New Egypt-based Islamic TV channel caters to fully veiled women Washington Post Conservative Islam and its most visible hallmark, the niqab, appear to be on the rise on Egypt’s cultural scene as well, and the launch of Maria TV is an attempt to cater to that growing segment of society. A decade ago, the […]
Top Sunni mufti and head of Sunni scholars in France Sheikh Sankoh Muhammadi has embraced Shia Islam after a visit to the holy city of Karbala in Iraq. It is […]
French president says Vel d’Hiv round-up of Jews to Nazi camps was a ‘crime committed in France by France’. The French president, François Hollande, admitted that the round-up and deportation […]
Guardian: Expectations were high when a Muslim woman from a North African background was made an instant star in France’s new Socialist cabinet in May. Not only was Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, 34, […]
Christine Lagarde and Nicolas Sarkozy were embroiled in a new corruption inquiry on Sunday over the awarding of Legion d’Honneur for political favours. The pair are already facing allegations that […]
AFP ARABNEWS Tuesday 10 July 2012 PARIS: Yasser Arafat’s widow is to file a lawsuit in France following allegations the Palestinian leader died at a Paris hospital in 2004 after […]
France’s soccer federation said it would not allow women to wear Muslim headscarves. Source: THE TELEGRAPH By Devorah Lauter, Paris The decision, announced on Friday night, was despite a ruling on Thursday that they could, by the FIFA umbrella organization which sets the rules of the game. The French Football […]
Credit: Spiegel-Germany. France’s new president, François Hollande, has put the German chancellor on the defensive with his growth agenda. Now Angela Merkel is planning to strike back. She is calling for structural reforms to save the euro with a six-point plan aimed at harmonizing austerity and growth in Europe once […]
RFI: In a crime which calls to mind the film “The Godfather”, a gunman penetrated a hospital bedroom in Bastia in Corsica on Monday and tried to kill restaurateur Olivier Sisti, who was lying in bed trying to recover after a previous attempt to kill him a week ago. Details: […]
Rfi: Possibly the most glamorous local railway carriages in the world started operating on Wednesday between Paris and Versailles. They may look like any old beat-up railway train on the outside but inside they are decorated with reproductions of interiors from the royal Palace of Versailles. More: http://www.english.rfi.fr/visiting-france/20120516-louis-xiv-railway-carriages-take-paris-versailles-line
Arwa Al-Rikabi ARAB NEWS “Islam and Muslims are incompatible with rationality”…Who do you think said this? It sounds like something Geert Wilders (leader of Party of Freedom-Netherlands) or Nick Griffin (chairman of British National Party) would say, but it is the French Orientalist Ernest Renan who declared this in the […]
Rfi: French President François Hollande met Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul on Friday morning. Earlier, on a surprise visit to Afghanistan, he told French soldiers that 2,000 of the 3,555 French troops there will be home by the end of the year. Details:
Mr Hollande told French troops that the “mission of fighting terrorism and chasing out the Taliban is close to being accomplished” and heralded a new era of civil […]
Rfi: By Tony Cross The war of Sarkozy’s succession has opened in France’s right-wing UMP party, following its defeat in presidential polls at the hands of Socialist François Hollande. As the party tries to fight a parliamentary election campaign, former prime minister François Fillon has declared that it needs a new leader […]
By RFI French President François Hollande said France had done “more than its duty” in Afghanistan, as officials said a calendar to pull out troops would be drawn up in the coming days. Speaking at the end of a two-day Nato summit in the US city of Chicago, the new French […]
BY: AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABBEWS WASHINGTON: France’s President Francois Hollande used his White House debut yesterday to restate his intention to get French combat troops home from Afghanistan this year […]
French president Mr.Francois Hollande along with his partner Valérie Trierweiler. She is a journalist. Ségolène Royal: ex wife of Mr. Francois Hollande, mother of his four children. She competed last (2008) presidential election of France against Sarkozy.
French president François Hollande and his partner Valérie Trierweiler are now France’s first family. So how will they differ from the Sarkozys? by Angela Chrisafis, The Guardian On a stage […]
Rfi. In a widely expected move, Francois Hollande has named his special campaign adviser Jean-Marc Ayrault to the post of prime minister in his first appointment as president since being sworn in Tuesday morning. who is Jean-Marc Ayrault?
France24. François Hollande, the Socialist Party candidate who won the presidential runoff on May 6, has been officially sworn in as France’s new president. FRANCE 24 covers his first day with a live blog. Reference: