The escalating rivalries and animosities between Iran and Saudi Arabia have nothing to do with the Sunni-Shia divide. Visitors relax on the grounds of the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar [Getty] by Hamid Dabashi @HamidDabashi Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature […]
Credits: National Geographic Author Becky Harlan Photographer Caleb Cain Marcus began his 1,500-mile pilgrimage along the the Ganges River amid the snow-capped peaks of Gangotri, India, a Hindu pilgrim town […]
aga khan award for architecture announces 2016 shortlist (above) royal academy for nature conservation, um al-yanabea (architect: khammash architects) image © AKTC / cemal emden the 19 […]
May 15, 2016 TEHRAN — Three Iranian projects were shortlisted with 16 other works from around the world for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture worth $1 million. The projects are the Manouchehri House in the central Iranian city of Kashan, the Tabiat Pedestrian Bridge and the 40 Knots […]
Nadeem Hanif May 15, 2016 DUBAI // Integrating Arabic and Islamic Studies into the wider curriculum will be the focus of a new school that will open this summer. The Next Generation School will open its doors to children for the next academic year and promises to develop both […]
By AFP – May 14,2016 -JORDAN TIMES Arab Israelis and other supporters wave Palestinian flags as they march during a protest to mark the right of return for refugees who fled their homes during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, at a village near Rahat in southern Israel, on Thursday. The […]
May 14,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Today marks the 68th year of Nakbeh, or Palestinian catastrophe. In 1948, Israel was created on Palestinian land, starting decades of Palestinian suffering, sacrifice, dispossession and displacement. Palestinians, both Muslim and Christian, who were a majority in their homeland before the start of the […]
May 14,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – Mahmoud N. Zidan On May 11 and 12, many Israelis marked the 68th anniversary of their so-called Independence Day, Yom Ha’atzmaut, according to the Hebrew calendar. That day laid the groundwork for implementing the myth of a greater — only in size — Israel, a […]
Source: BBC A journalist in India is facing charges over a report he wrote saying Muslims were banned from being yoga teachers under government policy. Pushp Sharma’s report appeared in […]
Source: Quartz China is building a Muslim theme park to promote its state-sanctioned version of Islam Since 1958, Yinchuan, a city 600 miles west of Beijing, has been the capital […]
Source: Independent A Chinese province with a large Muslim population has banned religion in nursery schools after a video of a little girl reciting the Quran was posted online. The […]
AGENCIES | Published — Saturday 14 May 2016 This undated handout image released on Friday, May 13, 2016, by Hezbollah Media Department, shows slain top military commander Mustafa Badreddine smiling during a meeting. (AP) BEIRUT: Top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed, the Lebanese group said on Friday, […]
Mariam Anwer | Published — Friday 13 May 2016 ALLAH Almighty has made human beings weak; they need to be guided and are prone to making mistakes and committing sins. Some do so out of ignorance of the laws set by Allah while; yet there are some, who even though […]
ARAB NEWS | Published — Saturday 14 May 2016 EASE OF PRAYER: The mataf around the Kaaba is now completely free of the temporary bridge, providing more space for worshippers to perform tawaf (circumambulate around the House of God) and say their prayers. (SPA) MAKKAH: The temporary mataf has […]
Source: The New York Times By MOHAMMED HANIF Mohammed Hanif is the author of the novels “A Case of Exploding Mangoes” and “Our Lady of Alice Bhatti,” and the librettist for the opera “Bhutto.” KARACHI, Pakistan — I once knew a building contractor who worked for the government of Pakistan. […]
WEATHER, AMMAN Today, May 13, 2016 By Reuters – May 12,2016 -JORDAN TIMES ANKARA — Iranian Muslims will miss the annual Hajj (the greater Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca) in September, media reported on Thursday, as Tehran and Riyadh traded blame over a failure to agree organisational details. The […]
May 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI We are into the season when you will be flooded with articles and analyses on the 100-year anniversary of the Sykes-Picot agreement that was signed on May 18, 1916. That agreement between Great Britain and France, with Russian acquiescence, defined how […]
May 12,2016 -JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh This time around, presidential candidates from both parties in the US seem to attach as much importance to foreign policy as to local. Both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees respectively, have demonstrated their discredited positions on the […]
Source: BBC BY Justin Rowlatt Can the sacred but toxic River Ganges be cleaned up? Justin Rowlatt travelled its length, from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, to see […]
Source: BBC Untouchability is worse than slavery, said Dr Bhimrao Ambedkar, one of India’s greatest statesmen and the undisputed leader of the country’s Dalits. Dalits (formerly known as untouchables) are […]