Afghanistan- Only Afghan-to-Afghan talks could bring peace: Iran
Date 2/2/2020 2:26:02 PM (MENAFN – Afghanistan Times) AT News KABUL: As the United States of American has been trying to broker a peace deal with the Taliban group […]
Forget two states, Trump’s plan prescribes apartheid
Baria Alamuddin February 02, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/64h3g Taking a random district in the West Bank and calling it Al-Quds is no more a magical method for conjuring up […]
King of Jordan receives EU foreign affairs chief, reaffirms Jordan’s position on Palestine
His Majesty voices appreciation for EU’s support to Jordan By JT – Feb 03,2020 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Sunday received European Union High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy and European Commission Vice President Josep Borrell to discuss advancing Jordan’s partnership with the […]
Citing Trump plan, Israel defence chief backs extending sovereignty to West Bank settlements
Jan 29, 2020 – 21:30 By Stephen Farrell and Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israel’s hawkish defence minister called on Wednesday for Israel to establish sovereignty over nearly a third […]
Palestinians face uphill battle against Trump’s Middle East plan
Jan 31, 2020 – swissinfo.ch By Rami Ayyub JERUSALEM (Reuters) – When Palestinian leaders learned that the release of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Middle East plan was imminent, they swiftly […]
Coronavirus-related xenophobia is spreading – and I’m feeling the effects in the UK
A number of countries have seen overt instances of racist stereotypes – such instances are something we all need to avoid Sophie Lau Sunday 2 February 2020 THE INDEPENDENT I’ve […]
‘Islamic Empires’ Review: Revisiting a Glorious Past
Dow Jones, a News Corp company By Tunku Varadarajan Jan. 31, 2020 Justin Marozzi is a British journalist and popular historian who frequented such places as Egypt and […]
Coins of Islam
Arab News Sunday . February 02, 2020 One of the world’s most impressive collections of Arab and Islamic coinage ever assembled, the ‘Coins of Islam: History Revealed’ exhibition, curated by […]
Dispute at al-Azhar conference reflects deep divisions over Islamic renewal
Source: Arab Weekly By Amr Emam, who is a Cairo-based journalist. He has contributed to the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle and the UN news site IRIN. Cairo University […]
Saudi Arabia blocks Iran from Islamic grouping’s meeting – Tehran
Feb 2, 2020 – swissinfo.ch DUBAI (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has barred an Iranian delegation from an Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Jeddah on Monday where U.S. President […]
Arab League rejects so-called peace plan for Mideast
Pan-Arab bloc rules out US president’s so-called ‘Deal of the Century’ from consideration Gulsen Topcu | 01.02.2020 CAIRO The Arab League on Saturday announced that it rejected U.S. President Donald […]
King of Jordan confirms ‘firm’ stance on Palestine cause
Jordanian King Abdullah II confirmed on Friday his country’s “firm” position on the Palestinian cause, as well as its support for the Palestinian people, Jordanian and official Palestinian media reported. […]
The Erasure of Palestinians From Trump’s Mideast “Peace Plan” Has a Hundred-Year History
Rashid Khalidi February 1 2020, 1:00 p.m. Editor’s Note: This excerpt from Columbia University historian Rashid Khalidi’s newly released book, “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler […]
Secret Israeli Document Reveals Plan to Keep Arabs Off Their Lands
A document unsealed after 60 years reveals the Israeli government’s secret intentions behind the imposition of a military government on the country’s Arab citizens in 1948: not to enhance security […]
Natural Science : The Vast Influence of Ibn Sina, Pioneer of Medicine
In the 11th century CE, science was rapidly advancing in the Islamic world. The scholar Ibn Sina (Avicenna) synthesized its medical wisdom. By: Liz Tracey January 29, 2020 One thousand years ago, medicine not only looked different from what it is now, it also varied geographically. While many of […]
Turkey’s Erdogan criticises Arab silence over U.S. Middle East plan
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Friday criticised Saudi Arabia and other Gulf Arab nations for not speaking out against the U.S. Middle East plan which he said […]
The painful truth for Saudi Arabia: it needs the Iranian regime to survive
Kim Ghattas THE GUARDIAN For all its fiery rhetoric, Riyadh actually benefits from a standoff between Iran and the US Wed 29 Jan 2020 In a video animation released […]
Imran Khan — the dying pangs of a dream
The Express Tribune > Opinion By Inam Ul Haque Published: January 30, 2020 It was the 2018 Election and we did what we had never done before…vote. Many like […]
How Israel teaches its children to hate
Much like white South Africans, Jewish Israelis will never voluntarily give up their privileged position as settlers July 26, 2019 Dissident Israeli scholar Nurit Peled-Elhanan’s important academic study, “Palestine in […]
As prominent Israelis dedicated to peace, we oppose Trump’s apartheid plan
As Israelis dedicated to a peaceful future for our country and for our Palestinian neighbours, we state our principled opposition to the Trump administration’s plan for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This […]