Kushner discusses Mideast peace with Saudi rulers
By AFP – Feb 28,2019 – JORDAN TIMES US President Donald Trump, flanked by White House senior adviser Jared Kushner, meets with Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed Bin Salman at the Ritz Carlton […]
What the Hajj Pilgrimage Is Like, According to a Muslim American
Abu Zafar Yesterday 1:00pm Gizmodo Media Group is teaming up with Smartypants Pictures to premiere the second season of The Secret Life of Muslims—a video series with a view on modern Islam you’re not getting on cable news. Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam. All Muslims are […]
Award-Winning Film on Controversial Pakistani Physicist to Screen March 7
March 01, 2019 Photo provided by Anand Kamalakar FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Anand Kamalakar, a Brooklyn-based documentary editor, will present his film Salam at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 7, in the Graduate Education […]
The Essential Black Muslim Reading List
Black Muslims are not lost in history, even if their history has been disregarded. By Vanessa Taylor February 26, 2019 In 2018, the Council on American-Islamic Relations reported that anti-Muslim […]
Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib show Muslim women don’t need saving
The two US congresswomen are shattering all kinds of damaging stereotypes about Muslim women. by Sahar Aziz 26 Feb 2019 US congresswomen Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib were sworn into […]
Mahershala Ali, The First Muslim Actor To Win Two Oscars, Paid Tribute To Jinnah While Accepting His Award
Source: Mango Baaz By Arslan Athar In 2017, Mahershala Ali made history by being the first African American man to win an Oscar, on top of which he was the […]
What should be done in the Middle East? Ask the Romans
The more you travel, the more you realise the obvious, says Robert Fisk: globalisation is nothing new. To fix today’s crises, we must look at the fall of the world’s […]
Polygamist family tries to cast practice in a more normal light
February 25, 2019 RAPID CITY, SD (KOTA/Gray News) – Polygamy is illegal in all 50 states, but for three people in South Dakota, the law is not standing in […]
Mahershala Ali wins best supporting actor Oscar for Green Book
Source: The Guardian Mahershala Ali has won the Oscar for best supporting actor for his role as Don Shirley in Green Book in the 91st Academy Awards. This is Ali’s second […]
‘Tit-for-tat steps’ toward a nuclear war
HAKKI ÖCAL@hakkiocal Published24.02.2019 Russian President Vladimir Putin’s response to reports that the U.S. would deploy short-range missiles has strong warnings about how they could counter this move. Those missiles, […]
Showdown in Munich
Feb 24,2019 -JORDAN TIMES – CARL BILDT MUNICH — It was at the 2007 Munich Security Conference that Russian President Vladimir Putin first signalled a cooling of Russian-Western relations. Soon […]
‘You’re fired!’ America has already terminated Trump
Robert Reich The Mueller report looms but the president is doomed anyway – no one who screws the people so blatantly can win re-election Sun 24 Feb 2019 Donald Trump delivers his “You’re fired!” catchphrase at a rally in Manchester, New Hampshire in 2015. Photograph: Dominick Reuter/REUTERS Robert Mueller’s soon-to-be-delivered […]
Saudi Arabia announces princess as US ambassador
Source: BBC Saudi Arabia has announced that Princess Rima bint Bandar al-Saud will become its next ambassador to the US – the first woman ever to take on an envoy […]
Even Trump’s America gives asylum seekers faster working rights than the UK – we must end this cruel ban
The change we’re requesting is so small as far as government policy is concerned – we’re asking for the UK to catch up with the rest of the western world […]
US House panel opens probe into Trump’s plans to transfer nuclear tech to Saudi
ANADOLU AGENCY WASHINGTON Published20.02.2019 Reuters Photo The House Oversight committee opened an investigation Tuesday into the Trump administration’s plans to transfer “highly sensitive” nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. The […]
U.S. pressing Gulf states to keep Syria isolated – sources
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 18, 2019 FILE PHOTO: A picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is seen at a train station in Damascus, Syria, September 12, 2018. […]
Call to ban killer robots in wars
By Pallab GhoshScience correspondent, BBC News, Washington DC 15 February 2019 Image captionThis is not about terminator robots but “conventional weapons systems with autonomy” A group of scientists has called […]
The West is encouraging a vicious war between Sunnis and Shias — that’s the real truth about Iran and Saudi Arabia
It is pitiful to listen to Netanyahu blathering on about ‘the last anniversary of the revolution [the Iranians] will celebrate’ if Iran attacks Tel Aviv. It is equally pitiful to listen to a Revolutionary Guards commander claiming that Iran could demolish entire cities in Israel if the US attacked Iran […]
If Trump and his friends seriously cared about antisemitism, Ilhan Omar wouldn’t be their priority
Ilhan Omar was accused of being antisemitic for tweeting about AIPAC Democrats and Republicans alike have seemed much more eager to make an issue of a progressive’s jokes about a […]
The Venezuela dangerous precedent
Feb 09,2019 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL Even if all the accusations being levelled against the elected president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, are basically correct, that does not mean that foreign […]