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Tracing the footsteps of Tariq Ibn Ziyad

28 Apr 2010: Every year millions of visitors flock to Spain to access its unique heritage of cultural & language knowledge. It requires years to learn all about Spain but who can forget the year 711 when a mysterious figure landed on the straits of modern day

US Muslims Go Cyberspace for Soul Mates

09 Apr 2010: In America, a growing number of single Muslims resort to matrimonial websites in their pursuit for life partners, seeing the cyberspace as a more accessible way to find Mr/Ms Right. "We have people accessing our website from all across the US. We have

The Phenomenon Of Ignoring The Qur’an

05 Feb 2010: وَقَالَ الرّسُولُ يَرَبّ إِنّ قَوْمِي اتّخَذُواْ هَـَذَا الْقُرْآنَ مَهْجُوراً “And the Messenger has said: “O my lord, indeed my people have taken this Qur’an as [a thing]

Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi Wins Malaysia's Hijra Award

15 Dec 2009: DOHA – Prominent Muslim scholar Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi, the president of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), has won Malaysia’s prestigious "Hijra of the Prophet" award. Qaradawi will be given the award by Malaysian King Mizan Zainal

Dr Wilfried Murad Hofmann named Islamic personality of the year

27 Oct 2009: Dr. Murad Wilfried Hofmann was selected the Islamic Personality of the Year by Dubai International Holy Qur'an Award (DIHQA), which was announced on Tuesday during the Qur'an competition session. Dubai International Holy Qur'an Award annually honours an

Muslim Africans: A Past of Which to Speak

21 Oct 2009: An area of history, which still remains in the shadows of today's ingrained and accepted tale of Western dominance is the history of Muslim Africans. The tribulations and triumphs of Muslim Africans translates into a rich and vibrant history, a past of

Palestinian Camps Are Ready to Erupt

18 Sep 2009: Meandering the alleys and ground vapors of the wet fetid stench in Beirut’s Shatila Palestinian Refugee Camp, 27 years after the 1982 Sabra Shatila Massacre, one witnesses a dystopia. This shanty ground, is the most squalid of the World’s 59

Gaza's Water Supply Near Collapse

18 Sep 2009: RAMALLAH - The International Committee of the Red Cross has warned that Gaza's access to safe supply of drinking water could cease at any time. The World Health Organisation (WHO) says outbreaks of disease could be triggered as a consequence. The warnings

Blind Palestinian's memory feat earns respect

09 Sep 2009: If you live in Ramallah chances are Mohamed Hashem knows your phone number. The phone operator at the Ministry of Social Affairs has memorized more than 80,000 phone numbers and is one of its most trusted employees, especially after he saved the building

Pakistan's Village Book Clubs

09 Sep 2009: KARACHI - Jawwad Ahmed Mazari, 13, was not able to attend school because of financial constraints and lack of time as he has to work in the field with his father in a far flung area of Karampur town, in the southern province of Sindh. Now he has got a

IDP says better north if conditions remain the same in south Sudan

07 Sep 2009: Awut Deng Baak, a southern Sudanese leaving in Jebel Auliya, Khartoum State, says better to remain in northern Sudan if conditions remain the same in the South. Since the signing of the comprehensive peace agreement in 2009, only some 90,516 returned from

Why Libya Welcomed Megrahi

03 Sep 2009: When Abdel Baset al-Megrahi landed in Tripoli following his release from Scotland last week, the world saw a single event in two very different ways. Through the prism of the Western media, Americans saw a terrorist being given a hero's welcome by a

Don't Criticize Israel, You Anti-Semite

02 Sep 2009: According to the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, the definition of anti-Semitism is, "hostility towards or discrimination against Jews as a religious, ethnic or racial group." This should strike everyone as odd, since Jews are hardly the only Semitic

Somalis in Italy in bad circumstances

01 Sep 2009: Italy which is one the major countries in the world the Somalis fleeing from the hostility in their country reach, after long adventure in the past years are facing staid humanitarian situation in Italy. The Somali start their journey from home, pass

Keeping Ramadan spirit alive

31 Aug 2009: The Muslim world goes topsy-turvy in Ramadan. Eating, sleeping and socializing routines are turned back to front - the first meal is eaten as the sun sets. The initial morsel of food into our mouths will usually be a sweet, succulent date, according to

Muslim Aid walks for peace to commemorate Srebrenica conflict

27 Aug 2009: Muslim Aid Bosnia successfully completed the Srebrenica Walk, or “Peace March”, in Bosnia and Herzegovina which commemorates the deaths of 30,000 Bosnian Muslims killed in Srebrenica during the 1992-1995 conflict. A team from Muslim Aid joined 3,500

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The wife of Khalid Khawaja claims that her husband, who was once a confidante of Osama bin Laden, was taken at the request of the American intelligence service as he travelled through Pakistan's lawless tribal belt. On Monday a group calling itself the

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A death sentence for a Yemeni man, Bassam Abdullah al-Haidari, convicted of spying for Israel has been upheld by an appeals court. In March 2009, a state security court sentenced the 27-year-old to death after convicting him of establishing contacts with

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