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 […]
Source: Associated press JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police say vandals have scrawled graffiti and affixed a knife with a Biblical verse at the home of a leader of a group advocating secular Judaism. Police say they are investigating Thursday’s incident at the home of Yaakov Malkin, the provost of the […]
Source: Reuters Israel has arrested two Jewish youths for anti-Christian graffiti scrawled on a Jerusalem monastery, police said on Wednesday, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered an investigation into the […]
Source: Al jazeera Less than 2 percent of all politically motivated acts of violence committed in Europe are carried out by Muslims. Yet, the media narrative of a crisis with “radical […]
Source: International Business Times The succession of the House of Saud is in doubt after 80-year-old King Salman is reported to be preparing the way for his son, rather than […]
Source: BBC The UN says violence suffered by civilians in Iraq “remains staggering”, with at least 18,800 killed between 1 January 2014 and 31 October 2015. Some 3.2 million people […]
Source: ET At last, at last, the Republic steps up. Or, at least, that’s what we hear from Pakistan’s media mills — the white and green is tiptoeing out onto the world stage again, with olive branches for everyone. May we hear that most meaningless phrase again: ‘a just and […]
Mark Sedgwick Monday 18 January 2016 Muslims have shown clearly that democracy is compatible not just with Islam but also with the idea of using state power to make a better world Source: Middle East Eye The biggest political news from the Muslim world remains the self-declared Caliphate based in […]
Source: Khaleej Times Shaikh Mohammed says UAE is one of the world’s most generous supporters of international humanitarian causes. The United Nations reached out to the UAE to help generate […]
Source: BBC Iran has denounced new sanctions imposed by the US over its ballistic missile programme. The sanctions had “no legal or moral legitimacy”, a foreign ministry spokesman said. In […]
The writer is travelling through the region by bicycle – trying to understand what lies beyond the bloody headlines The writer on the top of the Prokletije range on the Albania-Montenegro border. All photographs: Rebecca Lowe Rebecca Lowe Friday 15 January 2016 11.58 GMTLast modified on Saturday 16 January 201612.36 GMT […]
Source: Gulf News VIENNA: Iran has complied with last July’s nuclear deal, the UN atomic watchdog said Saturday, allowing sanctions to be lifted and the landmark accord to enter into force. The International Atomic Energy Agency said that its “inspectors on the ground verified that Iran has carried out all […]
Source: Al Jazeera Akre, Iraq – For Hanan, who’s more familiar with conflict than anyone her age should ever be, it’s the chance to create beauty that helps the most. […]
Source: Al Jazeera The world should be worried about an open conflict between Iran and Saudi Arabia, a former adviser to the Saudi Arabian royal family has told Al Jazeera. […]
Source: The National ABU DHABI // The majority of young Arab Muslims in the region view extremist groups as a perversion of Islam’s teachings, according to a recent study. They believed that repressive governments and foreign occupation were major reasons for people joining the ranks of the militants. The Tabah […]
Source: BBC An extra $250m (£174m) emergency funding will be provided for educating Syrian refugee children this year, the UN global education envoy Gordon Brown has announced in New […]
Jan. 13, 2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah I cannot recall when and by whom the term “Arab Spring” was first coined as a brand name for the series of uprisings that hit many Arab countries about five years ago. Suddenly, at the beginning of the year 2011, many […]