Too late, yet welcome
Source: Business Recorder, Pakistan’s Premier Financial Daily By Dr. Maqsudul Hasan Nuri: The writer is presently Head of Department of International Relations, NUML, and former Adviser at COMSATS Institute of […]
Video: Microsoft Celebrates the Spirit of the Season; Refuting Islamophobia
Microsoft Celebrates the Spirit of the Season Source: Huffington Post and Youtube By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Microsoft’s 2016 holiday advertisement celebrates the accomplishments of ordinary people who worked […]
Dalai Lama’s abode turning into concrete jungle
Experts fear a high-intensity quake can turn this quaint uphill town into a tomb of rubble Image Credit: Agency Ganj resort village overcast day. Himalaya, North India Published: 18:00 January […]
Saudi likely to tap multiple funding sources to bridge budget gap
External borrowings vital for reducing pressure on domestic liquidity Published: 13:05 January 1, 2017 Babu Das Augustine, Banking Editor Dubai: In the absence of further increase in oil prices and or drastic cut in government expenditures, analysts expect Saudi Arabia’s budget gap to be wider than the original estimates […]
For poor Algerians, mass weddings a chance to celebrate
By AFP – Jan 02,2017 – JORDAN TIMES Algerian women sing during a group wedding ceremony, organised by a charity for economically disadvantaged people and orphans, in the Sahara desert village of In-Salah, south Algeria, on December 21, 2016 (AFP photo) AIN SALAH, Algeria — Gathered in a […]
Hope, at last?
Jan 02,2017 – JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL The UN Security Council on Saturday unanimously adopted a resolution that supports the Russian-Turkish peace initiative for Syria, which includes maintaining the recently declared ceasefire and projected talks in the capital of Kazakhstan, Astana. The resolution could be the very breakthrough sought by the […]
Reunification of Syria
Jan 02,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Gwynne Dyer So far the endgame in Syria has played out in an entirely predictable way. All of Aleppo is back in the Syrian government’s hands; that decisive victory for President Bashar Assad and his Russian backers has been followed by a ceasefire, and the […]
Speed of Light – Space Documentary
The speed of light in vacuum, commonly denoted c, is a universal physical constant important in many areas of physics. Its exact value is 299792458 metres per second (approximately 3.00×108 m/s, approximately […]
Becoming Human: First Steps – NOVA Documentary
The Muslim Times is promoting guided evolution and we have a large collection of articles about evolution in general and guided evolution in particular.
More than 1,000 migrants storm border at Spain’s Ceuta
Source: Aljazeera More than 1,000 migrants tried to jump a high double fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on Sunday in a violent assault that saw one […]
Uganda’s School for Life: Educating out of Poverty
Source: Aljazeera This film will be available online from January 23, 2017. In the 21st century, for many young people “finding a job” is just not an option. And in […]
Party-goers dump 85 tonnes of rubbish on London’s streets after New Year celebrations
Source: MSN.com By Fiona Simpson A spectacular 85 tonnes of waste and around 15,000 Champagne bottles were cleared from the banks of the Thames after one million revellers gathered to welcome […]
British woman jailed in Iran released from solitary confinement
Source: The Guardian BY Damien Gayle A British-Iranian woman being held in an Iranian prison has been released from solitary confinement, her husband has said. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, 37, was sentenced […]
The true meaning of life
Source: BBC By Josh Gabbatiss 2 January 2017 Most of us probably do not need to think too hard to distinguish living things from the “non-living”. A human is alive; […]
How to fight terrorism in the Donald Trump era
REPORT Daniel L. Byman Friday, December 30 Editor’s Note:Fighting terrorism has been at the top of the U.S. national-security agenda since 9/11, but the terrorism threat, and thus the appropriate means of counterterrorism, is often grossly misunderstood. Donald Trump must understand the changing nature of terrorism, revise U.S. policy in the […]
India showing the way to the West: Religion or race cannot be used to seek votes in elections
India Supreme Court bans election appeals using religion or caste Source: BBC The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that politicians cannot use religion or caste to seek votes. “Religion has […]
Syria Will Stain Obama’s Legacy Forever
The arc of history is long, but it won’t ever judge the president’s Syria policy kindly. BY DAVID GREENBERG DECEMBER 29, 2016 Barack Obama’s impending departure from the White House has put many Americans in an elegiac mood. Despite an average approval rating of only 48 percent — the lowest, […]
Reporting Behind Enemy Lines in Mosul
DISPATCH Reporting Behind Enemy Lines in Mosul Omar al-Jubory believed the world needed to know what life was like under the Islamic State. He barely got out alive. BY DAVID KENNER JANUARY 2, 2017 Omar al-Jubory began his career as a journalist in the deep end — covering the most […]
13 Powerful Essays From Progressive People Of Faith In 2016
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Required reading for people of faith who are going into 2017 fighting. It’s been a tough year for America’s progressive faith community. […]
The ten flops of democracy in 2016
TRUMP, BREXIT The ten flops of democracy in 2016 By Claude Longchamp, founder and chairman of the GfS Bern research instituteReuse article DEC 26, 2016 Donald Trump won the race for US president even though his Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton obtained a majority of votes. The reason is the electoral […]