Intercultural challenges: Room to Rest or Rest-Room?
While in Bangkok my brother-in-law from USA visited me. My wife was going into a cloth-store, owned by a Thai Sikh family. My brother in law asked the shop keeper: […]
Netanyahu’s real crimes
Nov 25,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby After years of investigation and months of delay, Israel’s Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit formally indicted Benjamin Netanyahu for crimes ranging from […]
The China cables Xinjiang ‘What has happened to me’: manga depicting Uighur torture hits 2.5m views
Japanese artist’s story of Xinjiang woman’s experience highlights plight of Muslim minority in China Justin McCurry in Tokyo Tue 26 Nov 2019 A manga depicting the plight of an […]
Jordan and Israel’s 25-year peace deal under more strain than ever
Unpopular but enduring treaty faces new test in form of Donald Trump’s plan for Middle EastJordan and Israel’s 25-year peace deal under more strain than ever Michael Safi in Amman […]
The call for a post-sectarian Middle East in Baghdad and Beirut
Zaid M. Belbagi November 25, 2019 Water, electricity and access to economic opportunities are not sectarian trophies to award, but basic human rights. What events in Baghdad and Beirut have […]
The liberal spirit captivating the Mideast’s revolutions
Abdulrahman Al-Rashed November 24, 2019 Reflecting on the three major events in the Middle East — Iran, Iraq and Lebanon — we realize that they are more than […]
Laying the ground for the new ‘peace process’
Nov 24,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The recent indications from the United States that it no longer considers Israeli settlements in the West Bank as illegal […]
‘No alternative to UNRWA’s efforts besides refugee return’
By JT – Nov 24,2019 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL AMMAN — Heads of delegations of Arab countries hosting Palestinian refugees on Sunday highlighted His Majesty King Abdullah’s continual defence of […]
The China cables Uighurs ‘Allow no escapes’: leak exposes reality of China’s vast prison camp network
Documents confirm largest mass incarceration of an ethnic-religious minority since second world war Uighur’s 10-year term reveals level of repression Secret memo on how to run camps Emma Graham-Harrison and […]
The man behind China’s detention of 1 million Muslims
After bloody race riots rocked China’s far west a decade ago, the ruling Communist Party turned to a rare figure in their ranks to restore order: a Han Chinese official […]
US concerned about status of minorities in Pakistan: Ambassador Samuel Brownback
“Pakistanis won’t let Ahmadi Muslims register as Muslims,” says US diplomat Source: financialexpress.com | By PTI | theweek.in “We are concerned about Pakistan because of the harshness of the persecution atmosphere and the number of people getting killed or the inability of the Ahmadi Muslims to function in the country […]
Rescue of all 60 children of the ‘caliphate’ urged as winter nears
Relatives and councils offer sanctuary to get children home before winter closes in Mark Townsend @townsendmark Sun 24 Nov 2019 A Syrian refugee child in October, after coming ashore at RAF base Akrotiri in Cyprus. Photograph: Jack Hill/The Times/PA Homes for all the 60 British children still stranded in north-east […]
Op-Ed: Kartarpur is more than symbolic
Source: Daily Times By Ikram Sehgal November 22, 2019 The opening of the Kartarpur Corridor providing access to Sikhs to visit the revered Sikh Guru’s final resting place is in […]
Plea filed against Pakistan Army chief for being Ahmadi Muslim
Epigraph: Allah forbids you not, respecting those who have not fought against you on account of your religion, and who have not driven you forth from your homes, that you […]
What Saudi Arabia’s Mohammed bin Salman could learn from Prince Andrew – and vice versa
The two princes in hot water have one thing in common: a history of terrible personal and political choices Patrick Cockburn @indyworld Prince Andrew and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia have both had a bad week. On the very same day that Prince Andrew was giving his […]
I witnessed my first real battles and saw my first corpses in Belfast. It prepared me for the Middle East – Robert Fisk
Source: Independent In an exclusive clip from This Is Not A Movie, a documentary film by Yung Chang about the foreign reporting of Robert Fisk, we see the genesis of […]
Iraq’s secret sex trade
A BBC Arabic investigation has exposed a secret world of sexual exploitation of children and young women by clerics in Iraq. The practice of temporary marriage, illegal under Iraqi law, […]
Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu indicted for bribery and fraud
Attorney general announces charges as crisis deepens for longest-serving leader Oliver Holmes in Jerusalem Thu 21 Nov 2019 Benjamin Netanyahu describes corruption indictment as ‘attempted coup’ – video Israel’s […]
UK Government rescues British orphans of Isil fighters from Syria in first repatriation mission
Josie Ensor, Middle East Correspondent Charles Hymas 21 November 2019 • British orphaned children of Islamic State fighters have been rescued from Syria, in the first evacuation by the […]
Reality Check: Syria war: Who benefits from its oil production?
By Reality Check team BBC News 21 November 2019 President Donald Trump says he expects the United States to benefit by millions of dollars per month from Syria’s oil […]