Manto Is Not Only Worth Watching, It Is Also Worth Remembering
Source: Center for Pluralism Kudos to Dr. Shah Alam Khan for such a beautiful review of the film. It one of the best literary pieces on films I have read […]
A deadly storm is coming in Syria
Source: CNN In a Salisbury restaurant — not far from the where the nerve agent Novichok had been used by what Britain suspects were Russian operatives — I had dinner where a man I at first took to be a bouncer turned out to be a magician. Several times during […]
Dr Abdus Salam’s biopic is a happy film… if you don’t have a conscience
Source: Dawn It wasn’t planned to be this way, but the coincidence is almost too perfect: the biopic Salam – The First ****** Nobel Prize Winner played at the DC South Asian Film Festival (DCSAFF) on the day that the newly-elected government of Pakistan asked distinguished economist Atif Mian to […]
Compassion is at the core of every religion, but we don’t hear about it: Karen Armstrong
Source: Dawn Compassion requires you to dethrone yourself from the centre of your world and put others in your place. This was the point that eminent historian and author Karen Armstrong focused on and kept coming back to in her lecture titled ‘The need for compassion in a fractured world’ […]
The U.S.’ grand security strategy for Middle East in crisis
MOJTABA BARGHANDAN A cleric and a woman walk past an anti-U.S. mural painted on the wall of the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran. U.S. foreign policy and a wider anti-Middle […]
As US sanctions near, Europe fails to protect Iran deal
By Reuters – Sep 25,2018 – JORDAN TIMES UNITED NATIONS/BRUSSELS — At a meeting in Washington after Donald Trump pulled out of the Iran nuclear deal in May, a senior […]
Syrian army transfers hundreds of Daesh terrorists to Idlib — monitor
Militants were ferried overnight from Deir Ezzor By AFP – Sep 25,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Syrians wave flags during a demonstration in the rebel-held northern Syrian city of Idlib on […]
‘Preventing Palestine’: A must read history of failed peacemaking
Sep 24,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – JAMES J. ZOGBY Seth Anziska’s “Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo” is a deeply insightful and profoundly disturbing book that […]
World leaders are sidelining an extremely important issue at the UN General Assembly, and it affects the lives of millions
https://players.brightcove.net/624246174001/BJXA5Px6f_default/index.html?videoId=5838203230001&customParams=videoID%3A5838203230001%3BarticleId%3A8552281%3Bgs_channels%3ANONE%3Bplayertype%3Aautoplay%3Btopictags%3Aungeneral_assembly%2Cinternallydisplaced_people%2Ctyphoonmangkhut&customTargeting=%2F71347885%2F_main_independent%2Fin_voices%2Fin_voices_article&playsinline=true In 2005, my stepfather in Zambia, David Busiku Mainza contributed to a pamphlet on the Tonga people, some 57,000 of whom were resettled in 1957 and 1958 from the Zambezi […]
America’s Jews are watching Israel in horror
Source: Washington Post By Dana Milbank My rabbi, Danny Zemel, comes from Zionist royalty: His grandfather, Rabbi Solomon Goldman, led the Zionist Organization of America in the late 1930s, and […]
Harmful innovations in religion
Friday Sermon: Harmful innovations in religion October 29th, 2010 Hudhur gave an exposition on harmful innovations in religion in his Friday Sermon today. He began by reciting the following Quranic […]
Sufism: ‘a natural antidote to fanaticism’
Source: The Guardian By Jason Webster Jason Webster on why the republication of Idries Shah book about Sufism – whose enthusiasts have included Winston Churchill, Ted Hughes and Doris Lessing – […]
Malaysia cannot accept same-sex marriage, says Mahathir
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 21, 2018 FILE PHOTO: Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad speaks during an interview with Reuters in Putrajaya, Malaysia June 19, 2018. […]
Bali to bring in new rules for visiting temples after decline in ‘quality of tourists’
Source: The Guardian BY Hannah Ellis-Petersen South-east Asia correspondent Authorities in Bali have vowed to stop westerners in bikinis posing in front of sacred temples as they lament a decline in the “quality of […]
Trump lawyer Giuliani says Iran’s government will be overthrown
Reuters International THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2018 Rudolph Giuliani, former Mayor of New York City, delivers a speech during the 2018 Iran Uprising Summit in […]
CHILD MARRIAGES: When children forced to marry stay married
By Katy Romy THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON SEPTEMBER 20, 2018 This 16-year-old married in 2017 in a refugee camp for Rohingya in Bangladesh. Her parents said they […]
#SWISSHISTORYPICS: Annemarie Schwarzenbach: Winter’s journey to the Near East
By Catherine Waibel Village woman, Syria, 1933 Street scene, Aleppo/Syria, 1933 Mosque, Persia, 1934 Children, Varamin/Persia, 1934 Columns of the Apadana palace, Persepolis/Persia, 1934 Children, Istanbul/Turkey, 1933 Shoeshine boy, […]
Abbas never said ‘no’ to my plan says Israel’s former PM Olmert
By AFP – Sep 23,2018 – JORDAN TIMES French President Emmanuel Macron (centre right) welcomes Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas prior to their meeting at the Elysee Palace in Paris, on […]
Where is Daesh leader Baghdadi?
Daesh leader Baghdadi, world’s ‘most wanted’, sought in Syria offensive By AFP – Sep 22,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Leader of the Daesh terrorist group, Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi, addressing Muslim […]
Jordan to host 2019 WEF meeting on Mideast and Africa
His Majesty meets Schwab, Jewish organisations in New York JORDAN TIMES – His Majesty King Abdullah meets with World Economic forum’s founder and Executive Chairman Klaus Schwab in New […]