Notes From a Guantánamo Survivor
16 May 2012: I LEFT Guantánamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier — shackled hand-to-waist, waist-to-ankles, and ankles to a bolt on the airplane floor. My ears and eyes were goggled, my head hooded, and even though I was the only detainee on theOIC-Arab League to establish Al-Quds Support Committee
20 Mar 2012: JEDDAH, 26 Rabi al-Thani/19 March (IINA)-The Joint Committee on the follow-up of the implementation of OIC-Arab League Cooperation Agreement concluded its Second Session at the OIC headquarters in Jeddah. The agenda of the meeting included various issuesTwo Days in Gaza
20 Mar 2012: I have read several accounts over the last few days of how life in Southern Israel has become unbearable for the people living there. In retaliation for the latest provocation by Israel over 200 rockets were fired from Gaza into Israel. 11 people wereReinventing the Middle East lexicon
12 Jan 2012: “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, “it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” “The question is,” said Alice, “whether you can make words mean so many different things.” “TheYemen Cabinet approves immunity law for president
10 Jan 2012: SANAA: Yemen’s Cabinet approved a law granting President Ali Abdullah Saleh, and anyone who has worked under him, immunity from prosecution for any crimes committed during his 33-year rule. Sunday’s decision came as a surprise to many in Yemen, whoAlchemy in Islamic Times
01 Dec 2011: On 8 June, A.D. 632, the Prophet Mohammed (Peace and Prayers be upon Him) died, having accomplished the marvelous task of uniting the tribes of Arabia into a homogeneous and powerful nation. In the interval, Persia, Asia Minor, Syria, Palestine, Egypt,Hague warned over UK abstention in Palestinian statehood vote
09 Nov 2011: Britain will face severe consequences in the Middle East when it abstains in a UN vote on whether to recognise the Palestinian territories as an independent state, senior Conservatives have warned. As the foreign secretary, William Hague, prepares to tellMuslim Identity and Demography in the Arakan state of Myanmar
27 Oct 2011: 1: Introduction Burma (or today's Mayanmar) is a country of many nations - many races, ethnicities and religions. It is not a country either of or for any particular group - be they are the majority Bamar (Burman), the minority Shan, Kachin, Kayah, Kayin,Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
24 Oct 2011: A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,The wretched scandal of Gaza
10 Oct 2011: Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos thatslashnews
Major quake shakes eastern city of Van
A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hit eastern Turkey yesterday, triggering the collapse of buildings and killing many people, according
to officials and experts. At least 50 people were taken to the single hospital in the city of Van, Anatolia news agency said,
The wretched scandal of Gaza
Past bombed suburbs and scrubland stands the house on the frontier of hell. Once, Abdullah Wahdem's home was a pleasant villa set
in the citrus groves of northern Gaza. Now its cream stucco frontage is pitted by the bullets and artillery salvos that
From Hate to Love -
Story of Adiy ibn Hatim
In the ninth year of the Hijrah, an 'Arab king made the first positive moves to Islam after years of feeling hatred for it. He
drew closer to faith (iman) after opposing arid combating it. And he finally pledged allegiance to the Prophet, peace be on him,
Microsoft Bing in search deal with China’s
Baidu
Microsoft has signed a deal with China’s top search engine, Baidu, to provide the site with censored web search services in
English. Baidu, which dominates 83 per cent of the local market and whose success is built on its Chinese language services, said
