans to submit the Palestinian […]
By YOUSUF MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS MADINAH: A defective education strategy was a major factor in the spread of the “takfir” ideology among young Muslim men and women, according to two scholars who spoke at a seminar on the phenomenon in Madinah on Thursday. On behalf of Custodian of the […]
By BARBARA FERGUSON, LIFE.STYLE@ARABNEWS.COM American Muslims are the country’s most ethnically and racially diverse faith group. In the Washington DC area, the Muslim population is relatively large and made up of many young, short-term globe-trotters, student and embassy types who are looking to gather and network. Outside Washington, in the […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: Reconciliation committees in the Kingdom will hold their first joint meeting in the holy city, the Makkah Reconciliation Committee announced Wednesday. It did not give a date for the meeting but said preparations for the event were currently under way. The reconciliation […]
By Hana Namrouqa, Jordan Times AMMAN – The Kingdom is forecast to witness the first showers of the wet season on Friday as a weak depression affects the country, according to the Jordan Meteorological Department (JMD). The depression, centred over Cyprus, will start affecting the country on Friday morning, bringing […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: A Saudi woman secondary school teacher in Jubail has won an international award for the innovative educational methods she presented during the annual Partners in Learning Middle East and Africa Forum held in Jordan recently. Noura Aldowaikh of the Secondary School in […]
By YOUSUF MUHAMMAD | ARAB NEWS MADINAH: Second Deputy Premier and Minister of Interior Prince Naif opened an international conference on “The Phenomenon of Takfir (branding opponents as infidels)…Reasons, Impact and Treatment” here on Tuesday. Earlier on arrival at the conference venue, Prince Naif was greeted by Prince Saud bin […]
by Brendan Work, PALESTINE NEWS NETWORK It begins like a joke and ends like a prayer: a rabbi walks into a Palestinian city and shouts, “Allahu akbar!” The rabbi is settler leader Menachem Froman, the city is Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, and in his Monday evening speech at […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: More than 300 Muslim leaders, scholars and academics are expected to participate in the annual Islamic conference organized by the Muslim World League (MWL) in Makkah during the Haj season this year to discuss major Muslim issues. “We are holding this conference […]
These days we have the charade of Palestine trying to become a member of the United Nations and Israel and the United States (especially) trying frantically to keep them out. The United States can do it easily with its ‘Veto power’ at the UN Security Council. Personally I do not […]
By WALAA HAWARI | ARAB NEWS Published: Sep 14, 2011 23:04 Updated: Sep 14, 2011 23:04 RIYADH: Saudi women have voiced reservations against recruiting domestic helpers from Morocco as suggested by the chairman of the Saudi recruitment committee. This is due to an old belief that Moroccan women use black […]
A majority of more than two-to-one people around the world back UN recognition of Palestine as an independent state, according to a poll in 19 countries. (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – A majority of more than two-to-one people around the world back UN recognition of Palestine as an independent state, […]
By Khetam Malkawi, JORDAN TIMES AMMAN – The number of tourists visiting the Kingdom from the Gulf states increased by 26 per cent in the first eight months of the year, compared to the same period in 2010, according to a Ministry of Tourism report. The report, which was released […]
SOURCE: JORDAN TIMES Despite His Majesty King Abdullah’s repeated assurances that the so-called Jordanian option is nonsensical and devoid of basis, there are some still determined to cling to this imaginary threat and exploit it to sow distrust and undermine the course of the Kingdom. There are still some who […]
AMMAN (Jordan Times) – His Majesty King Abdullah left on Saturday for the US to head the Jordanian delegation to the 66th session of the UN General Assembly, which will start in New York on September 19. King Abdullah will deliver an address before the UN General Assembly in which […]
By ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: An Asian maid who gave birth to an illegitimate child has begged authorities not to deport the boy with her, claiming it would put both their lives in jeopardy. The woman already served two years in a Makkah prison for the crime and is awaiting deportation, […]
By ARAB NEWS Published: Sep 2, 2010 00:34 Updated: Sep 2, 2010 00:34 MAKKAH: As hundreds of thousands of pilgrims throng the Grand Mosque in pursuit of blessings in the last 10 days of Ramadan, the growing phenomenon of irritating mobile phones is disturbing the worshippers. Ringtones from thousands of […]