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The award-winning film chronicles the story of Dr. Al-Arian and his family during and after his Florida…

Mississippi was not exactly the graveyard of the human rights struggle between the successful implementation of the

By Earnest McBride

 “Mississippi Plan” in 1885 and Brown versus Board of Education in 1954, but it had become the world-wide symbol of racial segregation at its worst.Then came the Tougaloo Nine on March 27, 1961, followed two months later by the first…

Denial is supposedly the first sign of a problem. Swimming against the revolutionary current overtaking the Muslim

By James Gundun – Washington, D.C.

world, President Barack Obama has fought a dogged perception that U.S. foreign policy cannot focus on multiple areas, that he should have visited Cairo and sent his Secretary of State to Latin America. That his administration is simply overloaded.

The criticism echoed so…

'Now it is time to naturalize the flow of history,' wrote Ahmet Davutoglu, Turkey's Minister of Foreign Affairs (British

There must be a break with the past. (Aljazeera)…

Any act of violence, especially one against civilians, marks a profound failure of human imagination and causes a deep

 and abiding trauma for all involved. In mourning the nine lives lost in Gaza and the one life lost in Jerusalem this week, we reject the pattern of condemning the deaths of Israelis while ignoring the deaths of Palestinians. We do not discriminate. One life lost is one life too many--whether Palestinian or…

Unless Orange County officials can show it was a security risk, a Muslim woman had the right to wear a headscarf when

 By SALVADOR HERNANDEZ

 she was taken into custody by deputies in court, an 11-judge panel ruled Tuesday.

In a unanimous decision Tuesday, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals also reinstated a lawsuit filed by Souhair Khatib, who sued the county after deputies forced her to remove her hijab when she was…

DUBAI - Dubai police have foiled a bid to smuggle 16,000 guns from Turkey to Yemen's northern province of Saada, a

Six Arabs residing in the UAE have been arrested

He is al-Habib ‘Umar the son of Muhammad the son of Salim the son of Hafiz the son of

Abd-Allah the son of Abi Bakr the son of ‘Aidarous the son of al-Hussain the son of al-Shaikh Abi Bakr the son of Salim the son of…

Libyan leader Moamer Gathafi defiantly claimed in TV comments aired on the fourth day of UN-backed military strikes

Obama warned that Gathafi may still hang onto power

Obama expects ‘clarity’ on future command structure of allied military operations over next several days.…