Saudi King and Crown Prince Condole Kuwait
In a heartfelt gesture of solidarity, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman expressed their deepest condolences to the Emir of Kuwait on Monday following the passing of Sheikh More »
Putin and Abbas Discuss Gaza Crisis
Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday during Abbas’ visit to Russia. Arriving on Monday, Abbas aims to discuss the ongoing Gaza conflict with More »
Saudi Arabia Voices Strong Support for Gaza Peace Initiatives
Saudi Arabia has firmly aligned itself with the recent joint statement made by President Joe Biden of the United States, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi of Egypt, and Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani, More »
Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Category Archives: Columns
Who is Hamas fighting for?
By: Khairallah Khairallah In 2006, Israel launched a war on Lebanon. It was a war that aimed to weaken Hezbollah which had started to work towards tightening its grip on Lebanon to fill the vacuum resulting from the Syrian military’s
All talk, no action: A message to those who ‘support’ Palestine
By: Octavia Nasr I’m sick and tired of the pretenders who say, “Palestine is the compass,” and ignore the actual abuses the Palestinians have been enduring at the hands of occupiers, jailers and hostile hosts. I’m not talking only about
An urgent open letter to Sisi, you can save Palestinian lives!
By: Abdallah Schleifer Egypt can and must open the border crossing point with Gaza to provide temporary refugee relief while guaranteeing Egypt’s own security from Gaza and Sinai based terrorists. The Palestinians in Gaza are in a dire situation. Hamas
Western fatigue and the Gaza crisis
By: Neil Berry The latest maniacal rampage of Israel in Gaza has unfolded not just against the background of the abortive US-led peace talks but also of an egregious outpouring of Zionist self-congratulation. As the “Arab Spring” gave way to
Burma’s forgotten Muslims – even more forgotten
By: Bakir Oweida I wanted to take a break from the scenes of murder and destruction in Gaza so I grabbed the latest edition of TIME magazine which I bought last Saturday. The contents page gave me a rough idea
Why Vladimir Putin is not to blame for MH17
By: Maria Dubovikova On the July 16, a Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 was shot down in eastern Ukraine. This awful catastrophe caused death of 298 people, 80 children among them. Whatever the geopolitical framework surrounding the event, this is an
The Christians’ ordeal with Muslim extremists
By: Abdulrahman al-Rashed Thousands of Iraqi Christians fled their city of Mosul to Sunni Kurdish areas up north after the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threatened to kill them if they don’t convert to Islam or pay tax.
Spending time with kids
By: Hatoon Kadi We are going through the last 10 days of the blessed month of Ramadan. I pray to God to accept our fasts, prayers and other acts of worship and shower His blessings on us all. The other
Question of observing Ramadan in Iceland
By: Abdulateef Al-Mulhim Iceland is a country the size of the American state, Kentucky, or about 40,000 sq. miles and considered one of the least populated countries of the world. Its capital, Reykjavík is the most northern capital in the
It is time for serious introspection
By: Saad Dosari When the sun comes up, it is normal for kids to go out and play on the beach. Building castles, playing footballs, running after each other, falling and helping each other out, screaming and laughing and opening
The war on Gaza, Hamas and the Israeli Far Right
By: Raghida Dergham It is no secret that Qatar and Turkey are very close to Hamas, the de facto ruler of the Gaza Strip, and that this trio’s relations with Egypt under President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi are marred by tension,
The Arab world cannot stay paralyzed forever
By: Khaled Almaeena “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it
Hitting Israel where it hurts, with BDS and protests
By: Yara al Wazir The Israeli ground invasion into Gaza initiated this week has awakened the world to the reality of the situation. Protests and demonstrations have erupted around the globe in solidarity with the Palestinians, and demonstrations against the
Gaza bleeds amid a fiery intra–Islamic civil war
By: Eyad Abu Shakra The Palestinians have faced many tough situations over the years, but in most cases they have succeeded in winning the sympathy of their Arab brothers and most of the international community. They have a just cause,
The Arabs’ long journey into the heart of darkness
By: Hisham Melhem When they came out of their poor peninsula, the early Muslim Arabs when compared with the more sophisticated and advanced Byzantines of Asia Minor and the Eastern Mediterranean, or the Persians to the East, looked like haggard
Turkey’s ‘open border’ policy has not backfired
By: Ceylan Ozbudak Five-year-old Asiya fell asleep over a dirty blanket under the intense sun as she and her family arrived in Kilis, Turkey after an arduous three day journey from Syria. Her fragile body could not take any more,
Will peace ever return?
By: Ozma Siddiqui We are in the middle of the blessed month of Ramadan but the untold cruelty being unleashed upon the weakest segments of society, the women and children, caught as they are in the maelstrom of internal conflicts
Muslims and mountains of misconceptions
By: Syed Aijaz Zaka Being a student of media, it never ceases to amaze me how popular perceptions and opinions are formed. How tiny little nuggets of misinformation, hearsay, old-fashioned biases and often plain ignorance feed into dangerous stereotypes and
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