University of California: by Jim Logan — For Maria Charles, the numbers were plain, but they didn’t add up. Her research into gender segregation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields revealed an odd fact: affluent countries had considerably fewer women in STEM careers than poor ones did. Since […]
UAE GDN Online Desk The Parax Paper stall featuring samples of the first copies of the Holy Quran printed on stone paper, was the centre of attraction on the second day of Paperworld Middle East at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The revolutionary and environmentally-friendly stone […]
By Alexander Smoltczyk and Maurice Weiss Maurice Weiss/ DER SPIEGEL Iman Hassen Chalghoumi at the last station on Paris’ 148 bus line: When he preaches, he has to wear a bullet-proof vest. Day after day, Paris attacker Samy Amimour drove a bus through the city’s notorious banlieues before murdering scores […]
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL By Frédéric Burnand, Geneva MAR 9, 2016 – 17:00 According to Swiss Foreign Minister Didier Burkhalter, the death penalty is not an effective answer to terrorism (Keystone) The newest incarnation of the United Nations’ top human rights body is marking its ten year anniversary, and while the […]
By Reuters – Mar 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A student attends a class inside the Freedom School, in the town of Al Tamanah, in the southern countryside of Idlib, Syria, on Wednesday (Reuters photo) BEIRUT/GENEVA — The Syrian opposition said on Wednesday there had been fewer breaches of […]
By JT – Mar 09,2016 – JORDAN TIMES His Majesty King Abdullah receives a copy of a plan to enhance the human rights situation in Jordan, delivered by Prime Minister Abdullah Ensour, on Wednesday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Wednesday expressed keenness […]
Documents appearing to have been stolen from Isis’ border authority Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden Thursday 3 March 2016 41 comments Anyone passing into Isis territory undergoes stringent checks to weed out potential spies Details of more than a dozen British Isis members are among 22,000 recruits reportedly revealed in a cache of leaked documents […]
Telegraph: London is a more “Islamic” city than much of the Muslim world put together, a leading Muslim scholar has argued. Maulana Syed Ali Raza Rizvi, a prominent Shia cleric, who was born in Pakistan and studied in Iran, said he “feels more Islamic” in Britain than other countries because […]
Egyptian Lawmakers Want to Ban Muslim Women from Covering Their Faces BY Lily Kuo: 08 March 2016 Egyptian lawmakers are pushing for a ban on the Niqab, a veil worn by women that covers most of one’s face, in what has become a fight over personal liberties and the government’s […]
Epigraph: “You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Exodus 22:21 Israel’s Religiously Divided Society Source: Pew Research Forum Deep […]
Source: The Guardian Democrats assailed the amendment as hate masquerading as religious tolerance. Republicans took turns donning a “Beetlejuice”-style jacket on the senate floor. And both sides were invited to […]
Source: BBC A pioneering procedure to regenerate the eye has successfully treated children with cataracts in China. More than half of all cases of blindness are caused by cataracts – […]
Source: The Washington Post ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — During a speech to international business leaders here in late November, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif shocked the country’s powerful religious community by calling […]
Source: The Washington Post In D.C., where Republicans are scarce, Orthodox Jews actually are a large enough contingent to potentially affect the outcome of the GOP’s presidential primary that is scheduled […]
Source: Time ‘Because she is a woman, she has got our support’ U.N. Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka quietly acknowledged that she and U.N. Women support Hillary Clinton’s candidacy for […]
Source: New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama, resigned to his failure to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Palestinians, is looking past his time in office and […]
Source: Time What TIME’s investigation into the real-estate seminars reveals The fate and reputation of Trump University, the adult education courses that carried Donald Trump’s name from 2005 to 2010, […]
Source: Time The White House will host an official state visit for the Canadian Prime Minister this week When President Obama first spoke to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau last […]
Source: Daily Times LAHORE – Shahbaz Taseer – the abducted son of former Punjab governor Salman Taseer – will reach home on Wednesday (today) nearly after a gap of five […]
Can you tell the difference? Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Islamophobia has become frighteningly commonplace in the U.S. There’s a lot of hatred, misinformation and misplaced […]