Source: BBC News In our series of letters from Africa, Nigerian writer and novelist Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani considers why some earth tremors in Nigeria’s capital caused such a stir. Sometime […]
Source: Aljazeera By Hamid Dabashi On the Gregorian calendar (so named after Pope Gregory XIII) this September, two of the holiest Jewish and Islamic high holidays coincide. On September 10, […]
Epigraph: أَلَمْ يَرَوْا أَنَّا جَعَلْنَا اللَّيْلَ لِيَسْكُنُوا فِيهِ وَالنَّهَارَ مُبْصِرًا ۚ إِنَّ فِي ذَٰلِكَ لَآيَاتٍ لِّقَوْمٍ يُؤْمِنُونَ “Do they not see that We made the night that they may rest therein […]
Flickr.com Joseph Safra is the richest banker in the world, according to Forbes. And, incidentally, the name Safra means yellow, or gold, in Arabic. Convenient. Especially since the illustrious family […]
ISLAM September 21, 2018 By Adeola Yusuf The Sultan Of Sokoto and president general, Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has, again, declared that there is […]
The poll found that the older people are, the more likely they are to back a two-state solution. BY GIL HOFFMAN SEPTEMBER 5, 2018 Share on facebook Share on twitter Amid reports that US President Donald Trump’s “ultimate deal” Middle East peace plan will be postponed until after midterm elections […]
1. The theme this year is: The Right to Peace – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70. 2. In 2015, the UN adopted “17 Sustainable Development Goals” of […]
Speaking on the International Day of Peace, the minister of tolerance also said the country works to resolve crises wherever it can The National September 21, 2018 Sheikh Nahyan bin […]
Source: Daily Times But being a Muslim in Pakistan does not protect one from religious extremism. As I found out in 2013, when I started working as a relief doctor […]
Atif Mian Atif Mian was identified by the IMF as one of the 25 young economists who will shape the global economy WRITTEN BY Sidhant Sibal Updated: Sep 20, 2018, […]
Sep 20,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – AKRAN AL DEEK Europe seems to feed what Samuel Huntington called in his 1992 lecture “The clash of civilisations”: a myth that assumes cultural, […]
Sep 20,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – GWYNNE DYER Who said this? “The weak crumble, are slaughtered and are erased from history while the strong, for good or for ill, survive. […]
This is the old road from Ramallah to Jerusalem, lined with lost wealth and forgotten hopes and once-loved homes. They all now end, of course, at The Wall Robert Fisk in Bir […]
ImageWrestlers gather at the Maiwand Wrestling Club in Kabul on Sept. 6, the morning after a suicide bomber killed as many as 30 there.CreditCreditWakil Kohsar/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images By […]
Dr. Mike Ghouse is a speaker on Pluralism and is the founder president of the Center for Pluralism in Washington, DC. He is committed to building cohesive societies and offers pluralistic solutions on issues of the day. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikeghouse/ Applications for The Global Youth Peace Conference is still open! The Center for […]
Source: Huffington Post For decades, the medical community has ignored mountains of evidence to wage a cruel and futile war on fat people, poisoning public perception and ruining millions of […]
Source: Religion News Service BY Michele Chabin JERUSALEM (RNS) — Roughly one-sixth of the 613 commandments in the Torah, the Hebrew Scriptures, touch on business and monetary practices. The Talmud, the […]
Source: The Guardian BY Aamna Mohdin, Vikram Dodd and Jamie Grierson Three people have been injured after a car ploughed into a crowd outside a north London Islamic centre, in an incident that is being treated […]
Source: Reuters By Abdul Qadir Sediqi, James Mackenzie KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan police and volunteer groups of armed civilians tightened controls across the capital Kabul on Wednesday ahead of Ashura, the […]
Source: Associated Press By NICOLE WINFIELD VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis decreed on Tuesday that ordinary Catholics should be consulted about issues facing the Catholic Church and that bishops […]