Religion May 20, 20187:27 AM ET Heard on Weekend Edition Sunday NPR’s Lulu Garcia-Navarro talks to Makkah Ali and Ikhlas Saleem, co-hosts of the Identity Politics podcast, about what its like to observe Ramadan in the American workplace. LULU GARCIA-NAVARRO, HOST: Muslims all around the world began to observe […]
Ramadan 2018: The starters of Iftar calls for a special mention for their sheer richness and flavour. One of our favourite Iftar staples are the melt-in mouth kebabs and tikkas. […]
The members of a large Palestinian clan dream of escaping Gaza and going back to their homeland, the village of Ni’ilya. For 70 years, they’ve been imagining this return […]
By Reuters – May 21,2018 – JORDAN TIMES This handout photo released by the Iraqi prime minister’s press office on Sunday shows Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi meeting with […]
By Reuters – May 21,2018 – ORDAN TIMES Soldiers loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Assad forces are deployed at Al Qadam area near Yarmouk Palestinian camp in Damascus, Syria, on April 29 (Reuters photo) BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian troops fought on Sunday to crush the last pockets of resistance […]
Source: The Guardian By Bernard Avishai Behind the seemingly intractable Palestinian conflict lie deeper questions about what Israel wants to be: an ‘open’ globalised democracy or a ‘closed’ Jewish state […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The broader Sunni Shia conflict, with Saudi Arabia in one corner and Iran in the other, is no […]
Source: Dawn United States (US) President Donald Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Sunday discussed North Korea’s recent threats to cancel its unprecedented summit with Washington, Seoul’s presidential office said. After weeks of warm words and diplomatic backslapping, Pyongyang abruptly threatened to pull out of the planned summit […]
‘Ultimately, the person who pays, gets to choose the music’ Israeli Defense minister lambastes international ‘festival of hypocrisy’ on Gaza violence, says Israel taking ‘concrete steps’ to improve humanitarian situation […]
The unspoilt island offers western buyers exciting opportunities but it is also developing a ‘sharia tourism’ industry Dan F Stapleton August 11, 2017 The Indonesian island being hailed as “the […]
Suggested reading by the Muslim Times: Why the Muslim World Needs to Follow Pope Francis? By Vela Andapita The Jakarta Post Jakarta | Sun, May 20, 2018 | An unidentified […]
Report examined findings of 26 royal commissions and inquiries from Australia, Ireland, the UK, Canada and Netherlands Melissa Davey @MelissaLDavey Wed 13 Sep 2017 A comprehensive study found mandatory celibacy […]
Council for Interreligious Dialogue aims to eradicate ‘fanatical discourse’ in the name of religion Anne-Bénédicte Hoffner Iraq April 25, 2018 Yazidis take part in a ceremony celebrating Charshama Sor (Red Wednesday), the […]
By Everett Rosenfeld Tuesday, Aug. 02, 2011 Mohammad Sajjad / AP After fasting through the day, Sunni Muslims may break their fast as soon as the daily maghrib prayer begins, […]
By Azadeh Moaveni Abdul Azis via Getty Images The father-in-law of the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, a chauvinistic Sunni who aggressively persecuted his country’s Shiites and laid the grounds […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla A Tennessee man has pleaded guilty to using strips of bacon and anti-Muslim graffiti to vandalize an Islamic center in his state. Charles […]
Source: The Jerusalem Post Long-awaited draft legislation on Jewish conversion which is set to be presented to the prime minister in the next few days appears to be doomed to […]
Source: The Washington Post Brutally long working hours are not just the preserve of Japanese office workers and laborers. Now, a Buddhist monk who works at a temple on the […]
Source: Associated Press By ASHRAF SWEILAM and FARES AKRAM GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Palestinians resumed their fiery protests at Gaza’s border with Israel on Friday as a U.N. […]
Source: Reuters JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesian prosecutors on Friday sought the death penalty for radical Islamic cleric Aman Abdurrahman who is on trial accused of masterminding a series of attacks, […]