by SULTAN AL-TAMIMI | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Around 1,200 Saudi couples are expected to tie the knot on June 29 in a mass wedding ceremony in Jeddah. The event will be hosted and officiated by Makkah Gov. Prince Khaled Al-Faisal who also serves as an honorary chairman of the Jeddah […]
So what’s it going to be: Israeli chutzpah or Barack Obama’s audacity of hope? Predictably, Israel’s Netanyahu has lost no time in trashing President Barack Obama’s call for a “viable Palestine” along the 1967 borders. The Israeli PM has virtually rubbed Obama’s nose in, dismissing the borders that existed between […]
AMMAN (JT) – Her Majesty Queen Rania on Thursday attended the graduation of the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts’ (RSICA) second Masters of Fine Arts class. The RSICA board of directors, academic peers and friends and family of the 22 graduates as well as many of the school’s supporters […]
CIREBON, INDONESIA — Before he strapped on his suicide vest, walked into a crowded police station mosque and blew himself up last month, Muhammad Syarif was typical of the scores of angry young men who pass their days at fundamentalist mosques in this coastal Javanese city. Enlarge This Image The authorities […]
“It was not expected that Obama would criticize any of the U.S. allies, but he did so when he talked about Bahrain and called for a dialogue with the opposition while calling for the release of prisoners. Obama set a new approach toward the Middle East … opening a new […]
By SIRAJ WAHAB, MAHER ABBAS & GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH/DAMMAM: Saudis dismissed US President Barrack Obama’s much-anticipated “Arab Spring address” as meaningless, predictable drivel while Egyptians and other Arabs, to whom Obama offered some sops, also did not find anything new in the speech, which according to […]
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM (AFP) – An Israeli government committee on Thursday approved the construction of more than 1,500 settler homes in East Jerusalem, as Israel’s premier prepared to leave for talks in Washington, an NGO told AFP. A spokeswoman for the Ir Amim non-governmental organisation, which calls for Palestinians and Israelis […]
WASHINGTON (AFP) – President Barack Obama declared Thursday that the borders of Israel and a Palestinian state must be based on 1967 lines, likely setting up a new clash with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a long-awaited survey of the “Arab Spring” of revolts, Obama compared “shouts of human […]
New York Times May 18, 2011 Getting Smart on Aid By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF One cost of the uproar over Greg Mortenson, and the allegations that he fictionalized his school-building story in the best-selling book “Three Cups of Tea,” is likely to be cynicism about whether aid makes a difference. […]
In his first comprehensive response to revolts across the Arab world, President Barack Obama is doling out punishment and praise, targeting Syrian President Bashar Assad for attacking his people but also promising fresh U.S. aid to nations that support democracy. Obama is also trying to erase any doubt that the […]
Islam is the religion of a majority of the Cham (also called Khmer Islam) and Malay minorities in Cambodia. According to Po Dharma, there were 150,000 to 200,000 Muslims in Cambodia as late as 1975. Persecution under the Khmer Rouge eroded their numbers, however, and by the late 1980s they probably had […]
KULIM: Mini mar-ket operator Tan Jai Wei (pic), 46, is not your everyday Buddhist. He donates to mosques and suraus and believes this has made his business flourish. Tan, who is married and has two children, said he held a vegetable carnival to collect donations for the construction of a […]
by Tom Bowman A U.S. Army helicopter brigade is set to pull out of Baghdad in December, as part of an agreement with the Iraqi government to remove U.S. forces. So the armed helicopters flying over the Iraqi capital next year will have pilots and machine gunners from DynCorp International, […]
(CNSNews.com) – Two months after the Arab League won praise for its unprecedented call for international intervention in Libya, the bloc of 22 Arab states is reverting to its customary role of closing ranks, this time around the Assad regime in Syria. At a time of historic change and challenge […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) announced Wednesday that the Islamic Foundation, UK, is declared the winner of the IDB Prize in Islamic Economics for the year 2011 in recognition of its substantial contribution to the promotion of Islamic economics. The Prize will be awarded to the […]
By Mohammad Ghazal AMMAN – CEOs and senior executives from several private sector companies will mop floors and serve food to people at restaurants in Amman for a day as part of a campaign to start at the end of this month. The Mish 3aib (It is no shame) campaign […]
Two Christian communities in Baghdad show real hope for Iraq’s historic diversity – if politicians do their bit by Michael Nasir Ali The savage attack on Christians worshipping at Our Lady of Salvation Chaldean Catholic church in Baghdad drew the world’s attention to the violence against Christians and other minorities, […]
Resignations over crackdown leave lower house with just 22 members as more accusations of torture are levelled. Bahrian’s parliament has accepted the resignations of the last seven lawmakers of Al Wefaq, the country’s largest Shia opposition party. The resignations, approved on Tuesday, were submitted in February in protest over the […]
The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) expresses optimism about the positive effects of Islamic awakening in the Middle East on the fight against arrogant powers. The growing campaign against arrogant powers and dictatorship in the region is promising and would cause accomplishment among Muslims, said Saeed Jalili […]
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi denounced the military suppression of peaceful protestors in Bahrain, and stressed that the problem in Bahrain has no military solution. “There is no military solution to the Bahrain crisis, continued presence of foreign military forces in the country will further complicate the […]