by Samuel Jaberg, swissinfo.ch More than ten million people are caught up in the Horn of Africa crisis sparked by the worst drought in decades and compounded by intense fighting in Somalia. In refugee camps in Dadaab in Kenya – where nearly 400,000 people are crammed together with more arriving […]
By SHEYMA BUALI, LIFE.SYLLE@ARABNEWS.COM London’s three-week long Shubbak festival of contemporary Arab culture opened on Monday on a strong note from Tamer Abou Ghazaleh, Zeid Hamdan and Maryam Saleh, performing together for the first time in Europe. The first week of Shubbak sped by with music, history, film and literature […]
By MAHA AKEEL, LIFE.STYLE@ARABNEWS.COM This book answers the question: What has the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), recently renamed as the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, done in the past 40 years of its existence? It courageously addresses some existential questions of its relevance and place in today’s complicated, interconnected […]
By BADEA ABU AL-NAJA | ARAB NEWS MAKKAH: Incest is becoming a noticeable problem in Saudi society. There are various reasons why male relatives, especially guardians, sexually abuse the girls in their families. Experts feel that the growing incidence of this scourge is largely due to the victims’ families not […]
I am just wondering whether the readers are tired to read every day similar News of unrest in Syria, for instance… but the struggle continues… Syrians call for civil disobedience By REUTERS ISTANBUL: Syrians should wage a campaign of civil disobedience to try to force President Bashar Assad from power, […]
By SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS ISTANBUL: In what can rightly be described as a seminal step in relations between the Muslim world and the Western world, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation and the leading nations of the Western world led by the United States and the European Union agreed Saturday to […]
Source: Times of India. More: JERUSALEM: Israel is certainly planning to launch an attack on Iran before the September General Assembly vote on Palestine, and also hoping to draw the US into the war, a longtime CIA officer who has spent 21 years in the Middle East believes. Robert Baer […]
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Source: iTunes University iTunes U — a powerful distribution system for everything from lectures to language lessons, films to labs, audiobooks to tours — is an innovative way to get educational content into the hands of students Imagine students touring archaeological sites, watching historical footage, or studying the sound of […]
Source: National Public Radio (NPR) Police wearing berets and bulletproof vests broke down the door of a Guatemala City apartment in February hunting for illegal drugs. Instead, they found a different kind of illicit shipment: 27 immigrants from India packed into two locked rooms. The Indians, whose hiding space was […]
Source: The Express Tribune Three bomb blasts took place in Mumbai on July 13, killing 21, but so far the India-Pakistan equation has not derailed. The recent trend of improving relations was positive for a change, and so it was feared that someone might try to ruin it by striking again in […]
Source: International business Times: An unknown number of Indonesians were photographed voluntarily laying down on railway tracks- not to protest anything, or because of a death wish, but because they believe that the electrical current from the tracks can cure a number of ailments. Residents of all ages – […]
Source: Jakarta Post Indonesian and Mali envoys took on the US congress on Thursday to showcase that democracy is alive and functioning in their Muslim-majority nations, defying the widely held view in the West, and in some quarters in the Muslim world, that Islam and democracy clashed with one another. […]
Source: ynetnews.com Dozens of members of Council of Progressive Rabbis sign ‘manifesto’ calling controversial bill adopted by Knesset ‘a dangerous move unlike any other, which repeatedly erodes Israel’s Jewish character’ Dozens of Reform rabbis have signed a “manifesto” against the boycott bill adopted by the Knesset this week and are […]
Source: haaretz.com “The will of Israel” does not derive from civilian, minority-majority norms, nor is it based on a constitution that guarantees minority rights and defines when a minority has the option to rise up against the government. Instead, “the will of Israel” derives from an ultra-nationalist version of the […]
You can only know that non-Muslims also exist in Pakistan if you come into direct contact with one, not otherwise. PHOTO: AFP Source/Credit: The Express Tribune: http://blogs.tribune.com.pk A lot has been written about the plight of minorities in Pakistan– some by minorities themselves but mostly by the majority. In most such […]
Kerry in Kabul, with a rug given to him by the governor of Balkh province.John Kerry surprised a lot of people when he endorsed Barack Obama for president in early 2008. Kerry was a longtime friend of Obama’s chief rival, Hillary Clinton. He had served in the Senate for […]
Source/Credit: Newyorktimes. I hope you had the chance to read and reread Dudley Clendinen’s splendid essay, “The Good Short Life,” in The Times’s Sunday Review section. Clendinen is dying of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or A.L.S. If he uses all the available medical technology, it will leave him, in a few […]
Source/Credit: Newyork Times: The widespread use of search engines and online databases has affected the way people remember information, researchers are reporting. More:
Source/Credit: Times of India. WASHINGTON: Astronauts aboard the International Space Station got a very long-distance call on Friday from US President Barack Obama, who joked that he thought he was dialing out for pizza. Hot from giving a press conference at which he pushed Republicans to reach a deal on […]