Courtesy New York Times: She is 16, the daughter of a firefighter and a nurse, a self-proclaimed nerd who loves Harry Potter and Facebook. But Jessica Ahlquistis also an outspoken atheist who has incensed this […]
Courtesy Dawn News: ………When it comes to Ahmadi students, the state and society tolerates deliberate violations of their fundamental human rights. It was only in September 2011 when two schools in Dharinwala […]
courtesy: Blitz Why are Jews so powerful and Muslims so powerless? by Dr. Farrukh Saleem January 8, 2010 There are only 14 million Jews in the world; seven million in the Americas, five million in Asia, two million in Europe and 100,000 in Africa. For every single Jew in the […]
Courtesy: NY Times January 24, 2012 Average Is Over By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN In an essay, entitled “Making It in America,” in the latest issue of The Atlantic, the author Adam Davidson relates a joke from cotton country about just how much a modern textile mill has been automated: […]
Are you a maximiser or a satisficer? There are two types of decision-makers. Satisficers (yes, “satisfiers” is a word) make a decision once their criteria are met; when they find the hotel or the pasta sauce that has the qualities they want, they’re satisfied. Maximizers want to make the best […]
by Mohammad Ghazal | Jan 25,2012 JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday attended a ceremony to announce the launch of two waqfs for integral chairs to […]
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Source: Bloomberg Businessweek Jan. 24 (Bloomberg) — Google Inc., which is opposing censorship around the world, is funding discussions about dissent as celebrities including Oprah Winfrey and MTV founder Tom Freston attend Asia’s largest literary festival. The five-day DSC Jaipur Literature Festival, in the Indian city known for its […]
IN an article ‘Neutrinos and Angels’ he wrote for a national daily, Prof Pervez Hoodbhoy, one of Pakistan’s leading scientists, quotes the late Carl Sagan, America’s well-known astronomer, astrophysicist, and science communicator. Sagan told Bible Belt Americans: “Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during […]
Source: The New York Times NEW DELHI — At one of the better colleges in India’s capital, there is just one large room for 140 faculty members to sit and have a cup of tea or grade papers. “If even half show up, there aren’t enough chairs,” said Ghazala Amin, a […]
Black women are narrowing the gender wage gap, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. This chart shows black women earning 94% of black men’s full-time weekly wages in 2010, higher than comparisons among Hispanics (91%), Asians (83%), and Whites (81%). Previously the gap between Hispanic men and women had been […]
By LAWRENCE DAVIDSON, ARABNEWS The announcement came from the mayor’s office of New York City (NYC) on Dec. 19, 2011 in the form of an 11-page declaration. It begins: “Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Cornell University President David J. Skorton and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology President Peretz Lavie today announced an […]
Children are “born believers” in God and do not simply acquire religious beliefs through indoctrination, according to an academic. By Martin Beckford, Religious Affairs Correspondent, http://www.telegraph.co.uk Dr Justin Barrett, a […]
Source: The Economic Times KOLLAM (Kerala): Nobel Laureate and architect of Bangladesh Grameen Bank Muhammad Yunus today stressed the need to discard the economic theory that business is all about profit-making and said all economic activitiesshould focus on solving the problems of society.Speaking at the inaugural session of the International […]
Source: The Local A group dedicated to maintaining the German language’s purity is upset that a dictionary maker’s “Youth Word of the Year” is derived from English. Does German deserve […]
It is the largest gift the National University of Singapore (NUS) has received from an international alumnus, but Indonesian tycoon Tahir is reluctant to talk about the $30 million he […]
Over at The Atlantic, Anu Partanen, a Finnish journalist based in New York City, has an interesting article that asks what exactly the US can learn from Finland’s unorthodox yet remarkably successful education system. Partanen, currently writing a book about what, more broadly, the US can learn from Scandinavia, points […]
By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS Nouf Al-Semari expresses herself through her paintings DAMMAM: A set of 35 beautiful and mysterious paintings by Nouf Al-Semari, who describes herself as an […]
A cinq mois de l’élection présidentielle, le ministre de l’Intérieur français poursuit son offensive contre l’immigration. La France accueille chaque année 200 000 étrangers en situation régulière et « c’est trop » estime Claude Guéant. Le locataire de la Place Beauvau s’est fixé comme objectif de diminuer l’immigration légale de 10%. Menacés d’expulsion […]
watch the video This 10 year old Ahmadi Muslim girl, Sitara Burooj Akbar, from Rabwah Pakistan has broken world record by passing GCSE (O’Level) Biology at such a young age. The same little girl also holds the honour of becoming youngest Pakistani girl ever to pass GCSE Chemistry. She received […]