Category: Arab World

Google Chairman to keynote Saudi business forum

January 10, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

This year’s theme ‘Competitive Governments’ draws together an impressive group of over 50 speakers from 22 different countries to discuss the positive impact national competitiveness can have on local, regional and global economic and social development. The Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF) will be held at the Four Seasons Hotel inRiyadh from January 25-27 and will discuss global…

Arab World, Business

Winter storm gathers over Occupied Palestine

January 10, 2015 Mohammed Asad 1 Comment

By Mohammed Asad A winter storm brought unusually cold weather and snow and rain to Occupied Palestine this past week. Snow blanketed much of the Holy Land adding a nice touch to the Orthodox Christmas which was celebrated throughout occupied Palestine. Hit hardest were residents of the Gaza Strip which was devastated by Israel’s war…

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Western Media should not treat Islam as a target of its insults in the name of freedom of press

January 10, 2015January 10, 2015 Ali Younes 13 Comments

By Ali Younes Muslims and Islamic organizations across the world condemned in strongest terms, and rightly so, the massacre against the journalists and editors of the satirist French Magazine Charlie Hebdo, even when at the same time disagreed and disapproved with Charlie Hebdo’s insults against the Muslim faith. Western media acts free of any legal…

Ali Younes, Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, News, Spotlight

Time for Arab moderates to step up to the peace plate

January 9, 2015 rayhanania 2 Comments

By Ray Hanania At no time has it been clearer that Israel does not want genuine peace with the Arab World. What Israel wants is for Palestine to disappear and eventually, for the Arab World to go away, too. Israel’s government has repeatedly rejected peace based on Two-States — Palestine and Israel. In Israel’s current…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Gulf States, Israel, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania, Syria

A Letter from Bethlehem at Christmas

January 8, 2015 Maria Khoury No Comments

By Maria Khoury Christ is Born! Glorify Him! I thought you might like to see how Bethlehem looked like this Christmas. with prayers and good wishes from the very land of Christ’s birth. All Christian denominations in Palestine agreed to celebrate Christmas on the new calendar December 25th since the early 90’s and celebrate the Holy…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Features, Maria Khoury, Palestine & Jordan, religion

Qatar Airways welcomes first A350 XWB at public ceremony

January 8, 2015April 13, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

Qatar Airways unveils new aircraft at lavish celebrations in Doha Qatar Airways last night welcomed the airline’s first A350 XWB aircraft, as global launch customer, at a spectacular ceremony in Doha. The event was inaugurated in the presence of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs, His Excellency Mr. Ahmad bin…

Arab World, Business, Travel

Analysis: Palestinian leadership not immune to change

January 8, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

By Amer Sabaileh The Palestinian leadership is facing many problems and conflicts not only with Israel in trying to end the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, but also facing major serious conflicts from within its ranks. Intra-Palestinian squabbles are no longer along the Fatah-Hamas divide that define these conflicts, but now it is within the…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Guest Columnist, Palestine & Jordan, Spotlight

Amnesty International blasts Israel on ICC response

January 7, 2015 rayhanania 1 Comment

Retaliation Against Palestine’s Welcome Accession to ICC Must Stop Israel, the USA and EU member states must refrain from punishing or threatening Palestine for taking the positive step of granting the International Criminal Court (ICC) jurisdiction over crimes under international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), Amnesty International said today. Amnesty International welcomes Palestine¹s…

Arab World, Israel, News, Palestine & Jordan

Saudi Arabia hosts conference on competetiveness

January 7, 2015September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

Riyadh to Host Saudi and International Academics, Business and Political Leaders for the 8th Global Competitiveness Forum This year’s theme ‘Competitive Governments’ draws together an impressive group of over 50 speakers from 22 different countries to discuss the positive impact national competitiveness can have on local, regional and global economic and social development. The Global Competitiveness Forum…

Activism, Arab World, Business, Gulf States, News

Is a Military Coup d’état imminent in Yemen?

January 7, 2015January 7, 2015 Ali Younes No Comments

By: Gamal Gasim, Ph.D Is Yemen on the verge of a rapid and dramatic change through an imminent military coup d’état? It has been difficult to follow the dramatic events unfolding in Yemen since the Houthis entered the capital city, Sana’a, on September 21, 2014; but when looking carefully at the trajectory of events in…

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Snow Storms Threatens Syrian Refugees

January 7, 2015January 7, 2015 rayhanania No Comments

Severe weather may take lives among displaced in the Middle East. Storms, snow and freezing cold are threatening lives among exhausted Syrian refugees in the Middle East. Norwegian Refugee Council fears that the insufficient assistance may have fatal consequences for refugees and internally displaced from Lebanon to Northern Iraq. “Similar weather conditions two years ago led…

Activism, Arab World, News, Press Releases, Spotlight, Syria

Orthodox Christians celebrate Christmas in Gaza Strip

January 7, 2015April 13, 2019 Mohammed Asad 3 Comments

By Mohammed Asad Orthodox Christians from around the world celebrated Christmas today, Jan. 7, 2015. The Orthodox Christmas is celebrated on the basis of the old Julian Calendar and often comes within a week or two of the traditional Christmas on Dec. 25 of each year. Orthodox Christians are mainly from Middle East and Mediterranean countries…

Arab World, Bloggers, Christian & Muslim, Commentary, Mohammed Asad, News, Palestine & Jordan, Ray Hanania, religion, Spotlight

War of words escalates between Clooney and Egypt

January 5, 2015August 20, 2019 rayhanania No Comments

By Ray Hanania View image | gettyimages.com An Egyptian court on June 23, 2014, handed out jail terms ranging from three to ten years each to 18 people, including four foreign Al Jazeera journalists convicted of ‘fabricating news’, eleven defendants including three foreign correspondents including Egyptian-Canadian Mohamed Fadel Fahmy (L), were sentenced in absentia to ten…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Gulf States, News Media, Ray Hanania

Facebook Breaks the News on Mordechai Vanunu

January 3, 2015August 20, 2019 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

By Eileen Fleming On Saturday Mordechai Vanunu’s attorney Michael Sfard wrote on his Facebook Wall regarding Israel’s Nuclear Whistleblower’s latest petition for his right to leave Israel: 11 year after Mordechai Vaanunu was released from prison but placed in an administrative cell made of limitation orders barring him from communications with non-Israelis, the State…

Arab World, Bloggers, Eileen Fleming, Palestine & Jordan, Video

AIPAC Commends Obama’s Failure to Recognize Palestine’s Rights

January 2, 2015September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 2 Comments

By Eileen Fleming AIPAC praises failure of UN resolution to recognize Palestine as a state, an effort by Palestinians to kickstart the peace process killed by Netanyahu’s extremist government On December 19, President Obama signed bills to bolster the ‘special relationship’ with Israel, support Syrian rebels, to disrupt Native American land rights, and to protect…

Arab World, Bloggers, Commentary, Eileen Fleming, Palestine & Jordan

Santa Claus visits homeless in destroyed Gaza city

December 31, 2014December 31, 2014 Mohammed Asad No Comments

By Mohammed Asad Santa Claus walking around New Year’s Eve among destroyed houses in Shujaiya (Shu’jaiyya, Shejaiya, Shuja’iya) in the Gaza Strip to draw a smile on the faces of the children in the face of the world’s silence on the destruction of thousands of homes in the Gaza Strip by Israel’s military last August (2104). The secular symbol…

Arab World, Bloggers, Christian & Muslim, Commentary, Israel, Mohammed Asad, News, Palestine & Jordan

Breathing in a new life in 2015 and Exhaling 2014 with a Deep Sigh

December 29, 2014September 24, 2018 USS_Liberty Info 1 Comment

By Eileen Fleming The first thing we take in life is a breath and the last thing we give up is a breath. But unlike any other function of the body, breathing relies equally on the voluntary and involuntary nervous systems. In the West, most of us never focus on even one of the 20,000…

Arab World, Bloggers, Eileen Fleming, Health, Palestine & Jordan

O Little Town of Who Cares?

December 28, 2014September 24, 2018 rayhanania No Comments

By Ray Hanania Every Christmas, I always hear the same conflicting arguments. On the one hand, people tell me, “Stop saying ‘Happy Holidays.’ It’s ‘Merry Christmas’. If you don’t like it, move.” The point being that they presumably are proud of being Christian. And, since Christmas is a Christian holiday, they want people to acknowledge…

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