Swedish cartoon reopens debate on freedom of expression
STOCKHOLM/CAIRO: Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt met on Friday with ambassadors from 20 Arab countries to engage in a dialogue on a cartoon deemed offensive to Islam.The caricatures of the…
AUC launches one-stop service center for new students
CAIRO: Newly enrolled students at the American University in Cairo need not worry about following the university's complicated system to prepare for their freshman year; the new Student Service Center…
Russia launches worldwide Arabic TV channel
CAIRO: In an effort to provide Arab living rooms around the world with insight into Russian international and domestic affairs, Russian TV is launching the Arabic TV channel; Rusiya Al-Yaum…
Ibrahim Eissa released after seven-hour interrogation
CAIRO: The public prosecutor released Ibrahim Eissa, chief editor of Al-Dostour independent daily newspaper, without bail, after a seven-hour interrogation, on Wednesday Sept. 5,The editor of the independent Egyptian daily…
The life of Rumi is fictionalized for the first time
CAIRO: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) is commemorating the 800th anniversary of the birth of famed Sufi Persian poet and philosopher Jalaluddin Al Rumi, whose works…
Nuclear Steps Undermine Peace
By abandoning many of the nuclear arms agreements negotiated in the last 50 years, the United States has been sending mixed signals to North Korea, Iran, and other nations with…
Another surge, this time in Middle East diplomacy
WASHINGTON - This past July, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates made an extraordinary joint visit to key Middle East countries. Focused on securing…
The caliphate: a threat to democracy?
The Hizbut Tahrir Indonesia (HTI) hosted the International Khilafah Conference last month. Since this event, Indonesian mass media has been discussing the pros and cons of implementing a caliphate system…
A delicate balance
It is no secret that the PLO and the Palestinian Authority leadership are participating in the boycott of Gaza, in the hope that this will turn the population against Hamas.…
No world security without "neighborliness"
New York: There are 1.3 billion followers of the Prophet Mohamed; every fifth person prays facing Mecca; every fifth country celebrates Ramadan. In the near future Muslim populations will only…
