Lone woman elected to Oman council
MUSCAT – The Majlis A’Shura 7th Term elections saw only one out of 77 women candidates being elected to the 84-seat council. The previous term did not have any woman representative. Read more
Expat women struggle for rights granted by religion
Indian, Pakistani and Filipino women are afraid to speak about their suffering marriages in public due to the social stigma related to divorce. They feel they lack credibility in comparison to men. Mahira Tahir, a 38-year-old Indian living in Jeddah, told Arab News, “My first fear is that I will […]
G20 finance chiefs back Europe bank rescue
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — Finance ministers from the world’s largest economies pledged Saturday to take “all necessary actions” to stabilize global financial markets and ensure that banks are well capitalized. “We will ensure that banks are adequately capitalized and have sufficient access to funding to deal with the current crisis,” […]
Indonesia: The tragicomedy of a food-rich country
They live in a world of plenty, but one in seven will go hungry today Enough crops can be grown to feed the planet. But spiralling grain prices, stock market speculation, climate change and corrupt and failing governments have left almost a billion people facing starvation. Amid the democratic euphoria […]
Tel Aviv joins global social justice protests
By BEN HARTMAN Several hundred gather at Tel Aviv Museum plaza where opinions are voiced in “Hyde Park” speakers corner; protest held on Rothschild. Tel Aviv on Saturday joined hundreds of cities across the globe holding “October 15” demonstrations, focused on a message of greater economic equality and opportunity, and […]
Europe: Integrating Islam
Source / Courtesy: Council on Foreign Relations Author: Toni Johnson, Senior Staff Writer Updated: July 25, 2011 Since 9/11, Western Europe’s growing Muslim population has been the focus of debate on issues ranging from immigration policy to cultural identity to security. Several incidents in recent years have increased tensions between […]
300-year-old house to be preserved in museum after surviving tsunami
MINAMISANRIKU, Miyagi Pref. — A house more than 300 years old on the Miyagi Prefecture coast that barely withstood the March earthquake and tsunami will be relocated all the way to Kagawa Prefecture, where it will be restored in a museum. Silk producer Shigeyuki Endo, the 61-year-old owner of the […]
Hundreds turn out to ‘Occupy Tokyo’
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Democracy – an inventory
With the camp-in on Wall Street, public anger over the crisis has ended up covering the entire political and geographic arc from Greece to the United States. At first glance, the two cases seem to have little in common. While the Greece of Papandreou is in crisis due to an […]
Mauritius the best-governed country in Africa, again
Mauritius has again, for the fifth year in a row, finished on top of the Ibrahim Index of African Governance. Mo Ibrahim The Index, compiled by the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, supports good governance and leadership in Africa. The four categories of governance as assessed by the Index are: Safety […]
Unsupervised calls before marriage not OK: Al-Nujaimi
By RIMA AL-MUKHTAR | ARAB NEWS JEDDAH: An Islamic preacher has denied telling an online publication that Islam does not prohibit unsupervised phone calls between young women and men before they get engaged. Sheikh Mohammad Al-Nujaimi was reported to have told online publication Awj that it is fine for an […]
Roman Orthodox school, community centre to be built in Ajloun village
JORDAN TIMES AMMAN (Petra) – Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem Theophilus III on Saturday laid the foundation stone of a community centre and a Roman Orthodox school in Wahdana village in Ajloun. During a visit to the governorate, the patriarch reiterated the need to enhance the concepts of tolerance, harmony, […]
Offering support
The Jordanian government decided to send a large delegation of officials and business leaders to Libya to offer support for its reconstruction, a move that is necessary, even if it came a bit late in the hour.The minister of industry and trade will head the delegation – hefty from the […]
Qur’an Open House in Brockville
Source: The Recorder and Times A Muslim youth group that has visited 190 communities in Canada since last fall to promote peace and condemn terrorism will stop for a four hour open house on the Holy Qur’an this saturday at the Brockville Public Library. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of […]
Arabs are rewriting their own narrative
By Rami G. Khouri, The Daily Star, Beirut, Lebanon I had the pleasure this week of speaking at the Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies at Tufts University on a panel titled “Continuing Tensions in the Levant.” The panel made me realize two related things. First, all major players in […]
IPU to review role in Arab and Islamic countries
By MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Shoura Council Chairman Abdullah Al-Asheikh has said a key Inter-Parliamentary Union meeting will review its role in Arab and Islamic countries in maintaining peace and security in the region. The 125th Assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union will be held in the Swiss capital […]
Egypt’s military rulers ban discrimination
By ASSOCIATED PRESS ARABNEWS CAIRO: Egypt’s transitional military rulers have issued a decree prohibiting all forms of discrimination, including on the basis of religion. The step comes about a week after 26 people were killed in clashes involving minority Coptic Christian protesters, the military and others. It was the worst […]
One State for All?
By Robert Patton Can you imagine being born in a refugee camp, living out your entire life in the camp, and finally dying there. Yet this is what a good many Palestinians have experienced. More than sixty years ago, innocent people were uprooted from their homes and forced to live […]
Indonesia the eighth largest exporter of Sea pearls
Indonesia is looking to ramp up its production of South Sea pearls to 7 million tons from 5.7 million tons in 2010, and says it has the potential to produce up to 20 million tons a year. The country is only using about 28 percent of its pearl cultivation potential […]
Indonesia’s Growing Confidence
Although there are some uncertainties, the Indonesian economy is well placed for what will now almost certainly be a sharp downturn in the world economy. Foreign reserves were at a record high at just under US$120 billion at the end of the second quarter, inflation was down to below 5 […]