View Point: The rift within GCC countries
Three Gulf monarchies - Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Bahrain - are so annoyed with a fellow member of the Gulf Co-operation Council, Qatar, that they have recalled their ambassadors…
The new Mardin declaration
Friday marked the fourth anniversary of the adoption of the New Mardin Declaration by globally renowned Muslim theologians and academics from across the world including Saudi Arabia, Turkey, India, Senegal,…
Mysterious Greek god held in Gazan detention
Lost for centuries, a rare bronze statue of the Greek god Apollo has mysteriously resurfaced in the Gaza Strip, only to be seized by police and vanish almost immediately from…
Egypt crackdown whips up pro-military frenzy
Hundreds of Egyptians gathered Friday outside Cairo's police headquarters shortly after a deadly car bombing there. They came to support the government's military-backed clampdown on the banned Muslim Brotherhood. "I…
Quaid’s deep concerns over plight of Muslim world
South Asian Muslims struggled under the dynamic leadership of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, a distinguished political strategist, constitutionalist and parliamentarian, to have a separate sovereign State of their own where…
The lies our leaders tell
Novelists and playwrights have vividly described the remorse that assails those who have done evil, they have portrayed the torment of a stricken conscience and the long nights of sleeplessness…
Hamas in crisis as Egypt cracks down on tunnels
Hamas is feeling the squeeze of an Egyptian army crackdown on border tunnels that once served as a financial lifeline for the Palestinian Islamist group ruling the Gaza Strip. The…
Clockwork precision on the Tokyo subway
The vast train network that criss-crosses subterranean Tokyo can be a confusing and intimidating place for the uninitiated. Dreary, utilitarian stations drone and chime with a stream of announcements, seemingly…
Egypt struggles to revive ailing tourism badly hit by unrest
"It's all about sun, sand and sea," a waiter said of Sharm el-Sheikh. But Egypt's once-popular Red Sea resort city, like the rest of the ailing tourism sector, has been…
Redefining ourselves
In terms of massive tragedy, atrocities committed and personal traumas surely no one community has suffered more in contemporary history than the Ummah –the worldwide community of Muslims. Indeed, if…
