Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – George S. Hishmeh There is no doubt that the eight-column headline in the sports page of The Washington Post last Sunday was remarkable and unprecedented: “Palestine Marathon sparks a growing push for movement over politics.” Never before have the American media, certainly not the country’s […]
Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI The New York Times is not only considered the leading newspaper in the United States, it is also something of a bellwether of intellectual and political trends in the country. So it was noteworthy that the newspaper’s Monday opinion page feature […]
Refuge cities: The sympathy of last autumn towards asylum-seeking minors in the Gothenburg suburb of Mölndal has been drowned out by anger and suspicion – but the city is working […]
One evening Mulla Nasruddin quarrelled with his wife and shouted at her so fiercely that she fled for refuge to a neighbouring house, where he followed her. As it happened a wedding feast was in progress, and the hosts and guests did all they could to calm him down, and […]
Epigraph: Believers, be the supporters of justice and testify to what you may have witnessed, for the sake of God, even against yourselves, parents, and relatives; whether it be against […]
Source: Financial Times By Sarah O’Connor Employment Correspondent Pity school careers advisers. If economists are to be believed, vast numbers of jobs will have evaporated by the time today’s pupils […]
Source: Dawn By SALTANAT ANSARI She is pursuing a major in International Relations and a minor in Latina/o Studies at Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley. Lahore is my native city — it has always been the dearest sense of love I have felt. It was the beautiful gardens and my most […]
Social April 6, 2016 TEHRAN – The Golden Eagle Danube Express luxury train, carrying 74 tourists from the U.S., the Netherlands, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Australia, arrived in the northwestern Iranian city of Tabriz on Tuesday. The tourists paid visits to Azarbaijan Museum, Blue Mosque, and Grand Bazaar and […]
Source: Associated Press BY KATHY GANNON ISLAMABAD (AP) — Tackling extremism is a political minefield in Pakistan, where politicians openly consort with leaders of banned militant groups and sympathy exists […]
Source: The New York Times By DIAA HADID JERUSALEM — It was a typical day at the shrine around what many believe is the tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem’s Old […]
Source: BBC Former French far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen has been fined 30,000 euros (£24,000; $34,000) for calling the Nazi gas chambers a “detail” of World War Two. He was […]
Source: Associated Press AMMAN, Jordan — The first Syrian family to be resettled in the U.S. under a speeded-up “surge operation” for refugees left Jordan on Wednesday for Kansas City, […]
Ted Hakey, a former Marine, knelt in prayer, his forehead on the floor, beside his Muslim neighbors inside their Connecticut mosque last Saturday. The enormity of that gesture was lost on no one. Ted Hakey hugs Zahir Mannan at the Baitul Aman ‘House of Peace’ Mosque following a program at […]
NO STATUS http://tp.srgssr.ch/p/inline?urn=urn:swi:video:42046214 EMBED CODE APR 4, 2016 – 15:45 Sometimes asylum seekers go underground, as they have no hope of getting official refugee status. They’re known as “sans papiers” (without papers). (SRF/swissinfo.ch) Asylum is only granted to those who face persecution or imprisonment in their country of origin for […]
By Reuters – Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES Palestinian children gather in a playground during a celebration for Palestinian Child Day, in the West Bank town of Salfit on Tuesday (AP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — A far-right Israeli politician has been admonished by his party and roundly condemned by […]
By Khetam Malkawi – Apr 07,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Syrian family is escorted at the airport to catch a flight to the US, where they will have a refugee status as part of a programme to host 10,000 Syrians in America, on Wednesday (Photo by Osama Aqarbeh) […]
Voices As the journalist Wolfgang Bauer reminds us, the Syrian people witness the horrors of the Paris and Brussels attacks every single day Robert Fisk @indyvoices 11 comments The most relevant newspaper cartoon on the asylum story popped up on the front page of The Irish Times this week, for […]
Epigraph: Do they say, ‘He has forged it?’ Say, ‘Bring then a Surah like unto it, and call for help on all you can besides Allah, if you are truthful.’ […]
The Mulla went to see a rich man. ‘Give me some money.’ ‘Why?’ ‘I want to buy … an elephant.’ ‘If you have no money, you can’t afford to keep an elephant’. ‘I came here’, said Mullah Nasrudin, ‘to get money, not advice.’
Epigraph: Those who believe, then disbelieve, then again believe, then disbelieve, and then increase in disbelief, Allah will never forgive them nor will He guide them to the way. (Al […]