Study in Germany: ‘Many universities teach classes in English’
In the latest instalment of My German Career, The Local spoke with Arpan Kava, who, after coming to Berlin to do a Masters degree in engineering, stayed for the career […]
US seeks to take Press TV off air in western Afghanistan
The United States continues to build up its pressure on Iran’s English-language news network Press TV and in a new move has sought to pull the Tehran-based television channel off […]
Know your history: Spain’s Forgotten Muslims – The Expulsion of the Moriscos
One of the truly tragic events in Islamic history is the loss of al-Andalus, or Muslim Spain. For centuries, the Iberian Peninsula was a Muslim land with Muslim rulers and […]
Lost in the desert: Border Guard rescues 2 Emiratis from Empty Quarter
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 30 June 2013 The Border Guard rescued two United Arab Emirates (UAE) citizens who lost their way deep in the Rub Al-Khali (Empty Quarter) desert recently. […]
Emirati Project to aid 30,000 Pakistan families in Ramadan
The food assistance worth over $1.5 million will be distributed in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province WAMPublished: 18:21 June 29, 2013Gulf News Swat, Pakistan: Acting upon the directives of the President His Highness Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the team overseeing implementation of the UAE project to help Pakistan have announced […]
If it’s like father, like son, Qatar’s Emir Tamim will certainly be no pushover – The nation he built is a flea which happily bites any great power that gets in its way
by Robert Fisk, The Independent Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani is nobody’s fool. The Emir of Qatar did not step down in favour of his son Tamim because of his health, although a gastric bypass operation had drastically reduced his weight. So much had his appearance changed – so much […]
Saudi businesswomen seek level-playing field
RIYADH: MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS STAFF Sunday 30 June 2013 A new set of proposals have been unveiled to encourage Saudi women’s business projects. Saudi businesswomen face a series […]
Attacks from America: NSA Spied on European Union Offices
America’s NSA intelligence service allegedly targeted the European Union with its spying activities. According to SPIEGEL information, the US placed bugs in the EU representation in Washington and infiltrated its […]
Chaos and Crime: The Trials of Running a Syrian Refugee Camp
By Takis Würger SPIEGEL.DE Local mafia controls a Jordanian camp housing over 100,000 war refugees from Syria. A German aid worker competing with these criminals is determined to preserve the […]
World Muslim Leader Opens Annual Convention in Germany
Source: Press Release Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad opens Annual Convention with Friday Sermon The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad opened the three-day Jalsa Salana Germany with a faith inspiring Friday Sermon on 28 June 2013 in the city of Karlsruhe. During […]
Problems of the Second Generation: To be Young, Muslim, and American
By: Peter Skerry The Boston Marathon bombings highlighted, once again, the challenges of assimilating Muslim youth. And while the onus of accountability ought not rest exclusively on Muslim Americans, it understandably weighs most heavily on them. Indeed, any fair-minded assessment of recent events must underscore the inadequacies of Muslim-American leaders. […]
Who Guards The Most Sacred Site In Christendom? Two Muslims
By Gabriele Barbati on March 29 2013 International Business Times JERUSALEM — Every Christian knows the holiest places in Christendom are in Jerusalem. The holiest of all, the Church of […]
THE TALIBAN’S LIFE OF LUXURY
IS AFGHANISTAN DESTINED TO BE RUN BY A DRUG MAFIA? by Noorullah Shirzada—AFP Pashtunabad—a poor, wind- and fly-blown suburb of Quetta—is the type of Pakistani town where commanders in the […]
First photos of German Annual Convention
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad opens Annual Convention with Friday Sermon The World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat and Fifth Khalifa, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad opened the three-day Jalsa Salana […]
Jalsa Kababir- Latest Pictures
Source Twitter Mayor of Kababir to grace the jalsa Ameer Sahib Kababir answering the press
Muslim peace conference draws 5,000+ on first of three days in Harrisburg
Watch sessions live in high definition in Alislam.org Day one coverage is available in Youtube now. Source of News: Pennlive.com: by Emily Previti. The most important activities offered during the entire three-day affair probably are the facilitated group discussions about the prophet Muhammad, the foundations of Islam and the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Acknowledging a historic massacre of Muslims, 45 years later, Philippine peace may finally have a chance
President Aquino builds trust by acknowledging a historic massacre of Muslims. ENLARGE Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) rebels stand guard as their chief Murad Ebrahim (not pictured) holds a press conference inside camp on the southern island of Mindanao in October 2012. A framework agreement signed by President Benigno Aquino […]
Blasphemy convict: Aasia Bibi’s appeal at least two years away
ET: LAHORE: Aasia Bibi, the Christian woman on death row whose blasphemy conviction was decried as unjust by slain former governor Salmaan Taseer, faces a wait of at least another two years behind bars before her appeal is likely to come up before the Lahore High Court. Bibi, 45, has […]
Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal
Epigraph: “But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow in the […]
McDonald’s strikes a blow for legitimacy (may be the first positive News from McDonald!)
STORY SUMMARY by Rami Khouri, The Daily Star, Lebanon First, any just and mutually agreed permanent peace accord between Israelis and Palestinians will have to return all the territories occupied in 1967 to the Palestinians (with mutually agreed land swaps in some cases). Second, this can only be achieved when […]