Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص's Blog (4,165)

When the hotel industry decides it is time to launch an underwater hotel, you know the tide has turned.

New brands are setting up in region

Dubai's tourism industry shows signs of renewed confidence at Arabian Travel Market, one of world's biggest events for the sector.

By Rebecca Bundhun - DUBAI

Dubai's tourism industry showed signs of renewed…

KHARTOUM - Journalists and freedom of expression are under increasing attack in Sudan, where newspapers have been…

It’s easy to understand why Presidents, politicians and the military love robots. They don’t talk back. They follow

Military technology continues to spill over into domestic law enforcement as unmanned drones – used to hunt down and kill suspected “militants” abroad – are now touted as the latest tool for monitoring Americans, a development that has drawn scant attention, writes Danny…

CHICAGO - Former US President Jimmy Carter warned against a possible war with Iran Monday as he decried his

Carter is not against conflict when necessary

Ex-US President decries his nation's involvement in unjust conflicts, wishes US could be seen as champion of peace.

nation's involvement in unjust conflicts at a summit of Nobel Peace Prize laureates in Chicago.…

LONDON - European countries are discriminating against Muslims for demonstrating their faith, especially in the fields

Negative stereotypes and prejudices against Islam on the rise in Europe

of education and employment, rights group Amnesty International said Tuesday.

Amnesty International Muslims are being denied jobs, education in Europe for demonstrating their…

UN and African officials on Sunday urged Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWF) worth an estimated $5 trillion to invest in

The right environment needs to be created for foreign investments to start flowing

Officials from UNCTAD, several African nations complain level of investment inflows to continent too low.

By Omar Hasan - DOHA

developing countries, even as…

Egypt has scrapped a 2005 gas export deal with Israel, which relies on Egyptian natural gas for 40 percent of its

Egypt provides 43 percent of Israel's gas supplies

EGAS chairman says 2005 accord annulled because Israel’s EMG failed to respect conditions stipulated in contract

By Mona Salem - CAIRO

supplies to produce electricity, the chairman of a government holding…

RABAT - The suicide of a Moroccan teen who was forced to marry her rapist has sparked outraged calls for reform, but

Can Hakkaoui be the driving force to change article 475?

Weight of tradition, inertia of justice system can make change of Moroccan rape victim marriage law slow.

the weight of tradition and the inertia of the justice system can make change slow here.…

BASRA (Iraq) - Studies by human rights groups in Iraq have found that there are a growing number of child prostitutes

'Government doesn’t want to take any action'

Observers believe child prostitution is particularly widespread among Iraq’s displaced families, who have been forced to flee due to violence in their hometown

among the nation’s many displaced persons. NIQASH…

It’s a policy fierce enough to cause great suffering among Iranians -- and possibly in the long run among Americans,

The great oil blockade of 2012 may still be largely financially focused, but it carries with it the same dangers of escalation and intervention -- as well as future bitterness and blowback -- as did the campaign of the early 1950s, arguesJuan Cole

too. It might, in the end, even deeply harm…