Is the world failing the Afghan migrants challenge?
BY IRFAN RAJA JAN 04, 2022 – 10:45 PM GMT+3A refugee from Afghanistan is evacuated by bus to a shelter after camping for months beneath a motorway, in Paris, France, […]
A solution in Cyprus is far away
BY HACI MEHMET BOYRAZ JAN 07, 2022 – 12:05 AM GMT+3Illustration by Shutterstock. RECOMMENDED The Turkic world from a cultural perspective TURKIC-WORLD Recently, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced the appointment […]
Possibility of total war in today’s world
BY MUHITTIN ATAMAN JAN 12, 2022 – 12:05 AM GMT+3Illustration by Shutterstock. The world has been going through a transitory period, which has made the political and economic global system […]
COVID-19 pandemic is far from over
DR. THEODORE KARASIK January 11, 2022 arabnews.com Short Url https://arab.news/mbzuh We are now into the third year of the COVID-19 pandemic and many are saying “enough is enough,” sharpening the […]
Families reunited after Home Office drops demand for non-existent document
People from a Muslim minority group can now reunite with loved ones in the UK, after the Home Office accepts it wrongly rejected visa applications. THE JOINT COUNCIL FOR THE WELFARE OF IMMIGRANTS Ahmadis are persecuted in Pakistan, and authorities there do not accept the community as Muslim. This persecution […]
France may spread Islamophobia at rotating helm of EU: Experts
BY DILARA ASLAN ANKARA JAN 05, 2022 – 1:37 PM GMT+3In the aftermath of the assassination of teacher Samuel Paty, many people came to pay tribute in front of the Bois […]
Nuclear war is a genuine threat, so why have non-proliferation efforts stalled?
Experts believe the risk of nuclear war is closer than ever, with the infamous Doomsday Clock — a prediction on when mushroom clouds will rise over the world’s cities — […]
Note for practitioners: Home Office treatment of marriages in Pakistan by Ahmadi Muslims
On 6 October 2021 the Home Office in response to Letters before Claim for purposes of the Pre-action Protocol for Judicial Review clarified its position regarding marriages contracted in Pakistan […]
The winner gets the girl!
BY EKREM BUĞRA EKINCI JAN 10, 2022 – Fatima Hanım was famous for her beauty and intelligence. Sultans and princes would line up to marry her. However, she set only […]
Emma Watson post shows Israel’s anti-Semitism smears are beginning to break down
January 8, 2022 British actress Emma Watson in London on 17 October 2021 [JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP/Getty Images] Asa Winstanley AsaWinstanley January 8, 2022 Harry Potter actress Emma Watson was smeared on Monday by a […]
Will it ever end? Here is what happened with previous pandemics
BY GERMAN PRESS AGENCY – DPA LOS ANGELES JAN 05, 2022 – Vaccinations are stalled, hospitals keep getting COVID-19 patients and the WHO has announced a new variant of concern: omicron, […]
Turkey overhauls citizenship conditions in effort to support lira
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AGENCIES ISTANBUL JAN 07, 2022 – The Turkish government has made updates to its regulation that grants citizenship to foreigners in return for a certain amount of […]
Lord Ahmed: Former peer guilty of child sex offences
Source: BBC A former Labour peer has been found guilty of sexual offences against two children in the 1970s. Lord Ahmed of Rotherham was convicted of a serious sexual assault […]
Keeping tradition alive: Calligraphy in spotlight
BY İREM YAŞAR DEC 31, 2021 – DAILY SABAH Traditional arts reflect the cultural peculiarities and artistic senses of the society that they belong to. Passed from generation to generation, […]
UK hired firm to dissuade Afghan migrants before country fell to Taliban
The British government gave a firm over £700,000 ($947,200) over five years to tell Afghans not to flee the country. (File/AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/9kmng ARAB NEWS January 02, 2022 Home Office paid […]
The long decline: Mass migration batters Balkans
AFP , Sunday 2 Jan 2022 Abandoned shops and mostly empty streets offer few signs of life in North Macedonia’s Valandovo, where young people are fleeing in large numbers hoping to […]
2021 challenges for aid agencies
International Geneva It’s the last newsletter, and the last Inside Geneva podcast, of the year, and what better people to talk to than the humanitarian community?This content was published on […]
Surrealism alive and well in Cyprus
By Christos PanayiotidesJanuary 1, 2022 Throughout the life of the Republic, the main concern of most opposition members of the House has been to undermine the effectiveness of the government Our […]
Govt signals action for Turkey’s Alevi community amid obstacles
BY NURBANU KIZIL ISTANBUL DEC 31, 2021 – 8:49 AM GMT+3Alevis attend a prayer in a cemevi in Istanbul, Turkey, April 3, 2008. (Reuters File Photo) The ruling AK Party government […]
We are living in an age of disorder and discontent
SIR JOHN JENKINS December 31, 2021 Short Url https://arab.news/zcdsh In his remarkable book, “Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century,” the British historian Geoffrey Parker explores […]