Added on 11/08/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Africa , Allah , Amman , Food and Drink , Gaza , Hamas , Iraq , Israel , Jordan , Maan News Agency , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Qatari Government , Ramadan , Somalia , Tel Aviv , United Nations , United States , West Bank
RAMZY BAROUD: There has been much criticism of the paltry response by the Muslim world to the famine in Somalia. Gazans show the way forward.
Added on 08/08/2011
Crossroads Arabia
Declaration of Independence , Employment , Europe , Expatriates , Food and Drink , France , Oil , Political systems , Saudi Arabia , United Kingdom , United States
CROSSROADS ARABIA: It’s a debate without ending but it seems to have taken a sharply antagonistic turn in an opinion piece in ‘Al Riyadh’.
Added on 07/08/2011
Michael J. Totten
Anwar Sadat , Armin Rosen , Army , Beirut , Bucharest , Budapest , Cairo , Center for Political and Strategic Studies , Democracy , EGP , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Electricity , Europe , Food and Drink , Free Egypt Party , Gamal Abdel Nasser , head of state , Hizballah , Hosni Mubarak , Israel , Journalist , Lebanon , Middle East , Mohamed Hussein Tantawi , Mohammad Adel , Muslim Brotherhood , Paranoia , Prague , Prime Minister , Salafist , Supreme Council of the Armed Forces , Sweden , Syria , Tahrir Square , United States , vice chairman , Wafd , Wafd Party , Zamalek
MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: I’ve spent a lot of time with the key players in Egypt’s developing democracy. It’s very clear that the real battle for the country’s – and the region’s – future has just begun.
Added on 07/08/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
Egypt , Food and Drink , Literature , Mohamed Salmawy , Ramadan
M. LYNX-QUALEY: So what was on the Ramadan reading list of the great Naguib Mahfouz? A little of what you would expect and a few surprises.
Added on 05/08/2011
mai abdul rahman
Food and Drink , Islam , Ramadan , Somalia
MAI ABDUL RAHMAN: Whenever I finish my fast I cannot help thinking of the plight of Somali mothers, fellow Muslims, who have no food for their children.
Added on 01/08/2011
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
Anders Behring Breivik , Cambridge University , chancellor , Christmas , Europe , Food and Drink , Islam , Islamaphobia , Muslims , Norway , Oklahoma , Prime Minister , Racism , United Kingdom , World Trade Center
SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED: Last week’s horror has the potential to change the discourse again, away from anti-Muslim sentiment.
Added on 01/08/2011
American Bedu
Food and Drink , Iftar , Islam , Ramadan
AMERICAN BEDU: It is an honor to be invited to share the rites of Ramadan with your Muslim friends but it’s important to observe a few points of protocol.
Added on 31/07/2011
Crossroads Arabia
Board of Senior Ulema , Control and Investigation Board , Food and Drink , Islam , Jeddah , Ramadan , Ramadan falls , Saudi Arabia , Saudi Gazette
CROSSROADS ARABIA: It appears that the Saudi authorities have had enough of people using the Holy Month as an excuse to do little or any work.
Added on 24/07/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Africa , British government , Djibouti , East Africa , Ethiopia , Food and Drink , Italy , Kenya , Libya , Media outlets , Middle East , Organization of Islamic Cooperation , Oxfam , Somalia , Sudan , The Telegraph , United Kingdom , United Nations , United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund , United States , World Health Organization
RAMZY BAROUD: Maybe it’s time to save a few bombing runs on Libya and donate the proceeds to the humanitarian catastrophe that’s unfolding in the Horn of Africa?
Added on 23/07/2011
thehedonista
Australia , Dubai , Food and Drink , Hyundai , Melbourne , Travel , Victoria , Western Europe
SARAH WALTON: “Us from Dubai are only occasional snow dwellers, and so I enter the fields in pink borrowed gear that results in the nickname “marshmallowzilla”…
Added on 17/07/2011
The View From Fez
Casablanca , Finance , Food and Drink , Middle East , Morocco , New York , President
THE VIEW FROM FEZ: The recent signing of an agreement in Casablanca launching a micro-finance initiative is good news for the poor of Morocco.
Added on 28/06/2011
Common Ground News Service
Austria , Civil society , East Africa , Food and Drink , Jeddah , Middle East , North Africa , Saudi Arabia , Search for Common Ground
LULUA ASAAD, CGNEWS: The Young Initiative Group, founded in Saudi Arabia in 2010, has already had a significant impact in effecting positive change within the Kingdom.
Added on 08/06/2011
Common Ground News Service
Food and Drink , Islam , Middle East , Ramadan
SHEIKH IBRAHIM RAMADAN, CGNEWS: Recognising and celebrating the differences of other religions is a mark of strength, not weakness.
Added on 05/06/2011
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
chauffeur , Food and Drink , GPS , Middle East , Women's issues
SHELINA ZAHRA JANMOHAMED: Speeding, tailgating, road rage – yes, the ingredients of the male driver. Let’s stop this testosterone-fuelled menace.
Added on 04/06/2011
Steve Royston
Argentina , Bahrain , Blogging , CEO , Conventional media , Dubai , Facebook , Food and Drink , Mahmoud Ahmadinejad , Middle East , Osama , Print media , Rwanda , Social Media , Social networking , South Africa , The Huffington Post , United States
STEVE ROYSTON: “If you manage to persuade your CEO to write a blog, you’d better make sure he or she writes lively content. Otherwise their blog will have the opposite effect…”
Added on 27/05/2011
Juan Cole
African Union , Ali Abdullah Saleh , Arab government , Benghazi , Democracy , Egypt , Food and Drink , Gaza , Hosni Mubarak , International Criminal Court , Israel , Libya , Middle East , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , President , Sadiq al-Ahmar , Sana’a , United Nations , United States , US embassy , Yemen
JUAN COLE: It’s been a busy few days throughout the Arab World with existing and former dictators finding the going is getting tougher.
Added on 14/05/2011
mai abdul rahman
Clinton , Egypt , Food and Drink , Gaza , Hamas , humanitarian law , International Committee of the Red Cross , Israel , Mubarak , Mubarak government , Nabil al-Arabi , Palestine , United States , Usher , Washington , Washington Times
MAI ABDUL RAHMAN: Allowing the Rafah will undoubtedly end the absolute and confounding isolation of the Gazans and the need of smuggling through the tunnels.
Added on 29/04/2011
Omar al-Issawi
Amman , Benjamin Netanyahu , Cairo , Damascus , Democratic Front , Doha , Egypt , Fatah , Food and Drink , Gaza , Hamas , Hosni Mubarak , Israel , Jerusalem , Jordan , Muslim Brotherhood , Palestine , Palestinian Authority , Palestinian Territories , Pennsylvania , President , Prime Minister , Qatar , Syria
OMAR AL ISSAWI: That the PA recognizes Israel will not have escaped the attention of either Netanyahu, or for that matter Hamas.
Added on 23/04/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Activist , BBC , Benjamin Netanyahu , Daniel Pipes , Egypt , European Union , Food and Drink , Gaza , Hamas , International Solidarity Movement , Israel , James Miller , Jerusalem , Journalist , Juliano Mer Khamis , New York Times , Palestine , Palestinian Territories , Prime Minister , Rachel Corrie , Rome , Tom Hurndall , United States , Vittorio Arrigoni
RAMZY BAROUD: Grief and despair have been the overwhelming emotions felt by those who knew Vik Arrigoni. He has, however, left us an enduring message.
Added on 31/03/2011
Omar al-Issawi
Ali Abdullah Saleh , Aref Dalila , Beirut , Ben Ali , Damascus , Egypt , Food and Drink , Hafez Al Assad , Healthcare , Hillary Clinton , Iraq , Kuwait , Libya , London , Middle East , Mubarak , Muslim Brotherhood , Poet , President , Secretary of State , Syria , Syrian government , United States , Yemen
OMAR AL-ISSAWI: It’s a ‘plot’, ‘foreign elements’ are at work, the word ‘conspiracy’ is never far from the lips of Syria’s official spokespeople. We’ve heard it all before – from Ben Ali, Mubarak, Gaddafi and Ali Abdullah Saleh.