Washington, DC: Many people wonder what relevance shari'a–Islamic principles– has in the modern world. In Morocco it has influenced national laws, especially the civil code and family law, primarily in a positive sense. Coupled with the (...)
WASHINGTON, DC: In the years since the terrorist attacks that shook Casablanca on 16 May 2003, a number of observers posited a causal relationship between the existence of slums and the unleashing of terrorist violence based on a warped (...)
A language of tolerance in Saudi Arabia, by Tariq A. Al-Maeena
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia received a massive jolt in 2001 when it was widely reported that 15 of the 19 suspected 9/11 perpetrators were sons of its soil. In the days and weeks that (...)