Source: Morocco World News: Rabat- Morocco expressed understanding, on Monday, of the refusal of Saudi Arabia to sit on the UN Security Council, said a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. More:
By Nora P. Goodman Morocco World News Portland, Oregon, April 13, 2013 He came from Morocco to the USA on the Lottery in 2011. He had only been here three […]
JEDDAH: MOHANNAD SHARAWI ARABNEWS Tuesday 4 June 2013 We have heard of cases of girls being blackmailed through social media or other cyber networks. However, there has been little discussion […]
ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS Friday 17 May 2013 Shamsuddin Mohammed, “Ibn Battuta”, the great Muslim adventurer of Morocco, was born on 17th of Rajab 703 AH (corresponding to Feb. 24, […]
STORY SUMMARY In the context of the Arab-Israeli conflict, “Jewishness” and “Arabness” are often positioned as mutually exclusive; Morocco seems to exemplify important ways of reconciling these identities. Jews have […]
By Al Arabiya The first Muslim woman to win an Olympic gold medal could be the first female to break men’s long-standing in heading the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for 2013, a newspaper reported Sunday. Nawal al-Moutawakel, who is IOC’s vice-president, became the first Moroccan, African, Arab, Muslim woman to […]
Source: Dawn.com MYRIAD problems afflicting Muslims today are of our own making. The combined GDP of a billion plus Muslims living in some 56 sovereign Muslim states is less than that of Japan. Barring a few countries like Malaysia and Turkey, most Muslim states are underdeveloped. Pakistan has seven million […]
THE ECONOMIST, Beirut. A MOB attacked Alexander Aan even before an Indonesian court in June jailed him for two and a half years for “inciting religious hatred”. His crime was to write “God does not exist” on a Facebook group he had founded for atheists in Minang, a province of […]
By NBC News staff and wire services Morocco barred Dutch abortion rights activists Thursday from docking their campaign ship to spread awareness about safe abortion methods in a Muslim country […]
CASABLANCA: Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah received members of the board of directors of King Abdullah International Center for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue here yesterday. “King Abdullah […]
Eight Islamic Sects Meet in Saudi, But Can They Make Amends? Leaders of Islamic countries pose during the official photo taking session of the Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) summit in Mecca August 14, 2012. Leaders of Muslim countries are expected to suspend Syria’s membership of the OIC at a […]
King Abdullah’s Islamic unity vision lauded Faheem Al-Hamid and Muhammad Al-Mukhtar Al-Faal Okaz/Saudi Gazette JEDDAH — The Islamic unity vision of King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, and his initiative to convene the Islamic solidarity summit in Makkah this week has come for all-round praise from Arab and Muslim […]
Source: Eurasia review August 7, 2012 By Hassan Benmehdi Morocco is becoming a trailblazer in the Arab world in terms of countering extremist ideology and promoting “tolerance, respect and dialogue among religious groups”, according to a just-published report. In its latest study on religious freedoms around the world, the US […]
New Egypt-based Islamic TV channel caters to fully veiled women Washington Post Conservative Islam and its most visible hallmark, the niqab, appear to be on the rise on Egypt’s cultural scene as well, and the launch of Maria TV is an attempt to cater to that growing segment of society. A decade ago, the […]
By Nadia Rabbaa The Daily Star, Lebanon This coming September, 30,000 Moroccan youths, aged 16 to 30, will participate in a nationwide discussion on the development of a new youth council. The Consultative Council for Youth and Social Work (which is known simply as the Youth Council) is meant to […]
The latest antics of the Arab League have proved once again that the body is essentially sleepwalking through its duties, jerked awake occasionally by its need to prove it is still alive, before returning to its stupor. Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani appealed to President Bashar Assad […]
By Mohammed Masbah The Daily Star Morocco’s Justice and Development Party (PJD) will hold its seventh congress this weekend under extraordinary circumstances; for the first time, the PJD will be holding this conference as the ruling party – a new reality that raises many questions about its internal governance. Abdelilah […]
By: Sultan Al-Qassemi First published on Gulfnews.com on 20th of May 2012 The post-Arab Spring political scene has exposed the frailty of the ‘marriage of convenience’ between free-thinkers and conservatives. […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star The past year across the Arab world has revealed the variety of ways in which citizens and governments deal with the challenges they face from their own people for significant political reform, or even a change of regime. Four countries in particular – […]
by Rand Dalgamouni | May 29,2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Countries in West Asia and North Africa (WANA) should build peaceful ties with each other to come up with […]