The New Arab Saud al-Qahtani, MbS’ ‘media enforcer’, in fresh spotlight amid Khashoggi affair Soud al-Qahtani the media enforcer of Mohammed bin Salman [Twitter] Date of publication: 13 October, 2018 […]
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It’s Getting Harder to Talk About God Source: NY Times By Jonathan Merritt, who writes about the intersection of religion, culture and politics. The decline in our spiritual vocabulary has […]
Source: Time By LAIGNEE BARRON Australia will ban schools from expelling gay students after a leaked report revealed the practice was enforced at some religious schools, according to Agence France-Presse. The report, commissioned […]
Source: BBC News The United Nations is warning that 13 million people in Yemen are facing starvation. It’s calling on the military coalition, led by Saudi Arabia, to halt air […]
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WHO’S AFRAID OF AYMANN ISMAIL? An American Muslim Marriage Stereotypes about Muslim marriages made me fear what would happen when I entered my own. By AYMANN ISMAIL and JEFFREY BLOOMER OCT 14, 2018 This is the Season 2 finale of “Who’s Afraid of Aymann Ismail?,” a series featuring Slate’s Aymann […]
TRISTAN KIRK Courts Correspondent The Evening Standard A man has admitted being behind the Punish a Muslim day hate campaign ( Twitter ) A white supremacist behind the Punish a […]
(CNN)Saudi Arabia has given Turkey permission to search its Istanbul consulate Monday afternoon, nearly two weeks after journalist Jamal Khashoggi went missing there, a Turkish diplomatic source told CNN. The […]
Source: CT They warn any changes in that stance ‘will create major problems for many of us, both here and in the wider [Anglican] Communion’, declaring that ‘recent history tragically demonstrates that introducing changes in teaching and liturgy has consistently divided Anglicans globally and within provinces’. The letter has been […]
Source: Dawn A PUBLICLY acknowledged meeting between a US envoy and the Afghan Taliban is perhaps another sign that the US is, at long last, willing to acknowledge the political and military reality in Afghanistan. Zalmay Khalilzad, a hawkish diplomat appointed as the US special representative for Afghanistan reconciliation last […]
ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL AK Party Istanbul deputy and Turkey-Palestine Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group Chairman Hasan Turan speaks at the “International Conference on the Muslim Ummah” in Istanbul on Oct. 14, […]
BY BRIAN CATES October 12, 2018 News Analysis A story broke last week that a Saudi journalist named Jamal Khashoggi, who was working for The Washington Post, had disappeared and […]
Mohammed bin Salman cultivated an image as a reformer. But he struggles to accept any criticism Emma Graham-Harrison Sat 13 Oct 2018 Mohammed bin Salman, de facto ruler of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Photograph: Mikhail Metzel/Getty Images Looming over the disappearance and presumed murder of a dissident Saudi […]
12 March 2018 Charities’ sexual misconduct scandal Image copyrightEPAImage captionAid workers have been under intense scrutiny since revelations emerged about Oxfam in Haiti In our series of letters from African […]
Men harvest chicory in a field in Sezze, in the Italian province of Latina. Sikh workers have to call the landlord ‘Master’. Photograph: Marco Valle After years of arduous, badly […]
THE BOOK Money Logging investigates what former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has called ‘probably the biggest environmental crime of our times’—the massive destruction of the Borneo rainforest by Malaysian […]
Oct. 15, 2018, By VICTOR AMADALA @itsamadala “Ethics and Anti-Corruption Commission (EACC) estimates corruption takes away at least Sh600 billion of the country’s budget every year.” /FILE Corruption is the […]
ENVIRONMENT The EU’s biofuel policy was meant to help the climate. Instead it’s been linked to loss of rainforest because of its reliance on palm oil. New rules aim to […]
The looming military offensive on the Idlib province in Syria has been called off for now. People there are yearning to return to normal life and rapidly planning for the […]