Under Hagia Sophia: Tunnels shed light on Istanbul mosque’s history
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AA ISTANBUL AUG 29, 2022 – 1:25 PM GMT+3 A view of the tunnels under the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque, in Istanbul, Türkiye, Aug. 29, 2022. (AA […]
Palestinian prisoners demand to be treated with dignity
DAOUD KUTTAB August 29, 2022 Short Url The images of Khalil Awawdeh released last week were jarring. After 178 days of abstaining from food, the body of this protesting Palestinian […]
How to avert Somalia’s impending famine and restore stability
DR. ABDEL AZIZ ALUWAISHEG August 29, 2022 Short Url Al-Qaeda, through its Al-Shabab affiliate, has had a strong presence in Somalia for some time, but this month’s attack on the […]
Iraq on verge of civil war: protestors killed as Sadr quits politics
UPDATE Iraq’s powerful Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr announced his resignation from politics permanently. (File/AFP) Short Url Updated 13 sec ago ARAB NEWS August 29, 2022 Witnesses said earlier that Sadr […]
Democracy in danger
Aug 29,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / James J. Zogby On a US Embassy-sponsored speaking tour in Yemen before its 1993 national elections, I met with the leaders of various political […]
The Ahmadiyya Community. A model for a German Islam?
SWR2 GLAUBEN Die Ahmadiyya Gemeinde – Modell für einen deutschen Islam? STAND 28.8.2022 Von Julia Ley The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community describes itself as the largest Muslim organization in the world […]
After Intolerance Comes Peace
28 August 2022 By: Eka Rizkia Larasati The declaration of 2022 as the year of tolerance by the Ministry of Religion is a breath of fresh air for the Indonesian […]
Evidence-gathering boosts justice chances for Myanmar’s Rohingya
Five years after the Myanmar army crackdown that drove one million Rohingya refugees into neighbouring Bangladesh, they have not been able to return home and have not seen justice. But […]
The (long) wait continues for the UN’s human rights report on Xinjiang
International Geneva Over a year ago the United Nations Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet promised a report on the treatment of China’s Uyghur minority. As she is about to leave […]
World must not abandon the Rohingya to their fate
DR. AZEEM IBRAHIM August 28, 2022 Short Url Last week marked five years since the start of the most recent stage of the genocide in Myanmar against the Rohingya. It […]
Women wearing hijab face discrimination in Egypt: BBC Arabic
Egypt’s constitution prohibits discrimination based on religion, sex, race or social class. (File/AFP) Short Url Updated 28 August 2022 ARAB NEWS August 28, 2022 11 of 15 venues accused of […]
Flood fate of thousands lies with colonial-era Pakistan barrage
By AFP – Aug 29,2022 – JORDAN TIMES Displaced people take refuge along a highway after fleeing from their flood hit homes following heavy monsoon rains in Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday (AFP photo) SUKKUR, Pakistan — The fate of hundreds of thousands of people in Pakistan’s southern Sindh province […]
Pakistan flood victims throw note pleading for help
By Farhat JavedBBC Urdu, Manoor valley Hundreds of people are stranded across the river in the Manoor valley of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province after a flash flood hit the region […]
Pakistan floods: A thousand dead, millions affected by ‘horrors of climate change’
COMMENTS By Euronews with AP • Updated: 28/08/2022 – 20:47 A family sits near their tent surrounded by water, in Sohbat Pur city of Jaffarabad, Sunday 24 August 2022 – Copyright AP Photo/Zahid Hussain Deaths from widespread flooding in Pakistan […]
Afghanistan, the US and Taliban: A story of injustice, terror and vested interests
26th August 2022 Ata-ul-Haye Nasir, Al Hakam 9/11 and its background 11 September 2001, a day that brought a drastic change on the world stage, as it shook the world in […]
BioNTech Founder Uğur Şahin: “The Virus Continues To Mutate at a High Speed”
Interview with BioNTech Founder Uğur Şahin“The Virus Continues to Mutate at a High Speed” We were fortunate that Omicron turned out to be as mild as it has been, says […]
What are the chances of a meeting between Putin and Zelensky?
DR. DIANA GALEEVA August 27, 2022 Short Url Is a meeting likely between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky, the heads of two countries whose crisis […]
Iraq gets deeper and deeper into a political quagmire
HAFED AL-GHWELL August 27, 2022 Short Url Ten months ago, Iraq was on the verge of pulling off a remarkable, albeit improbable, feat after the conclusion of national parliamentary elections. […]
Salman Rushdie attack ‘unacceptable’ to Islam, says MWL chief Al-Issa
Updated 21 August 2022 BY FRANCESCO BONGARRÀ Al-Issa was speaking at the 43rd “Meeting of Friendship Between People” in Rimini, Italy In an interview with Arab News on the side […]
Did the Afghan failure lead to the Ukraine war?
Aug 27,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Carl Bildt STOCKHOLM — Why did the West’s Afghanistan policy fail so spectacularly? Was it doomed from the very beginning, and have any lessons been learned? More to the point, did the end of one 20-year war pave the way for another? One year […]