Palestinian human rights activists are calling on Oscar nominees not to accept travel vouchers supplied by the Israeli government as part of the gift bag that will be given to the nominees in the acting and directing categories. A statement from the Israeli ministry of tourism boasted that its initiative […]
UAE’s five newly appointed women ministers: Jameela Salem Al Muhairi as Minister of State for General Education (top left), Shamma AlMazrui as Minister of State for Youth Affairs (lower left), Ohood Al Roumi as Minister of State for Happiness (center), Najla Al Awar as Minister of Community Development (top right), […]
By AFP – Feb 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES In this February 5, 2016 file photo, Syrians walk towards the Turkish border at the Bab Al SalamA border gate, Syria (AP photo) PARIS — The siege of Aleppo has taken the West even further from achieving its key goals […]
Feb 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL As if Syrian refugees’ plight were not already unbearable, a grim dimension is added to it: the estimation that no less than 10,000 Syrian children who entered Europe are still unaccounted for, their whereabouts unknown. According to the EU criminal intelligence agency Europol, these […]
Feb 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Mahmoud N. Zidan Many people might think that the words Daesh and education are intrinsically antithetical, and they would be right if they were referring to education in our region in an abstract way. But education in the region, it is sad to admit, is […]
Feb 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Hasan Abu Nimah Not many observers were surprised by the quick collapse of the Syria peace talks last week. It would have been a bigger surprise if the Geneva talks, organised by UN special representative Staffan de Mistura, had lasted any longer, let alone accomplished […]
Source: BBC North Korea has executed its army chief of staff Ri Yong-gil, according to unconfirmed South Korean media reports. Senior officials in North Korea have previously been absent from […]
Source: BBC Ten candidates chugged in to New Hampshire after the Iowa caucuses with hopes of success. But now that the primary results are in, who has a ticket on […]
The Washington Post: by Amy Ellis Nutt — It torments the young and terrorizes the old. It carved “caverns” in Emily Dickinson’s soul and left William Blake “bereaved of light.” Loneliness, long a bane of humanity, is increasingly seen today as a serious public health hazard. Scientists who have identified […]
Source: BBC Have you ever tried to unsuccessfully retrieve a word from the tip of your tongue? Most of us have experienced it – the usually simple process of verbalising […]
Source: BBC Google’s self-driving car system could soon be given the same legal definition as a human driver, paving the way for vehicles without steering wheels or pedals. The US […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rached Ghannouchi President of Tunisia’s Ennahdha Party This post is an edited/updated version of Sheikh Rached Ghannouchi’s October 1, 2014 Lecture at Columbia University’s Institute for […]
Source: Huffington Post By Omar Alnatour; Palestinian-American Muslim. Student. Humanitarian. When I was a toddler, I was terrified of ladybugs. There was just something about how different they looked that […]
20 brilliant photographs which hugely impressed us in 2015 Sometimes, you see a photograph which summons a whole storm of emotions inside. Often this is down to a perfectly chosen angle or a shot taken at just the right A herd of sheep pass through a gate The heavens open. […]
Source: Scientific Amercan Organized religion is a cornerstone of spiritual community and culture around the world. Religion, especially religious education, also attracts secular support because many believe that religion fosters morality. A majority of the United States believes that faith in a deity is necessary to being a moral person. […]
Source: BBC How does it feel to give up your nationality, to renounce the country you were born in, potentially forfeiting the chance to ever return? “It’s not going to […]
Source: Star Tribune Gail Rosenblum@GROSENBLUM Hanadi Chehabeddine understands the worries that many Americans harbor about terrorism and national security. She hopes that they also understand something. “Muslims are afraid, too,” […]
Source: Star Tribune Nade Conrad’s long black hair disappeared under the cover of a lilac hijab. “I feel different,” she said. Conrad, who is not Muslim, had donned the scarf […]
Source: Hartford Courant HARTFORD — A Meriden man accused of firing a rifle at a mosque next to his home shortly after the terrorist attacks in Paris is scheduled to […]
Source: RNS (RNS) The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Monday (Feb. 8) that it was starting a new National Catholic-Muslim Dialogue group, an initiative driven in part by growing anti-Islamic sentiment that many bishops have denounced. “As the national conversation around Islam grows increasingly fraught, coarse and driven by […]