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Burkina Faso’s President, Captain Ibrahim Traoré, has reportedly declined an offer from Saudi Arabia to construct 200 mosques in the country, urging the kingdom to prioritize investments in critical infrastructure such as schools, hospitals, and job-creating businesses instead.

President Traoré emphasized that Burkina Faso already has a sufficient number of mosques, many of which remain underutilized. He highlighted the urgent need for…

MAKKAH — The General Authority for the Care of the Affairs of the Grand Mosque and the Prophet’s Mosque has introduced smart golf carts for tawaf (circumambulation around the Holy Kaaba). The golf cart service is made available on the roof of the Grand Mosque to serve the elderly and pilgrims with special needs during the holy month of Ramadan, which marks the peak annual Umrah season.

The authority revealed that the designated…

Trump 2.0 makes the Black Lives Matter period seem as distant as the last century.

Without the accompanying image of a swearing-in ceremony, a group text I saw on the morning of January 20 this year would have been baffling. But even with the photo, the text—“Has America reached its post-racial moment?”—seemed off. In fact, it sounded bizarre.

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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered a lawsuit challenging the deportation of former Columbia University graduate

student Mahmoud Khalil to be moved from a district court in New York to New Jersey, where the antiwar activist was first detained after he was arrested by immigration officers earlier this month.

U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman, sitting in New York, said the claim should be held in New Jersey because that’s where Khalil was…

By:  BY  JAKE OFFENHARTZ

12 March 2025

NEW YORK (AP) — A government lawyer asked a federal judge in Manhattan on Wednesday to move the legal fight

over the detention of Columbia University graduate student…

The First Amendment protects your right to assemble and express your views through protest.

Absolute insanity listening to the Secretary of the DHS struggle to explain why a U.S. permanent resident is being deported for protesting. These are the simpletons that run this country.…

Gaza

Soumaya Ghannoushi, a British-Tunisian writer and expert in Middle East politics, explains how Israel’s assault on Gaza is not just a war but a deliberate attempt to erase its history, culture, and identity. Ghannoushi argues that what is unfolding is more than mass destruction; it is cultural genocide. More than 200 heritage sites have been obliterated, including ancient mosques, churches,…

Berlin, Germany – The plaque that marks 77 William Street, the building in the German capital where a meeting that forever shaped Africa’s fate took place, is different.

https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/20250226_112242-1740573059.jpg?resize=270%2C180&quality=80 270w,…

Without Sanctuary 

Without Sanctuary is a collection of photographs documenting the tragic history of lynching in America. The collection emerged from James Allen’s deep interest in American history and culture. While researching, Mr. Allen discovered that photographs of lynchings were disturbingly common, yet their historical significance and impact had not been widely studied.

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