Source: Reuters By John Davison KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) – The match should have been cause for young Iraqis to celebrate. Their national team beat Lebanon 1-0 in the first competitive […]
Source: The Sunday Times Sarit and Ben Nessi live in a pleasant suburb of Zikhron Ya’akov, one of the earliest Zionist settlements in Israel. It dates back to 1882, when […]
Source: thetruth.ng It is the dawn of the Islamic sacred month of Hajj and, as usual, hundreds of thousands of Muslims are already converging on Islam’s holiest city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj (pilgrimage) operations. Again, in the next few days, the pilgrims will join processions of […]
Source: The Washington Post By Louisa Loveluck and Louisa Loveluck Reporter in The Washington Post’s Beirut bureau, focusing on Syria. ZAKHU, Iraq — Hiyam never expected to love her daughter. The father was an […]
Jul 28,2019 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh While tensions in the region are reaching alarming levels, and the increasing pressure on Iran is having wider impacts, there is […]
Despite recent reforms, Saudi Arabia’s repressive guardianship laws have remained intact. Credit: Sergey Ponomarev for The New York Times By Megan Specia and Hwaida Saad The renewed prospect that Saudi Arabia might lift […]
Source: Reuters BY Lesley Wroughton, David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday called out ally Saudi Arabia for the suppression of religious liberties and urged it to […]
A new kind of collision between regional alliances is becoming the new life-or-death matter in the Arab world. And Egypt’s military is again in the heart of the complex and […]
Jul 22,2019 -JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh Developments in recent years across the region, especially the crises in Iraq and Syria, have facilitated a wide network of criminality. The […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Jack Jenkins (RNS) — Vice President Mike Pence and U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo both addressed a Christian pro-Israel group Monday (July 8), lifting […]
The US state department today has neither spine nor skull nor any other bodily form of existence. Trump long ago eviscerated the poor old thing by Robert Fisk, The Independent […]
Source: Associated Press By BASSEM MROUE BEIRUT (AP) — Mohammed Awwad and his fiancee, both Muslims, recently found an affordable apartment for rent online in a town in Lebanon, southeast […]
Unlike other countries, ordinary citizens are complicit in the perpetual crimes committed against defenseless Palestinians. Published on June 13, 2019 By Waleed S. Ahmed Why is everyone so obsessed […]
Source: The Economist SCORES OF millions of Orthodox Christians will on June 16th mark the feast of Pentecost. This celebration centres on the moment when, according to church tradition, the […]
Source: BBC News Iran has announced it will breach on 27 June the limit on its stockpile of enriched uranium that was set under a 2015 nuclear deal with world […]
Jennifer Bell June 11, 2019 MENA region has big gap between demand and availability of female volunteers Arab women’s familiarity with culture and languages of region could make a big […]
MERVE ŞEBNEM ORUÇ @mervesebnem Published 07.06.2019 Drawing parallels between the bloody conflicts in Europe before Westphalia, the U.S. in cooperation with Israel devise a strategy to create a minority-based fragmented […]
Source: Associated Press BY ARON HELLER JERUSALEM (AP) — The trigger for Israel’s unprecedented repeat election touches upon one of the major fault lines in Israeli society — the role […]
Source: Associated Press By ZEINA KARAM BEIRUT (AP) — Muslims across the Middle East and beyond began Tuesday marking the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr, one of the most celebrated […]
May 31, 2019 – 17:05 By Stephen Farrell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Muslims attended prayers at al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem amid tight security on the last […]