Green project to produce food, energy from sun and seawater
AMMAN — Greenhouses for producing high-value crops will soon be established in Aqaba’s desert through a pilot project that is also aimed at generating clean energy and fresh water, the […]
Israel joins UN list of states limiting human rights organizations
UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay lists Israel along with countries such as Belarus, Zimbabwe, Egypt, Ethiopia and Venezuela. Haaretz: A senior UN official in Geneva last week listed Israel among the countries that she says are restricting the activities of human rights groups. The statement, issued on Wednesday by […]
After the Arab spring, the sexual revolution?
Source: The Guardian Author: Martin Chulov, Eileen Byrne, and Abdel-Rahman Hussein An explosive call for a sexual revolution across the Arab world in which the author argues that Arab men “hate” Arab women has provoked a fierce debate about the subjugation of women in countries such as Egypt, Morocco and […]
Israeli official larceny
Israel’s timing was predicable. With the world’s gaze focused on the horrors in Syria and the Obama administration increasingly diverted by November’s presidential election, it chose this week to declare “legal” three fortified West Bank settlements which had been originally been erected by fanatical Zionists in contravention of their country’s […]
Israel’s top general says Iran unlikely to make bomb
(Reuters) – Israel’s military chief said he does not believe Iran will decide to build an atomic bomb and called its leaders “very rational” – comments that clashed with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assessment. Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz’s remarks, in an interview published on Wednesday in the left-wing Haaretz newspaper, drew […]
Pakistani NGO Maps Religious Extremism in Pakistan
Pakistani NGO Maps Religious Extremism in Pakistan, Says Extremism Greater Menace than Terrorism MEMRI: (The Middle East Media Research Institute): In February 2012, a leading Pakistani research institute published a […]
Arab youths have just started to act
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon People often tell me that I sound very optimistic when I speak about the future of the Arab world. It is true […]
Senior U.S. General Orders Top-to-Bottom Review of Military’s Islam Training
Source: The wired.com – By Spencer Ackerman The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday ordered the entire U.S. military to scour its training material to ensure it doesn’t contain anti-Islamic content, Danger Room has learned. The order came after the Pentagon suspended a course for senior officers […]
Israel punishes Palestinian hunger strikers by removing rights
Israeli authorities are trying new methods to end hunger strikes among Palestinian prisoners. The measures include canceling prisoners’ rights to family visits and confiscating of their possessions. “Privileges such as family visits have been revoked and items such as electronics have been confiscated,” Sivan Weizman, a spokesperson for the Israeli […]
Egyptian MPs. Calls on Top Sunni Cleric “Ali Gomaa” to Resign Over al-Quds Trip
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) – The Egyptian MPs on Sunday voted to demand Grand Mufti Ali Gomaa to submit his resignation and apologize to both Arabs and Muslims, Reuters reported. […]
Text of Abbas’s letter to Netanyahu leaked
Summary: • We agreed to establish the State of Palestine on only 22% of the territory of historical Palestine-on all the Palestinian Territory occupied by Israel in 1967. • The establishment of independent Palestinian State that can live side-by-side with the State of Israel in peace and security on the […]
Twain shall meet in Turkey
By AIJAZ ZAKA SYEPagesD, ARABNEWS Kipling was wrong; the East and West can and do meet. They do here in Turkey! Turkey is a nation forever living in two worlds. […]
Noble Laureate from Yemen, Tawakul Karman responds to Hijab
To Know more how you can benefit from the Muslim Times, go to our Homepage or About Us page When asked about her Hijab By Journalists and how it is not proportionate with her […]
Israel removes officer shown hitting activist from post
BBC: An Israeli army officer filmed hitting a pro-Palestinian protester in the face with his rifle has been dismissed from his post, the military says. A video showing Lt Col Shalom Eisner striking the young Danish activist was shown on the internet and Israeli TV. An army statement said Lt […]
Israel’s Iranian Jews
BBC: Israel’s Iranian Jews caught in middle An estimated 250,000 Jews of Iranian descent live in Israel – most of them in the city of Holon, just outside Tel Aviv. […]
The peace train- from Israel to Iran
Jerusalem Post: If you really love Iranians, then have the courage to speak out against the regime that oppresses them. A Facebook campaign called “Israel Loves Iran” has drawn huge […]
Israel should never forget its Mideast atrocities
The major problem in the Grass affair is not the way Israel blackmails every German. Rather, it’s Israelis’ inability to understand this country other than through the way it’s portrayed […]
New entry requirement to Israel
Israel forces tourist to pledge to avoid pro-Palestinian activities as condition for entry Haaretz: A 30-year-old Swedish tourist was forced to sign an ‘obligation form,’ written in broken English, when […]
Red Sea Project developer to be announced by October – ministry
Ministry to meet with bidding companies next week by Hana Namrouqa | Apr 12,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The master developer of the Jordan Red Sea Project (JRSP) will […]
Foundation: Israelis enter Al-Aqsa Mosque compound
JERUSALEM (Ma’an News) — Jewish worshipers entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Wednesday accompanied by Israeli forces, the Al-Aqsa Mosque Foundation said. Security guards at the compound prevented the Israelis […]