Tall, slim and eloquent, Hammour Ziada is very precise with words. He describes himself as a chronicler who narrates pleasurable stories. The serene smile on his face and the confident tone of his voice do not hide though a restless soul that has (...)
Imam Al-Sadiq Al-Mahdi is definitely a man of few words and a lot of action. His charismatic posture denounces an aristocratic demeanour, despite an ascetic lifestyle. Clad in the traditional white robe and turban, cane in hand, with smile unfading, (...)
The year 2007 witnessed heightened activism among the Egyptian workers and a record in the number of sit-ins, strikes and peaceful demonstrations. The common denominator is definitely an increasingly deteriorating situation of those workers who (...)
The Women's Union of Kurdistan sounded an alarm bell recently about the increase of suicide rate among Kurdish women due to forced marriages. Most of the cases reported were of women who spilled kerosene on their bodies and set fire to themselves to (...)
Sheikh Hamza Al-Diri, the Bahraini Shia Islamic National Accord Association MP, recently launched an attack against the Sunni independent salafist MP Sheikh Gassem Al-Saidi.
In his attack, Sheikh Al-Diri claimed Sheikh Al-Saidi was generating (...)
Several Islamic blogs have recently started a discussion over means to combat the "pornographic imagination in Arab literary works through the spread of what has been labeled the Islamic novel.
This type of novel calls for the need to follow the (...)
Head of Muslim preaching and mosques in the city of Aden Sheikh Anis Al-Hobaishi reported on Saturday that his life could be in danger after he made statements recently on the authenticity of one of Prophet Muhammad's sayings (Hadith) regarding (...)
The Iraqi parliament voted on Wednesday in favor of the long-discussed new Iraqi oil and natural gas law, thus allowing foreign investment in both sectors. The parliament specified that this law will allow the private sector to participate in the (...)