Frankie Boyle: BBC’s impartiality!
03 May 2010: Scottish comedian Frankie Boyle in an open letter to the BBC published in the British media has said that he was right to criticize Israel for being an “aggressive terrorist state.” Earlier this week BBC Trust issued a public apology for Boyle’sDubai film festival awards go to Zindeeq, Lola
17 Dec 2009: The movie "Zindeeq" (renegade), directed by Palestinian filmmaker Michel Khleifi and "Lola" by Filipino director Brillante Mendoza won the first prize of the sixth edition of Dubai International Film Festival (DIFF). Dubai Ruler Sheikh Mohammad bin RashidThree Must-Watch Movies during Ramadan
05 Aug 2009: ABU DHABI - There is, perhaps, no better time to start helping the planet we are living on than during Ramadan, a month of holiness, purity and soul-searching. A reminder of what climate change is doing to us and future generations, as well as a rareFirst Hamas-made movie begins Gaza Strip run
04 Aug 2009: The audience in the Gaza Strip clapped and cheered as the actor delivered the movie's most memorable line. "To kill Israeli soldiers is to worship God." "Imad Aqel", which had its premiere on Saturday, is the first feature film produced by the IslamistThe non-profit worker from Bethlehem who was branded a terrorist by Bruno
01 Aug 2009: For a supposed terrorist, Ayman Abu Aita is remarkably easy to find. It takes one phone call to set up a meeting with the man described in the hit movie Brüno as a "terrorist group leader". He sits alone at a long, white table in the gardens of theN'Dour documentary tries to show sweeter side of Islam
29 Jul 2009: YOUSSOU N'DOUR has been fusing African rhythms and Islamic sacred music, personal history, religious history and African history in his music for more than 30 years. His lyrics (he sings in French, Arabic and English) can be political and uplifting,Armed Israeli police close theatre on first night of Palestinian festival
25 May 2009: Armed Israeli police last night tried to halt the opening night of a prominent Palestinian literary festival in Jerusalem when they ordered a Palestinian theatre to close. The week-long festival, supported by the British council and Unesco, has broughtGood night America: Paxman's US show axed after ratings flop
08 Apr 2009: It's been the Golden Goose for combative Brits such as Gordon Ramsay and Simon Cowell, but Jeremy Paxman has discovered, to his cost, that it takes more than a cut-glass accent and dogged questioning to make it big in America. The Newsnight presenter'sAfrica's Eden
04 Apr 2009: I’ve loved the Kalahari since the first time I went to Botswana as a boy. It is a place of boundless space and endless skies which explode at dusk into almost unimaginable splendour. Of all the places I have been in the world from the Arctic Circle toHas love been blood-written by Hadrawi
04 Apr 2009: Maxamed Ibraahim Warsame 'Hadraawi' is considered by many to be the greatest living Somali poet. Born in northern Somalia (the present self-declared Republic of Somaliland) in 1943, he was educated in Aden and went on to a career in teaching in the earlyJewish writer in row over 'tolerant' Iran
30 Mar 2009: A row has broken out over allegations of antisemitism at the New York Times, America's most vaunted name in journalism and a newspaper with a large Jewish readership. The storm centres on a column about Jews in Iran written by New York Times journalistBetter than The Wire?
19 Mar 2009: You've finished The Wire box set? You'd like something else that is just as good as "the greatest show ever in the history of television" (© all Guardian journalists) but you're not quite sure where to go next? How about a series that's as passionate andAfrican film's biggest festival celebrates 40th anniversary
28 Feb 2009: The 40-year-old FESPACO, Africa's biggest film fest, this year is aiming for a touch of glamour and a new momentum to draw in the crowds and money badly needed for Africa's ailing film industry. For this year's 21st edition of the bi-annual Pan-AfricanHow a 13th Century Islamic Poet Conquered America
04 Feb 2009: The best-selling poet in America today could never have known that someday there would be such a thing as America. Born over eight centuries ago in what is now Afghanistan, Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Sufi mystic, has traversed some rather astonishingNew Yusuf Islam album
28 Jan 2009: Yusuf Islam -- the artist formerly known as Cat Stevens -- is readying a secular album said to recall his "straightforward troubadour days" in late Spring via Universal, featuring a collection of locally connected artists. Yusuf's yet-untitled set:slashnews
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
