April 3, 2016 TEHRAN – South Alabama University Professor Nader Entessar believes that Machiavellianism is dominant in the Middle East. “Also, theories of imperialism will also help us better understand the current conditions in the Middle East,” Entessar tells the Tehran Times. Following is the full text of the interview: […]
Source: Associated Press TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel promoted an Arab police officer to deputy commissioner on Wednesday, making him the highest-ranking Muslim ever to serve in the force […]
Source: Buzz Feed News By Mike Giglio, BuzzFeed News Middle East Correspondent, Munzer al-Awad, BuzzFeed Contributor. It’s far easier to join ISIS than to leave. Members of a hidden community of […]
Source: The New York Times By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI Somewhere, there is a digital archive containing the portraits of the Islamic State’s network of fighters in Europe. The image of each fighter was stored in this database months before last year’s attacks in Paris, and after each new terror strike, the […]
Source: Yahoo News By Stuart Williams Istanbul (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday urged dozens of Muslim leaders gathered for a summit in Istanbul to end sectarian divisions […]
Source: The Times Of Israel Palestinians placed notices on the Temple Mount compound in Jerusalem warning of plans to smash security cameras installed at the site holy to both Muslims […]
By Brian Dooley As peace talks resume in Geneva, one thing is clear: Syria will need to address sectarianism if it is to succeed. Syrian sectarianism is often presented as insoluble, derived from age-old divisions, and impossible to control or contain. But new research suggests that it may not be […]
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe (RNS) The largest gathering of Muslim leaders in the world kicks off a five-day conference that will call for a new peace process to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Other weighty issues at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation summit include combatting extremism within Muslim nations, countering Islamophobia in the rest […]
Source: The Guardian By Patrick Kingsley Fewer than 0.1% of Syrians in Turkey currently stand to gain the right to work under much-vaunted Turkish labour laws, undermining EU claims that the […]
Source: CBS News BEIRUT— The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has released most of the 300 cement workers it abducted near Damascus after questioning them to find out who were Muslims and killing four who were members of the minority Druze sect, a Syrian opposition monitoring group […]
Source: BBC The US has warned its citizens of “credible threats” to tourist areas in Turkey, particularly in Istanbul and the southern resort city of Antalya. Both the Islamic State […]
Source: BBC Wearing the hijab is a legal requirement for women in Iran. But a controversial Facebook campaign is calling on female tourists visiting the country to post pictures […]
Source: The New York Times By DIAA HADID JERUSALEM — It was a typical day at the shrine around what many believe is the tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem’s Old […]
Source: The New York Times By Lisa Goldman A contributing editor and co-founder of +972 Magazine, a Tel Aviv-based digital magazine. UPDATED APRIL 4, 2016, 3:20 AM Zionism is a political ideology. It is not a religion. But for Jewish-Americans, more so than ever for Jews in Israel, Zionism is a […]
Source: RT The latest issue of a children’s magazine published by Diyanet, the Turkish Presidency of Religious Affairs, which is a government agency and the highest national religious body, contains a series of cartoons glorifying Islamic martyrdom. A colorful cartoon titled “may god bless our martyrs, may their graves be […]
Source: The New York Times When the University of California regents condemned “anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism,” supporters of Palestinian rights said the university was suppressing criticism of Israel. In New York, […]
Source: Huffington Post By Zoha Qamar Student at Columbia University The caramel dunes and rocky hills melt up into the sky. It is night, almost morning; it is dark, but not quite black-almost the last sparkling shade of heavy purple that bleeds from the spectrum between blue to black. A thick […]
Source: Huffington Post By Zoha Qamar Student at Columbia University The black silk was cold and soft. The protruding layers of thread that spelt out “Allah” in neat Arabic curls absorbed the tears and prayers sprayed at the cloth’s delicate font, while still reflecting the flood of light that shone from […]
Source: Aljazeera By Ted Regencia Iraqi-born British architect Zaha Hadid, the first female winner of the top Pritzker Architecture Prize, has died at the age of 65. Hadid died after suffering […]
Source: The Washington Post By Sudarsan Raghavan CAIRO — At a literary gathering in Cairo, the poem Fatma Naoot chose to read could not have been more relevant. It was […]