Saudi Arabia Has Issued Its First Driver’s Licenses to 10 Women
Source: Time By AYA BATRAWY / AP (DUBAI) — Saudi Arabia issued its first driver’s licenses to 10 women on Monday as the kingdom prepared to lift the world’s only ban […]
As Taboos Break Down, Iranians Party On
Source: The New York Times By Thomas Erdbrink TEHRAN — To get to the Emarat wedding hall, you have to drive outside Tehran and into the countryside, down a series […]
Younger Evangelicals Waver in Support for Israel
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Ian Lovett Updated June 3, 2018 5:33 p.m. ET JERUSALEM—Growing up in evangelical Christian churches, Caleb Fitzpatrick learned quickly to be a steadfast supporter […]
Cambridge Analytica’s Parent Company Helped Shape Saudi Arabia’s Reform Movement
Source: The New York Times By Danny Hakim The price of oil was in free fall and a youthful population restive. So the government of Saudi Arabia turned in […]
Rabbinical court in Israel rejects ‘liberal’ American rabbis
Source: Religion News Service By Michele Chabin Students attend a lecture at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah, located at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. Photo courtesy of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah JERUSALEM (RNS) […]
Fearing extremist violence, Egypt silences 20,000 storefront mosques
Source: Religion News Service By Jacob Wirtschafter and Amr El Tohamy CAIRO (RNS) – The Egyptian government has banned preaching at 20,000 mosques as a precautionary measure to prevent extremist […]
Egypt blocks YouTube over film denigrating prophet Muhammad
Source: The Guardian Egypt’s top administrative court ordered authorities to block video-sharing website YouTube for a month over a film denigrating Islam’s prophet Muhammad. The ruling on Saturday ends a […]
Muslim women ridicule MAC cosmetics for ‘Ramadan makeup’ tutorial
Source: RT Muslim women have ridiculed MAC Cosmetics for posting a makeup tutorial video showing women how to look “glamorous” for suhoor – a pre-dawn meal consumed before fasting during […]
Saudi Arabia Told The World Its Problem Was Islam. It’s Actually Tyranny.
Source: Huffington Post Saudi authorities have arrested more than 10 prominent activists, many of them women, and are describing them as “traitors.” By Akbar Shahid Ahmed CHRIS J RATCLIFFE VIA […]
Saudi Arabia arrests key activist in human rights crackdown
Source: The Guardian Mohammed al-Bajadi held along with women who campaigned for right to drive BY Patrick Wintour Diplomatic editor Prince Mohammed bin Salman: the arrests may be a warning […]
In Gaza, border opening brings relief and anxiety
Source: Associated Press By FARES AKRAM RAFAH BORDER CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AP) — Just after daybreak, Hamed al-Shaer came down the narrow stairway of his family’s home in southern Gaza […]
U.S. ambassador to Israel receives a photo replacing Jerusalem’s holiest Muslim shrines with a Jewish temple
Source: The Washington Post By Adam Taylor U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman delivers a speech May 14 during the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. (Menahem Kahana/AFP/Getty Images) In […]
Ramadan ad featuring Trump, Putin, Kim and others goes viral (VIDEO)
Source: The Russian Times An ad by Kuwaiti mobile phone operator Zain, in which a young Muslim boy calls on world leaders to address crises in the Arab world, has […]
Turkey’s Muslim-friendly holidays find a modest place in the sun
Source: Reuters By Ezgi Erkoyun ALANYA, Turkey (Reuters) – Turkey’s $26 billion tourism industry has been battered by security fears and political disputes in recent years but one corner of […]
Saudi Arabia widens crackdown on women’s rights activists
Source: BBC News Saudi Arabia has reportedly arrested three more women’s rights activists in a crackdown launched just weeks before a ban on women driving will be lifted. Human rights […]
Followers of Jesus fail to agree about his homeland
Source: The Economist HUNDREDS of millions of followers of Jesus Christ are about to celebrate the annual feast of Pentecost, which celebrates an event in Jerusalem roughly 2,000 years ago, […]
Israel and Evangelicals: New U.S. Embassy Signals a Growing Alliance
Source: The New York Times By David D. Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth Dias and David M. Halbfinger May 19, 2018 A night after the dedication of the new United States Embassy in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel convened American evangelicals to plan their next steps. In a conference room off his office, Mr. Netanyahu thanked the […]
Despite fatwa, transgender people in Iran face harassment
Source; Associated Press By MEHDI FATTAHI and NASSER KARIMI TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Nahal smokes yet another cigarette on her mother’s balcony overlooking Tehran, one of the few peaceful places […]
Saudi Women’s Activists Arrested Prior To Lifting Of Driving Ban
Source: NPR BY SASHA INGBER At least six prominent defenders of women’s rights in Saudi Arabia were detained this week, six weeks before the kingdom’s ban on women from driving is […]
Gaza border protests resume as UN calls for inquiry
Source: Associated Press By ASHRAF SWEILAM and FARES AKRAM GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians resumed their fiery protests at Gaza’s border with Israel on Friday as a U.N. […]