Preventing future food security crises in the Arab world
TURKI FAISAL AL-RASHEED September 01, 2022 Short Url History repeats itself and, after more than a decade, food security is again at the top of the agenda of governments worldwide, […]
Revealed: ‘Worrying and outdated’ stereotypes color Western perceptions of the Arab world
SPECIAL An important new survey highlights the gulf between Western perceptions of the the Arab world and the reality of the region. (AFP) Short Url https://arab.news/5wquu Updated 18 sec ago […]
“Orientalism” and minority groups in West Asia and North Africa
by Neil Joseph NakkashDecember 7, 2021 Since 1978, “Orientalism,” by late Palestinian-American academic Edward Said, has served as the basis for many academic courses focused on West Asia and North Africa. […]
Perception shift needed to end ‘clash of civilizations’ mentality
Author December 21, 2020 Short Url https://arab.news/c3za3 The year 2020 demonstrated, once again, that the relationship between the Western and the Arab and Muslim worlds remains muddled, complicated by lingering […]
The Hashimites and the Great Arab Revolt: The Promise and Betrayal of Arabia
MAGAZINE: EDITION AUGUST 2020 Dr Bilal Tahir ISLAMIC HISTORY 1st October 2020 Dr Bilal Ahmed Tahir, Sheffield, UK Introduction The Ottoman Empire ruled much of the Arab World for […]
Book Review: Gulf Crisis and the New World Order – by Hadhrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad
The Gulf Crisis and the New World Order – January 1, 1992 by Hazrat Mirza Tahir Ahmad (Author) Hardcover from $5.83 Editorial Reviews The Gulf Crisis and the New World […]
Killing a people’s heritage is the weapon of choice among dictators
Trump, in his warmongering stupor, has proposed the same destruction dictators have used for centuries: ‘culturecide’, where future generations must grieve for their very essence, writes Robert Fisk @indyvoices 19 […]
How European scholars first encountered the Arab world
Seeking to refute Islam, they gathered books from the Middle East, and almost despite themselves came to a greater respect for its civilisation Culture Mar 6th 2018 The Republic […]
Conference on challenges facing Muslim Ummah kicks off in Istanbul
ANADOLU AGENCY ISTANBUL AK Party Istanbul deputy and Turkey-Palestine Inter-Parliamentary Friendship Group Chairman Hasan Turan speaks at the “International Conference on the Muslim Ummah” in Istanbul on Oct. 14, […]
‘From Cairo to Goldberg’
May 02,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby Earlier this month, “The Atlantic” magazine featured a cover story, “The Obama Doctrine”, written by Jeffery Goldberg. Based on the author’s many hours of interviews with President Barack Obama, the story represents an attempt to find a coherent framework with which […]
Finding ourselves playing the mediator
By Talat Masood Published: January 19, 2016 rime Minister Nawaz Sharif meets Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran on January 19, 2016. PHOTO: PM OFFICE The current toxic rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran is another manifestation of the deep decay that has set in the Muslim world. The two […]
TURKEY AND INDONESIA AS MODELS OF DEMOCRATIC STATE FOR THE MUSLIM WORLD
by Hilmi Gashi Should the state remain neutral with regard to religious matters? Should Muslims have the right to religious freedom – including the right to disbelief? How significant are the Turkish and Indonesian models of secular democratic governance to the transitional states of the Muslim world and Middle East? […]
Prepare for the Middle East’s version of the Thirty Years’ War
Summary It is a region wracked by religious struggle between competing traditions of the faith. Conflicts take place within and between states; civil wars and proxy wars become impossible to distinguish. That could be a description of today’s Middle East. In the Middle East in 2011, change came after a […]
America faces a changed Middle East
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY Much of the discussion in the U.S. about President Barack Obama’s trip to the Middle East next week centers around whether he will initiate any new diplomatic moves on Arab-Israeli peacemaking, and what he might say about Iran and the continuing […]