Book Review: The Conference of the Birds
Book by Farid ud-Din Attar (Author) in Persian Book translated by: Dick Davis, who is currently professor of Persian at Ohio State University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of […]
The Spiritual Life of the Peacock
Source: Wall Street Journal By Nic Rowan St. Anthony described the birds as purified by tribulation, then adorned with virtue. On a summer afternoon a few years ago, Lisa Schubert […]
Everything we know about Neom, a ‘mega-city’ project in Saudi Arabia with plans for flying cars and robot dinosaurs
Source: Business Insider By Bill Bostock Saudi Arabia is building a futuristic mega-city called Neom deep in a desert bordering the Red Sea. The state has pledged at least $500 […]
Saudi Arabia is responsible for the slow death of the kingdom’s Nelson Mandela
By Abdullah Alaoudh April 25, 2020 Abdullah Alaoudh is a senior fellow in the Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown University. Abdullah al-Hamid, Saudi Arabia’s most prominent intellectual and […]
Ahmadiyya community announce virtual Iftar during quarantine
By Orlando Jenkinson Lando_j Reporter – Kingston, Elmbridge & Epsom South London and Surrey’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community announced plans for a virtual Big Iftar meal to mark Ramadan during […]
Ramadan unites Muslims worldwide amid coronavirus-enforced physical separation
Source: Arab News RIYADH: Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries have been forced to take strict precautionary measures to rein in the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak during Ramadan. Sheikh Abdul […]
Erdoğan offers condolences to Turkey’s Armenian community over 1915 events
Source: Daily Sabah President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan offered condolences to the Patriarch of Turkey’s Armenian community, as he highlighted determination to ensure that no citizen would be discriminated against based […]
Al-Aqsa preacher’s voice echoes across Jerusalem devoid of Ramadan crowds
Source: Swiss Info By Stephen Farrell JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An imam standing atop an 18-foot pulpit in a near-empty Al-Aqsa Mosque delivered the first Friday prayers of Ramadan in Jerusalem, […]
Curfew partially lifted across Saudi Arabia, except in Makkah city
RIYADH: King Salman has ordered the partial lifting of a curfew across Saudi Arabia, with the exception of the holy city of Makkah and adjacent places previously isolated after a […]
US Republican candidate: ‘I’m pushing to put (Islam) on trial’
Source: Arab News By Epherm Kossaify NEW YORK: At first, the Republican Party of Iowa was quick to distance itself from Rick Phillips, a Republican candidate for the state’s 2nd […]
Top economist: US coronavirus response is like ‘third world’ country
Source: The Guardian Joseph Stiglitz attacks Donald Trump, saying US on course for second Great Depression Donald Trump’s botched handling of the Covid-19 crisis has left the US looking like […]
Prince Charles pays respects to the Muslim NHS workers who died treating coronavirus patients in video marking the start of Ramadan
By Sophie Tanno For Mailonline Prince Charles has paid his respects to Muslim NHS workers who have lost their lives on the frontline of the coronavirus pandemic. […]
Canadians Share Why They Did Or Didn’t Remove A Parent From A Care Home
Source: The Huffington Post By Al Donato Here’s how two Ontarians answered, “Should I bring my parent home?” “Please don’t let her get sick when she can’t see me.” Tara […]
The Dalai Lama on Earth Day: COVID-19 is ‘a lesson in universal responsibility’
Source: Religion News Service (RNS) — On this 50th anniversary of Earth Day, our planet is facing one of the greatest challenges to the health and well-being of its people. […]
Young and middle-aged people, barely sick with covid-19, are dying of strokes
Source: Washington Post Doctors sound alarm about patients in their 30s and 40s left debilitated or dead. Some didn’t even know they were infected. Thomas Oxley wasn’t even on call the day he received the page to come to Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. There weren’t enough doctors […]
CNN’s Sanjay Gupta: Race For a Vaccine
He signed up for a coronavirus vaccine trial using a method that’s never been used in humans. Here’s why. (CNN) Despite all his medical knowledge, 31-year-old medical student and Ph. […]
Remdesivir Clinical Trials
Gilead-initiated Trials Gilead has initiated two Phase 3 clinical studies to evaluate the safety and efficacy of remdesivir in adults diagnosed with COVID-19 following the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s […]
Panel suggests remdesivir as preferred antiviral for pediatric COVID-19 patients
Source: Healio In new guidance, a panel of pediatric infectious diseases physicians and pharmacists suggested that supportive care alone is sufficient to treat most children with COVID-19. Among children who […]
Saudi Arabia to abolish flogging – supreme court
Source: BBC Saudi Arabia is to abolish flogging as a form of punishment, according to a legal document seen by media outlets. The directive from the Gulf kingdom’s Supreme Court […]
The Story of the 12 Monkeys: The Successful Chinese Vaccine
Vaccine shows promise in monkey trials, says Chinese company Source: Dawn Four macaques who received a high dose of the vaccine had “no detectable” amounts of the virus in their […]