By Mallika Kaur – June 7, 2020 As I was completing my MPP, a faculty member at Harvard Kennedy School had written to the chair of a prominent North American foundation, […]
By Sikh24 Editors – June 14, 2020 CHANDIGARH, Punjab—At the time of India-Pakistan partition in 1947, a Hindu shopkeeper doing business on a rented shop was forced to leave his shop […]
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AA The state-run Turkish Human Rights and Equality Agency (TIHEK) slapped a TL 5,000 ($729) fine on the administration of a condominium that banned women from […]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (AP) Short Url https://arab.news/p9p2f Netanyahu is trying to confuse the international position which rejects annexation REUTERS June 18, 2020 JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is weighing […]
(CNN) President Donald Trump has signed a bill that aims to punish China for its human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslim population on the same day his former national […]
Source: Boston Globe By Deirdre Fernandes An MIT chaplain was asked to resign last week after he sent a message to the university’s Catholic community suggesting that George Floyd’s killing by […]
Epigraph: O people! We created you from a male and a female, and made you races and tribes, that you may know one another. The best among you in the […]
Voices Our Rights Have Been Stripped Credit: Dave Granlund, PoliticalCartoons.com By Osaama Saifi Sun Jun 14, 2020 d have conceived that America — the greatest country in the world — could […]
Mirza Kaleem Ahmad ISLAM • RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS Our God 11th June 2020 Shutterstock ID 528203005 Mirza Kaleem Ahmad, Virgina USA Since time immemorable, humans have been in quest to understand whether there […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like the saving of the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: WSJ By Daniela Hernandez, Sarah Toy […]
BY BURHANETTIN DURAN COLUMNS JUN 17, 2020 12:05 AM GMT+3 Turkey’s drilling vessel, Fatih, sails through the Bosporus as it leaves for the Black Sea, Istanbul, Turkey, May 29, 2020. (Reuters […]
Jun 16,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMZY BAROUD The banning of deadly police practices by many American states and cities following the murder of an African American man, George Floyd, […]
Source: CNN At least 20 Indian soldiers have died after a “violent face-off” with Chinese troops along the countries’ de facto border in the Himalayas late Monday, the Indian army has said.The incident occurred during a “deescalation process” underway in the Galwan Valley in the disputed Aksai Chin-Ladakh area, where […]
Jun 16,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH Within the next few weeks we will know for sure what parts of the occupied West Bank Israel is going to […]
By AFP – Jun 16,2020 -JORDAN TIMES A Palestinian child stands at his family land east of Tubas in the Jordan Valley on Monday (AFP photo) GENEVA — Israel’s plan […]
Solving the issue of waste in our seas turned out to be more complex than scrounging for bottles off the beach, Laura Trethewey found Seascape: the state of our oceans […]
Source: The New Yorker By Ian Frazier, who is a staff writer at The New Yorker and most recently published “Hogs Wild: Selected Reporting Pieces.” In extreme circumstances like the […]
Source: New York Times By Mattia Ferraresi What does a supposedly secular world want with the creepy (and probably fake) remains of medieval saints? For a little more than $2,000, you […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like the saving of the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: BBC By Michelle Roberts; Health editor, […]
Sahar Esfandiari A new online campaign, Rumi Was Muslim, seeks to rectify the whitewashing and mistranslations of the renowned 13th-century Persian poet and Muslim scholar. Founded by researchers and translators Sharghzadeh and Zirrar, […]