Iraqi committee investigates US crimes

Iraq has formed a committee to assess compensation claims from people who have suffered because of US military operations since the start of this year.  The formation of the committee is part of an interim security accord between Iraq and the US that was signed last November.    

More Suicide-Bomb Deaths In Pakistan Than In Iraq Or Afghanistan This Year

Suicide Attacks A Growing Threat In Pakistan
– Christian Science Monitor
Pakistan has overtaken Iraq and Afghanistan in suicide-bomb deaths this year, its intelligence agency reports. Thursday’s attack in Islamabad struck the police’s antiterrorism squad. Islamabad, Pakistan – A suicide bomber struck the headquarters of the Anti-terrorism Squad of the Islamabad police force Thursday afternoon, just as [...]

Property Investment Opportunities in the Middle East

A recent survey conducted this past September (2008) showed that property investment opportunities in the Middle East are expected to outnumber and outperform all other property markets for the next 2 to 3 years. According to the Jones, Lang, and LaSalle survey, the market will remain bullish on Middle Eastern property investments with Saudi Arabia [...]

Egypt announces reopening of its embassy in Iraqi capital

The Egyptian Foreign Minister, Ahmed Aboul Gheit, who begins a visit Sunday to Iraq announced in the Iraqi capital that Egypt was going to re-open its embassy in Baghdad. Egyptian national television quoted Aboul Gheit as saying that he had inspected some locations in Baghdad to choose one of them to be the headquarters of [...]

A seminar about “the Many Faces of Political Islam”

Seminar
Series: Initiative on Religion in International Affairs Event
Open to the Public – Harvard Kennedy School Campus
October 22, 2008
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
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Dr. Mohammed Ayoob will discuss the major themes of his recent book on the diverse manifestations of Islam and [...]

The Meaning of Imamah in Islam

One of the most controversial of current religious issues is pertinent to the Islamic Imamate or the Absolute Leadership of the Muslims of the world. Here, we shall attempt to clear up some of the illusions and misconceptions in connection with it. A shaikh has mentioned in one of his discourses:
“The most detrimental and divisive [...]

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Asia to become economic powerhouse by next decade

Islamabad: Pakistan Economy Watch has said that only regional cooperation can provide relief to 50 crore poor living in South Asia. Political differences, if set aside, will spur new era of growth and Pakistan will reap dividends as Asia will be world’s centre of economic activity by next decade.

Pakistan will be world’s leader in textile [...]

Islamic beliefs honor Women

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Have you ever walked through a mall and seen a woman with a veil covering her hair? What crossed your mind? Did you think she was one of the many wives of a rich Saudi Arabian oil sheik? Did you feel sympathy for her because some man forced her to dress that way? [...]

The Middle East’s Water Crisis: Will the Jordan River Run Dry?

The River Jordan has flowed freely for thousands of years, its name immortalized in the Hebrew Bible and its lush upper reaches once known as the gates to the Garden of Eden. This summer, however, large sections of this storied river were reduced to a trickle, the water so low that grass fires spread freely [...]

Modernisation of Islam the only way to the victory for Muslims

MUSTAFA AKYOL, contributing author to www.WauBebas.org, is a Turkish columnist based in Istanbul.
Not long ago I ran into a quote from Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the Egyptian Muslim scholar and Al-Jazeera televangelist, in Turkey’s controversial Islamist daily . The 80-year-old cleric was saying, “Victory is only possible by returning to Islam.”

DubaiSat-1 ready for space launch

The UAE’s first earth observation satellite has been developed by SatrecI in South Korea with in depth participation of UAE engineers from the EIAST and is ’space ready’ according to an official in Dubai.
Dubai Sat-1 will provide the UAE with its first dedicated Eye in the Sky, and now awaits its launch later this year [...]

Democracy meets moderate Islamists wishes

A quick look at the Islamic countries reveals the fact that moderate Islam coordinates democratic values. In fact if democracy establishes in these countries, moderate Islamists will gain more than anybody else. They will receive the freedom of activities and get ride of cruel dictators which limits their freedom. here is more concrete examples:
In Egypt [...]

Remember when… Iraq attacked Iran, sparking the Iran-Iraq War

On September 22, 1980, Iraqi aircraft ineffectively attacked six Iranian air bases and four army installations. On September 23rd, the Saddam Hussein’s army crossed the border into Iranian territory in a four-pronged, six-division ground attack along a 400 mile front, igniting a war that was to last nearly eight years.
By September 28, Iraqi forces had [...]

Middle East internet Broadband Forecast

High demand for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) products and services in the Middle East is making the region an attractive proposition for the development of high speed broadband access market. The governments across the region are adopting policies to promote the uptake of broadband technology. In particular, aggressive development by the Gulf countries in [...]