Private money pours into Syrian conflict as rich donors pick sides
By Joby Warrick, Sunday, June 16, 2013 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Syrian tanks were closing in on the rebel-held town of Qusair last month when a Kuwaiti sheik named […]
UN welcomes warming of Kuwaiti-Iraqi ties
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon attends first joint meeting with Kuwaitis and Iraqis The Kuwait News Agency (KUNA), quoted Ambassador Mansour Ayyad Al Otaibi as saying that the Secretary-General had called […]
Kuwaiti woman jailed for ‘insulting’ emir tweets
Source: BBC A Kuwaiti court has sentenced a woman to 11 years in jail for insulting the emir and calling for regime change on social networking site Twitter. Huda al-Ajmi, a 37-year-old teacher, has been also convicted of misusing her mobile phone. She can appeal against the sentence. Kuwait has […]
600,000 workers “tricked and trapped” into forced labour in Mideast –– ILO (Hadith: “pay your workers before his/her sweat is dry)”)
by Hani Hazaimeh | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — A study prepared by the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which was revealed on Tuesday, showed that the highest rates of human trafficking were registered in the Middle East. The study, which was named “Tricked and Trapped: Human Trafficking in the Middle East”, […]
Islam spreads more rapidly when attacked
Source: ABNA.co Kuwait City (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – Kuwait City: Islam is a moderate religion and spreads the message of tolerance even when the religion is itself under attack by the enemies. These views were shared by the speakers of a conference on Islam in the capital city of Kuwait who also […]
Approval required for mixed marriages in Kuwait
Manama: Foreign women who married Kuwaiti men after January 2010 will need the approval of a special committee to be able to live in Kuwait. “The interior ministry has stopped stamping residence permits to the foreign wives of Kuwaiti nationals and whose marriage took place after January 1, 2010,” security […]
Kuwaiti women can now become judges
However, several women applicants said that they would always recall the day they handed in their papers as “a historic breakthrough.” “This is a beautiful day in my life,” an applicant who did not give her name, told local Arabic daily Al Qabas. “This is great because in the past […]
GEORGE H.W. BUSH IN INTENSIVE CARE: NY TIMES
Ex-President George H.W. Bush in intensive care From ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush is being treated in the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital after suffering “a series of setbacks,” including a stubborn fever, his spokesman said. In a brief email Wednesday, Jim McGrath, Bush’s […]
US military to keep ‘strong’ role in Mideast — Panetta
AFP | Dec 11, 2012 | 22:13 Updated: Dec 11, 2012 | 22:13 KUWAIT CITY — The US military will retain a “strong presence” in the Middle East despite a […]
The bumpy road to Arab constitutions
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY The assorted political crises in Egypt, Tunisia, Kuwait, Lebanon, Syria and other Arab states show very clearly why credible constitutions are such important documents. These two elements of orderly contestation and genuine citizenship are missing in most Arab countries, which is […]
Muslim world’s condition
Source: Dawn.com MYRIAD problems afflicting Muslims today are of our own making. The combined GDP of a billion plus Muslims living in some 56 sovereign Muslim states is less than that of Japan. Barring a few countries like Malaysia and Turkey, most Muslim states are underdeveloped. Pakistan has seven million […]
Why has Jordan been abandoned?
By Tariq Alhomayed Asharq Al-Awsat Do we realize the all-encompassing danger present in the Kingdom of Jordan, and the size of the conspiracy that has been hatched against it, from […]
GCC security agreement signed
GHAZANFAR ALI KHAN RIYADH: GCC interior ministers signed a security agreement yesterday, which will make them a unified force in the region. The pact aims at reinforcing security cooperation and coordination between the GCC member countries, said the bloc’s chief Abdullatif Al-Zayani. “The security pact will empower each GCC country […]
BE WARNED: In Saudi Arabia and Israel, Signals That Iran Has Retaliation in Works
The Iranians and their Hizbullah ally are sending warning signals about how they might fight a future war with the United States and Israel. The signals aren’t subtle—Tehran intends to retaliate for any attack on its nuclear facilities with blows against America’s allies in the region, hitting their most sensitive […]
Arab monarchies: Muslim Brotherhood ‘source of all problems in Islamic world’
The rulers of several major Arab nations have accused the Muslim Brotherhood of ambitions to seize power illegitimately. Several governments branded the organization a major threat to stability as the party’s influence grows steadily. After the Muslim Brotherhood legally took power in Egypt’s elections, with Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi becoming […]
US, allies in Gulf naval exercise as Israel, Iran face off
Reuters | Sep 17, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES DUBAI — The United States and its allies have launched a major naval exercise in the Gulf that they say shows a global will to keep oil shipping lanes open as Israel and Iran trade threats of war. Publicly announced in July, […]
Kuwait school ordered to re-admit veiled student
Manama: An Indian school in Kuwait was told to re-admit a Pakistani student after it refused to admit her for wearing a veil. A source told local Arabic daily Al Rai that the girl’s father was shocked that the private school had rejected her admission because she started wearing a veil. […]
Muslim speaker takes a swing at Salafis, Theocracies and dicttatorship
Source: Campus Watch Speaking to an overflow crowd at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, noted Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan criticized extreme Islamists known as Salafis, saying that the Arab world needs to develop political systems that reject both theocracies and dictatorships. But he added that Arab countries should […]
Expat population ‘could threaten’ GCC security
ARAB NEWS Tuesday 11 September 2012 JEDDAH: More than 12.5 million workers in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are foreigners, accounting for 31 percent of the 40 million GCC […]
Kuwait- Islamic microfinance curbs poverty
(MENAFN – Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Islamic Microfinance is a viable means to curb poverty, a specialized report by Kuwait Finance House (KFH) said Wednesday Addressing poverty continues to be one of the greatest challenges faced by governments around the world today. In Islam, a person is considered poor if […]