August 2011 Blog Posts (69)

JERUSALEM - The militants who killed seven Israelis in a series of attacks on southern Israel came from the Gaza

Hamas denies involvement in the attacks

Defence Minister points finger Gaza Strip after seven Israelis killed in series of attacks on southern…

ABU DHABI - The Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque Center has received around 220,000 fasters in the first half of the holy

Cultural plurality and diversity sharing iftar

Between 16,000 and 20,000 meals in fourteen air-conditioned tents are offered by Centre on daily…

Sweeping new policing powers, the tacit acceptance of torture and a backlash against Muslims that has grown fiercer

'The circus continues'

Sweeping new policing powers, tacit acceptance of torture, Islamaphobia making US less free and open…

WASHINGTON - The 9/11 attacks prompted an outpouring of international sympathy and support for the United States,

Analysts says US has not fully recovered its standing as steadfast defender of liberty, fierce protector of rule of law.

but Washington's subsequent "war on terror" undercut the superpower's moral authority.

Ten years later, analysts say, America has not fully…

ISTANBUL - Turkey's prime minister will head to Somalia next week to meet with people affected by a drought and

Turkey could not 'remain spectators of this spectacle of human misery'

Turkish PM to visit Somalia as Organisation of Islamic Cooperation readies to…

WASHINGTON - US President Barack Obama remembered the dead of the "awful" September 11 attacks in 2001

Obama remembered Muslim Americans who worshiped together at the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York

US President: We must be the America they lived for, the…

Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation. Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta. Ithaca Press

Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta’s book refutes that idea solidly through its investigation into the non-violent resistance movement taking place in Palestine and in Israel.

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I remember how exhilarated I felt when I was told I was old enough to fast for the month of Ramadan. My feelings had

One of multiple Gaza-led charity campaigns to aid Somalia is called 'From Gaza: hand in hand to save the children of Somalia'. Gaza, itself under a harsh Israeli siege imposed since Hamas was elected to power in 2006, has been one of the first places to respond to calls for help, notes Ramzy…

RAMALLAH - A delegation of Arab foreign ministers will urge permanent members of the Security Council next week to

Top Palestinian official says Arab FMs will talk with…

UNITED NATIONS - Ten percent of Somali children aged under five are dying every 11 weeks in the country's

The aid need has not been fully raised yet

Ten percent of Somali children aged under five dying every 11 weeks in country's devastating…

JERUSALEM - Israel's army has dropped references to God in a text read at a ceremony honouring fallen soldiers, a

Too much religion in the army

Israeli army drops Yitzkor text after protest from secular families of fallen soldiers.

 military…