Source: The New York Times JERUSALEM — It seemed a solution worthy of Solomon: create a permanent egalitarian prayer space at the Western Wall alongside the gender-segregated area that has […]
Source: The Guardian A Saudi court has overturned the death sentence of a Palestinian poet accused of renouncing Islam, imposing an eight-year prison term and 800 lashes instead. He must […]
Source: The New York Times MARRAKESH, Morocco — At a recent conference held by Muslim scholars to confront violence in the Islamic world, a representative of the Yazidi religious minority […]
Source: BBC More than 250,000 Syrians have lost their lives in four-and-a-half years of armed conflict, which began with anti-government protests before escalating into a full-scale civil war. More than 11 million others have been forced from their homes as forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad and those opposed to […]
Source: BBC Zahi Khouri was nine when his Palestinian Christian family left their home in Jaffa. It was 1948; modern Israel was being born, and his parents, listening to the […]
Source: Time Hidden transmitters can relay signals to areas controlled by ISIS and the Syrian government In his Berlin office, Philipp Hochleichter, points to a map of Syria showing the […]
Source: Time “I couldn’t hold myself together. I couldn’t look at his face,” says the photographer who witnessed the latest harrowing scene of drowned children MORE Alan Kurdi’s Story: Behind […]
Source: Reuters The Israeli government approved on Sunday the creation of a mixed-sex plaza at Jerusalem’s Western Wall to accommodate Jews who contest Orthodox curbs on worship by women there. […]
Created on Monday, 01 February 2016 The Rise of ISIS and Other Extremist Groups: the role of the West and Regional Powers by Bouthaina Shaaban This essay examines the role of Western and regional players (i.e. Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar) in inflaming the conflict and the growth of […]
Source: BBC At least 45 people have been killed in three blasts near the Shia shrine of Sayyida Zeinab, south of the Syrian capital Damascus, state media say. The Islamic […]
Source: Huffington Post A Saudi prince may have just beaten Donald Trump at a game of Twitter trolling. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal said on Twitter that he’s bailed the billionaire out twice — and suggested the GOP presidential frontrunner might need his help a third time. The exchange was initiated […]
Jan 28,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ahmad Y. Majdoubeh By “lost generation” I am not referring to Gertrude Stein’s famous description of the generation that grew up during and after World War I in America and Europe. I am borrowing the term to describe the current, sad, state of our young […]
Source: The Indian Express An Egyptian court has sentenced secular writer Fatima Naoot to three years in prison and a fine of $2,550 after being found guilty of insulting Islam, […]
Source: BBC Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of “encouraging terror”. Referring to the Palestinians, Mr Ban said it was human nature for oppressed […]
Source: Gulf News Manama: Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel Al Jubeir has denied the existence of a Pakistani mediation between his country and Iran. Reports last week said that Pakistan […]
Source: BBC It is now four months since Russia launched its military intervention in Syria, with air strikes and a build-up of troops on the ground. The BBC’s Steve Rosenberg has been embedded with Russian troops and has sent this diary of his four-day visit. Crowded skies We last visited […]
Source: The Economist THE WORLD was shocked by this week’s revelation that a 1,400-year-old monastery in Iraq had been razed to the ground by Islamic State (IS). Satellite pictures obtained […]
Source: The Economist Our Middle East correspondent speaks to Loujain al-Hathloul and Fahad Albutairi, a married couple, about Loujain’s arrest and incarceration for driving as a woman in Saudi Arabia http://econ.st/1VdXZuT Video here
By Reuters – Jan 21,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian boys walk past the remains of their family’s dwelling, which was funded by the EU’s humanitarian arm, after it was demolished by Israeli forces, near the West Bank village of Al Eizariya, east of Jerusalem, on Thursday (Reuters photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM […]
Source: The Guardian By Kareem Shaheen in Beirut Game likely to take on status of minor vices such as music after Sheikh Abdulaziz al-Sheikh says it encourages gambling Saudi Arabia’s […]