Then, when they were ready, they returned home, back to the drab Nile Delta region where Mr Morsi was raised in poverty, and began their slow, worthy ascent to prominence. But, even as Mr Morsi capped those 35 years of hard slog by being sworn in on Saturday as Egypt’s first democratically elected and first […]
Archive for June, 2012
Mohammed Morsi: from Cairo to California and back
Then, when they were ready, they returned home, back to the drab Nile Delta region where Mr Morsi was raised in poverty, and began their slow, worthy ascent to prominence. But, even as Mr Morsi capped those 35 years of hard slog by being sworn in on Saturday as Egypt’s first democratically elected and first […]
Nazir-Ali: How Mohamed Morsi, Egypt’s first Islamist president, interprets Sharia law will be a crucial test
Another, very different, scenario is, however, also possible. Egypt has a long history of Islamic scholars seeking to understand Sharia in terms of contemporary conditions and a concern for the common good. Muhammad Abduh (d.1905), the Grand Mufti, who is venerated by both the Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood, wanted a “pure” Islam as well […]
Nazir-Ali: How Mohammed Morsi, Egypt’s first Islamist president, interprets Sharia law will be a crucial test
Another, very different, scenario is, however, also possible. Egypt has a long history of Islamic scholars seeking to understand Sharia in terms of contemporary conditions and a concern for the common good. Muhammad Abduh (d.1905), the Grand Mufti, who is venerated by both the Salafis and the Muslim Brotherhood, wanted a “pure” Islam as well […]
Mississippi’s only abortion clinic faces immediate closure in new front of culture wars
Unless a last-ditch legal challenge on behalf of the clinic succeeds, Mississippi will become the first state in the country to have no dedicated abortion facility since the US Supreme Court’s Roe vs Wade ruling in 1973 that established constitutional federal protection for a woman’s right to end a pregnancy. The showdown is being avidly […]
Geneva meeting agrees ‘transition plan’ to new unity government for Syria
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted that a requirement for “mutual consent” meant Mr Assad would have to go. Last week the Syrian president said that outside powers could not dictate an agreement, and he has insisted he will stay. Diplomats were clearly pleased to have agreed a peace plan, confounding the pessimists, but […]
Geneva meeting agrees ‘transition plan’ to Syria unity government
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton insisted that a requirement for “mutual consent” meant Mr Assad would have to go. Last week the Syrian president said that outside powers could not dictate an agreement, and he has insisted he will stay. Diplomats were clearly pleased to have agreed a peace plan, confounding the pessimists, but […]
Israel’s former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir dies aged 96
He made his final appearance on the international stage at the 1991 Madrid international conference which led to peace talks between Israel and its Arab neighbours. Following Likud’s defeat to Labour in 1992 elections, Mr Shamir retired from political life in 1996. The funeral is to take place on Monday in Jerusalem, where he is […]
Yitzhak Shamir obituary
“Our aim was to establish a Jewish state where there was no state, not to destroy an existing state. The main aim of the Palestinians is to destroy the state of Israel,” he said. “The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people. Look, we defend ourselves now. But […]
Prince of Liechtenstein threatens to leave after vote on his powers
“I like our prince, we need him here,” said a stout matron in a shop selling stamps. “Liechtenstein would be nothing without him.” The cause of the prince’s threat to leave is a proposal to cut his power by ending his automatic veto over new legislation. The campaign, in the tiny and usually tranquil nation, […]
Bahrain: Washington and London Complicit in Crimes against Humanity Committed by Alkhalifa regime
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Economic Sanctions portray West’s Duplicity on Iran
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US Drone Strikes: Part of a Strategy of Global Warfare?
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Combined Maritime Forces: U.S Global Naval Force in the Arabian Sea
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The USraeli War on Terror is a Giant Fiction
“Ironic indeed, that the US in particular is backing entirely terrorist forces that thousands of Americans have shed their blood allegedly fighting in the ‘War on Terror.’ It appears that Al Qaeda, admittedly a creation of the CIA in the 1980’s to draw in and fight Soviets in Afghanistan, is still patronized by the West […]
Geneva meet lacks key participant, Iran
The representatives of Russia, China, the United States, Britain and France along with Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait and Iraq began the meeting at the United Nations office on Saturday. The participants in the Geneva meeting were convened by the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan. On June 27, some UN diplomats said Annan has proposed […]
Euro bailouts cause deadly conditions
Press TV has interviewed Ian Williams, senior analyst with Foreign Policy in Focus from London about the French national debt position and the deadly condition attached to bailouts, particularly the central control of the budget of the indebted European States. What follows is an approximate transcript of the interview. Press TV: One reason cited here […]
World’s oldest pottery found in China
According to the report published in the journal Science, the fragments are 2,000 years older than previously found pieces. Experts believe the pieces belonged to a community of roving hunter-gatherers who used them in cooking some 20,000 years ago. Radiocarbon analysis of the nearby sediment indicates that the pottery date to a time before the […]
Meeting on Syria begins in Geneva
The representatives of Russia, China, the United States, Britain and France along with Turkey, Qatar, Kuwait and Iraq began the meeting at the United Nations office on Saturday. The participants in the Geneva meeting were convened by the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan. On June 27, some UN diplomats said Annan has proposed […]