Added by Mehssen Macary on 23 septembre 2014. The huge area of dry grasslands and rich fertile river plains, with many different types of climate and landscape, the Middle East was the natural home to the first agricultural agglomeration. The region where large parts are covered by desert or grassland; […]
Summary Iraq’s new parliament delayed its next session for five weeks Monday, extending the country’s political paralysis in the face of a Sunni Islamist insurgency which claimed the life of an army general on the northwestern outskirts of Baghdad. Saudi Arabia reported three shells hit the Arar area inside the […]
It is easy to be cynical about candidates winning 80 per cent of the vote but for some Middle East regimes the appearance of democracy is enough to secure the covert backing of Western powers Why do dictators love elections? It’s an old question in the Middle East, but it […]
The ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika won a fourth term in a ballot decried as fraudulent by his critics In Algeria, politics is theatre, blood is real. You may joke about […]
Salon.com: I’d like to comment on topics that I think should regularly be on the front pages but are not — and in many crucial cases are scarcely mentioned at all or are presented in ways that seem to me deceptive because they’re framed almost reflexively in terms of doctrines […]
By Ezra Sihite on 6:00 am May 18, 2013. Criticism against recognizing President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono as a champion of religious freedom was part of democracy, a presidential spokesman said […]
KARACHI: ARAB NEWS Friday 5 April 2013 Last Update 5 April 2013 2:56 am Different Pakistani courts have put big question marks over the political careers of several former lawmakers who had deceived the system by using fake educational certificates to fulfill electoral conditions. The most recent wicket to fall […]
KHAR, Pakistan: A Pakistani housewife, who cannot read or write despite being married to a headteacher, has made history by becoming the first woman approved to run for election in […]
by Ahmed Rashid NYR BLOG This spring was supposed to open a new chapter in Pakistan’s tenuous embrace of inclusive democracy. At midnight on March 17, following constitutional rules, the […]
Source: Washington Times. By Begum Khaleda Zia ( Former President of Bangladesh) Will 2013 be a watershed in U.S.-Bangladeshi relations? My country of 150 million people, located between India and Myanmar, has been independent since 1971, when the United States was one of the first nations to recognize our right […]
BRUSSELS: ARAB NEWS Saturday 22 December 2012 Russian President Vladimir Putin met with European leaders in Brussels to discuss energy, Syria and human rights, but reached no agreements — as officials on both sides had predicted in advance. Putin said after yesterday’s meeting that Russia isn’t a defender of Syrian […]
Salma Abu El-Magd arrested after interrupting speech by Muslim Brotherhood leader Essam El-Erian in New York, released after four hours in custody An Egyptian-American activist has been arrested in New […]
Reuter ARABNEWS CAIRO: Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi has canceled a decree that gave him sweeping powers and sparked huge protests, but did not delay a referendum on a constitution as his opponents had demanded. The announcement came from the spokesman for politicians and other figures who took part in a […]
Story Summary The tumultuous road to a stable democratic system of government in Egypt is passing through one of its most decisive stages these days, with most of the main political actors revealing their amateurism more than anything else. The Muslim Brotherhood leaders who have spent much of the last […]
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch The Swiss media have improved their coverage of politically and socially relevant issues, but they have become more superficial over the past decade according to Zurich […]
By Ali Bluwi AL ARABIYYA NEWS Saturday, 20 October 2012 I have just finished reading studies that centered on the relationship between the British intelligence (MI6) and political Islamic movements. I also had discussion with three intelligence personnel who worked for security agencies in Iraq, Sudan and the Gulf. We […]
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — “Many people still believe the post of mayor is exclusively for men,” says Vera Baboun, aiming to become the first female mayor of the Palestinian town […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Web Desk Published: October 2, 2012 In a meeting of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) headed by leader Hakimullah Mehsud, the outfit […]
Opinion: Playing in the Hands of Fundamentalists – by Muhammad Azeemullah Benghazi once known as the cradle of revolution in Libya is now deemed as the ghost of terror. The armed assault on American consulate in Benghazi, in which the American ambassador, Chris Stevens, and three other diplomats died, has […]
by Gaby Ochsenbein in Neuchâtel, swissinfo.ch Of the roughly eight million people living in Switzerland, 1.8 million are foreigners, largely excluded from the political process. Immigration expert Gianni d’Amato tells […]