Israel begins telling African migrants to leave
By AFP – Feb 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel began warning thousands of African migrants on Sunday that they must leave by the end of March, officials […]
Dental Care in Islamic Medical Science: Muhammad al-Aqkirmani (d. 1760) and his Risalah fi hukm al-Siwak
By: Mykhaylo Yakubovych Most of the oldest Muslim treatises on Siwak remain in a manuscript form. However, similar works on this issue have also appeared in later periods… Figure 1. Article Image Banner Dental care in Islamic history Figure 2. An illustration of Salvadora persica (Source) Among the corpus […]
Introduction to Turkish Motifs in Ottoman Times
By: Sairah Yassir-Deane On 13 and 14 January 2018 Ashfia Ashrif, Manchester based Artist and Student of Traditional Arts, delivered a two day course named “Introduction to Turkish Motifs in Ottoman Times” at FSTC House. Figure 1. Image collage from the weekend course ©Sairah On 13 and 14 January 2018 […]
Myanmar exodus : Switzerland to provide extra CHF12 million for displaced Rohingya
This content was published on February 5, 2018 Billboards in Dhaka welcome the Swiss president who is on a four-day state visit to Bangladesh (Keystone) President Alain Berset has announced […]
Arab refugees march in German city hit by far-right protests
Reuters International This content was published on February 3, 2018 People hold German flags as they attend a demonstration against migrants in Cottbus, Germany February 3, 2018. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke (reuters_tickers) By Joseph Nasr COTTBUS, Germany (Reuters) – Arab refugees and Germans carrying pro-immigrant and anti-fascism placards marched in Cottbus on […]
Battle over bodies rages quietly in Iraq’s Mosul long after Islamic State defeat
. Reuters International This content was published on February 5, 2018 Local residents carry bodies taken from the rubble in the Old City of Mosul, Iraq January 17, 2018. Picture […]
Coping with the complex security challenges
Feb 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Al Sabaileh The vacuum left by the recent fall of Daesh is being filled by new terror groups, who are forming and developing networks through existing criminal groups in order to raise money and transport weapons. This has led to an increase in […]
Syria Christians hold first prayer in years in ravaged Deir Ezzor church
Residents slowly trickle back to the city after recapture from Daesh By AFP – Feb 04,2018 – JORDAN TIMES Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch, Ignatius Aphrem II, gives a sermon […]
Book Review: Ibn Khaldun – An Intellectual History
Source: Princeton University Press By Robert Irwin, who is a senior research associate at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London and a former lecturer at the University […]
Video: London Caliph has a message for the whole humanity, including Trump
Source: IBTimes UK Newsweek interviews Caliph of Ahmadi Muslims on wars, persecutions and the meaning of religion today.
Ancient Priestess’ 4,400-Year-Old Tomb Is Discovered in Egypt
Source: Travel and Leisure The tomb was covered in well-preserved and rare paintings By LISA MARIE SEGARRA FEBRUARY 03, 2018 Archeologists have uncovered the tomb of an ancient priestess in Egypt. […]
France jails Islamic scholar on rape charge
Source: CNN (CNN) Islamic scholar and TV analyst Tariq Ramadan has been arrested in Paris and charged with rape, a judicial source told CNN. Ramadan, 55, was arrested on Wednesday, charged Friday and will remain in custody in France until his next hearing, the source said. The arrest of the Oxford […]
Prostate cancer deaths overtake those from breast cancer
Source: BBC News The number of men dying from prostate cancer has overtaken female deaths from breast cancer for the first time in the UK, figures show. An ageing population […]
China accuses US of ‘Cold War mentality’ over nuclear policy
Source: BBC News China has urged the US to drop its “Cold War mentality” after Washington said it planned to diversify its nuclear armoury with smaller bombs. “The country that […]
Plan to save Europe’s synagogues receives high-profile backing
Source: The Guardian BY Harriet Sherwood Simon Schama, Howard Jacobson and Natasha Kaplinsky among supporters of campaign to protect Jewish heritage Its gothic twin turrets and stained-glass window featuring a […]
German women in fear: New anti-rape pants sell out very quickly
By VOICE OF EUROPE 3 February 2018 Image: CEN TwitterFacebookPrintMore950 Oberhausen – A bitter experience got entrepreneur Sandra Seilz (42) the idea of a device that might protect women from sexual assault in the future. Whilst out jogging, Sandra was attacked by three drunk men, who tried to tear her pants off. The brave […]
Réunion island and the ‘stolen children’ of France
In March 2018, a French government-appointed commission will outline what happened to more than 2,000 children at the hands of the French state between 1963 and 1982. These children, from the island of Réunion, a French overseas department, were resettled in rural parts of France where populations were in decline. […]
Gunman targets African migrants in Italy’s Macerata
Crime scene investigators at work after a shooting in Macerata, Italy [Carotti Nest/EPA] A gunman has injured six African migrants in the Italian city of Macerata in a series of […]
‘Russian pilot killed after Syria rebels down plane’
By AFP – Feb 03,2018 – JORDAN TIMES This photo taken on Saturday shows smoke billows from the site of a downed Sukhoi-25 fighter jet in the Syrian city of […]
global training: Switzerland pledges extra funds for education in developing world
This content was published on February 3, 2018 4:06 PMFeb 3, 2018 – 16:06 Knowledge is power: a classroom in the Philippines. (Keystone) Switzerland has announced it is stepping […]