Jul 17,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby Over a week ago, a pro-Israel media monitoring group accused me of making “an unsubstantiated charge that Israel supporters are responsible” for discrimination, hate crimes, and the political exclusion of Arab Americans. Because this issue is so important to Arab Americans and […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Tyler Speegle,Contributer Husband, dad, serious coffee drinker, and inspirational blogger – Growing up my nightly bedtime routine consisted of pulling down my black leather King James […]
By Rana Husseini – Jul 18,2017 – JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — New regulations issued by the Cabinet on Sunday to regulate the legal age for early marriage for girls drew criticism by activists and women groups in Jordan, with many describing it as a “step backwards”. The regulations replace […]
(Letter in The Independent) Please send your letters to letters@independent.co.uk Letters a day ago 6 comments 2K I applaud The Independent for drawing much needed attention to the worsening humanitarian crisis in war-ravaged Yemen. This poor country is in the grip of man-made cholera; is sitting on the cusp […]
By Jonathan BealeDefence Correspondent, Mosul 9 July 2017 From the sectionMiddle East Even while the Iraqi prime minister was on his way to Mosul to declare the liberation of the city, there was still the occasional sound of gunfire and coalition warplanes flying overhead. Earlier in the morning we saw […]
National BY ABDULLAH NIAZI A Christian man has been booked on accusations of blasphemy and subsequently arrested by the Dinga Police Station in Gujrat. The man, identified as Shehzad, was taken into custody by the Dinga police on the complaint of Nadeem Ahmed, a leading figure in the Tehreek e Tahafuz […]
Source: CNN German Chancellor Angela Merkel has ruled out setting an upper limit on refugees coming to Germany, defying her long-term coalition partner on an issue that threatens to open […]
Source: CNN They tell stories that their lives depend upon. All insist they were shocked and appalled when they learned what ISIS was really like. They are the former brides of ISIS fighters — once lured into living in the so-called caliphate — now stuck between the militants’ crumbling stronghold […]
BBC TrendingGoing in-depth on social media 17 July 2017 Share this with Facebook Share this with Twitter Share this with Messenger Share this with Email Share A crackdown on polygamy has led to an intense online debate in a former Soviet republic. The most recent controversy in Uzbekistan kicked […]
Shoutout to Sonakshi Sinha for slaying at this year’s green carpet. Nargis Fakhri and Katrina Kaif? Not so much. https://images.dawn.com/news/1178014 Shoutout to Sonakshi Sinha for slaying at this year’s green carpet. Nargis Fakhri and Katrina Kaif? Not so much. The Big Apple was lit on Saturday night as Bollywood rolled […]
Jürgen Todenhöfer 18 hrs · Dear friends, are you allowed to speak openly? The destruction of Mosul was also a terror. Over 20.000 civilians were killed by the west and his allies alone in Mosul. But only 2.000 terrorists. For every terrorist, 10 civilians. 10:1. That’s shame number 1. SHAME […]
By Dean Dwyer Last updated Jul 16, 2017 Share A Mass grave of torture victims has been uncovered in Jackson, Mississippi, FBI spokesman Adrian Cartwright said Thursday. “A Mass burial site of many dozens of black men, who had been subjected to brutal torture and [then] murdered, has been found,” Cartwright said. […]
Perspective is everything, especially when it comes to examining your beliefs. Are you a soldier, prone to defending your viewpoint at all costs — or a scout, spurred by curiosity? […]
By Carlo Pisani http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:43323830&locale=en EMBED CODE JUL 14, 2017 Find and execute a design concept that solves a concrete problem, with minimal resources, in one month, inside a transit centre for asylum seekers. That’s the challenge facing students at the Zurich University of the Arts. (Carlo Pisani, swissinfo.ch) […]
Jul 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Amer Sabaileh A few months ago when Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries took a stand against Qatar, it was clear that the crisis is not a short-term one. The countries involved have a long history of conflict with Qatar, including recent attempts to influence their […]
By Reuters – Jul 16,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Children walk at a camp for displaced people who fled fighting in the Daesh stronghold of Raqqa, in Ain Issa, Syria, on Friday (Reuters file photo) BEIRUT — The Syrian army backed by heavy Russian air strikes seized a string […]
Likewise, the reason people came around to the idea of voting for Jeremy Corbyn is different to what you might intuitively think Slavoj Zizek 31 comments How to account for the strange fact that Donald Trump, a lewd and morally destitute person, the very opposite of Christian decency, can function […]
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
Source: TheQuran.Love Here are some details from the Homepage and About Us page of the website: The very first verse of the Holy Quran is, “I begin in the name […]
In 2014 Mirzakhani was one of four winners of the Fields Medal, which is presented every four years and is considered the mathematics equivalent of the Nobel Prize Image Credit: […]