By Rand Dalgamouni JORDAN TIMES AMMAN – The Arab Spring has generated more interest in Arab-American writers and their reflections on the changes taking place in the region, an author said on Tuesday. “The media in the [United] States has been reaching out to Arab-American writers,” Susan Muaddi Darraj told […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Maha Mostafa Akeel, managing editor of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Journal, celebrated the release of her first book, “Saudi Women in the Media,” at Jeddah’s Virgin Megastore in Roshana Mall on Tuesday. Maha’s friends, colleagues, relatives and prominent media personalities, including broadcaster and author […]
Editor’s note: William J. Bennett, a CNN contributor, is the author of “The Book of Man: Readings on the Path to Manhood.” Bennett is the Washington fellow of the Claremont Institute. He was U.S. secretary of education from 1985 to 1988 and was director of the Office of National Drug […]
by Susanne Schanda in Lucerne, swissinfo.ch A new book indicates that religion plays an important role in identity-building among adolescents with immigrant backgrounds in Switzerland. The authors of “Youth, Migration and Religion”, which was presented at a roundtable at Lucerne University, say public discourse on immigrants has changed in Switzerland […]
Source: New York Times Author: Johann Hari Book Review of THREE FAMINES: Starvation and Politics by Thomas Keneally Eradicating famine from the human condition is one of the most noble goals we can have. But to do this, we need to understand how famine happens — and in the past […]
Jakarta Globe: Lydia Tomkiw Historian Michael Laffan’s new book explores the influences of trade, travel and traditions on the spread of Islam in Indonesia. Historian, author and professor Michael Laffan studied Indonesian in high school in Australia before going on to study Arabic in college. Laffan wanted to connect the […]
The Golden Age of Learning in the Arab-speaking World Source: Qantara Arabic-speaking researchers have made major contributions to science. In his book The House of Wisdom, physicist Jim Al-Khalili examines the extent of their influence on the Western World. Anne Allmeling sends us this review Nowadays, when we talk about […]
By ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: Plans are under way to publish literally the largest book on the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), which is expected to weigh 1,600 kg and contain 420 pages, each page with dimensions of four by five meters. The book, according to Shams Arabic daily, is […]
By LISA KAAKI, LISA.KAAKI@ARABNEWS.COM During the 19th century, many women, particularly Englishwomen, were fascinated by the Arab world. Most of these female travelers, like Lucie Duff Gordon, Lady Ann Blunt, Gertrude Bell, Isabelle Eberhardt and Freya Stark, to name but a few, are known to us through their impassioned travelogues. […]
Saturday, August 20, 2011 By David Alton Source / Credit: Spero News “The Great Partnership” intelligently builds upon his previous exegesis. Here he counters what he calls “the unusually aggressive assault on religion” by “the new atheists”, sharing with Albert Einstein the belief that “Science without religion is lame; […]
John Henry Barrows, D.D., a familiar name for Ahmadi-Muslim missionaries and scholars, delivered a series of lectures. Describing these lectures, Dr. Barrows wrote in the preface of the book “The Christian Conquest of Asia” which comprises these lectures: “Since my return from the East and Far east in May, 1897, […]
“The word of wisdom is the lost property of a Muslim, so that wherever he finds it, he should take it, as he is the most entitled to it!” The Holy Prophet Muhammad … Source / Courtesy NY Times By THOMAS NAGEL Published: March 11, 2011 Readers of his Op-Ed column […]