Saba was just 25 when she left her design job in New York to work on a project renovating an art gallery back in her hometown Tehran. Within months, she won three more contracts to do up galleries...More
Election fever is sweeping Tunisia well ahead of parliamentary and presidential polls set for late 2019. President Beji Caid Essebsi has accused Prime Minister Youssef Chahed of seeking power through...More
At first, word spread that many of the Uighurs who had gone missing in Yining, a city cradled between mountains in north-west China, were being held inside a former Communist Party school. Some had...More
Iran is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its Islamic Revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed Shah, overturned 2,500 years of monarchical rule and brought hard-line Shia clerics to power. The...More
A prominent atheist video blogger says he has given up hope on life in Egypt and has launched a crowdfunding page called "Help Me Escape Egypt" to aid him in purchasing another nationality so he can...More
The United Nations plans to convene a second round of talks in March on settling the decades-old conflict in Western Sahara even though no major progress was made during the first round, diplomats...More
Ibrahim Masri has been calling Muslims to prayer for nearly 15 years in an Israeli city, but his voice is now being silenced because he took part in a bodybuilding contest. Israel's interior ministry...More
U.S. lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle said on Wednesday they have nominated jailed Uighur scholar Ilham Tohti – sentenced to life in prison for "separatism" – for the Nobel peace prize...More
Fed up by months of bread queues, price hikes and petrol shortages in Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir's hometown of Shendi, office worker Louay Mohamed Kheir, feels there's only one solution: "We need...More
Lebanese leaders reached a deal on Thursday to set up a new unity government, three political sources from different factions said, ending months of wrangling that has added to concerns for the...More
The Republican leader of the U.S. Senate, Mitch McConnell, has delivered a rare rebuke of Donald Trump in legislation on Thursday that questions the president's decision to pull U.S. troops out of...More
Pope Francis's three-day trip to the United Arab Emirates on Sunday marks the first time a pontiff has ever visited the conservative Muslim Arabian Peninsula, where over 2.6 million Catholics reside...More
Asia Bibi, the Christian woman at the centre of a blasphemy row which has ignited violent protests, been linked to two assassinations and spotlighted religious extremism in Pakistan, is expected to...More
It only took a few days for al-Qaida-linked militants to seize more than two dozen towns and villages in northern Syria from rival insurgents earlier this month, expanding and cementing their control...More
Afghans following the progress in recent talks between the United States and the Taliban are hopeful about a possible peace deal to end an insurgency in Afghanistan that has taken thousands of lives...More
The head of Sudan's powerful intelligence agency on Tuesday ordered the release of all detainees held during anti-government demonstrations that have rocked the country for weeks, even as protesters...More
A UN judicial expert tasked with investigating the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Tuesday she would present her report by the end of May. Agnes Callamard, the UN special...More
France's government is preparing for an influx of home-grown jihadists with the departure of U.S. troops from Syria, saying on Tuesday that anyone who left to fight for Islamic extremists will go...More
Philippine authorities called for calm on Wednesday after a grenade attack on a mosque in a mainly Christian southern province killed two people, just three days after a devastating church bombing...More
For centuries, residents of Mosul have spoken a unique form of Arabic enriched by the Iraqi city's long history as a crossroads of civilisation, a singsong dialect that many now fear will die out...More
Syria said on Saturday it was ready to revive a landmark security deal with Turkey that normalised ties for two decades before the 2011 conflict if Ankara pulled its troops out of the war-torn...More
French President Emmanuel Macron is to hold talks on Monday with his Egyptian counterpart in Cairo, saying beforehand that he wants to boost ties with the Middle Eastern country in the fight against...More
German Chancellor Angela Merkel underscored the urgency of combating anti-Semitism, racism and hatred more than 70 years after the Holocaust, calling for new ways to keep alive the memory of the...More
An Iraqi priest who saved a trove of religious manuscripts from the Islamic State group was ordained on Friday as the new Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul. Najeeb Michaeel, 63, was inaugurated...More
The Islamic State-claimed bombing of a Catholic cathedral that killed 20 in the Philippines' restive south put fresh pressure on Monday on peace efforts aimed at ending decades of separatist violence...More
A UN rapporteur for human rights is set to arrive in Turkey on Monday to investigate the case of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, nearly four months after his murder inside Riyadh's consulate in...More
Secular government leaders announced a new party called Long Live Tunisia on Sunday which is to be led by the prime minister and will compete with moderate Islamists in upcoming elections. Though the...More
The 2019 Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt in June and July has been pushed back by a week to cater for the holy month of Ramadan, the tournament's chief told journalists on Sunday. The four-week long...More
The Pakistani lawyer of a Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy jetted out of the Netherlands on Saturday to "hopefully assist his client for the last time" in a Pakistani court hearing, a Dutch MP...More
As the United Arab Emirates prepares to host Pope Francis in February, the country's minister of tolerance said the first-ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula will contribute to building bridges...More
A Jewish community leader in Germany said on Thursday she had been targeted with threats and hate mail "almost by the minute" since criticising the far-right AfD party. Charlotte Knobloch had...More
Jakarta's former governor was released from prison on Thursday, nearly two years after his blasphemy conviction fanned fears of religious intolerance in the world's biggest Muslim-majority nation...More
Israeli prosecutors on Thursday charged a Jewish 16-year-old with manslaughter after he allegedly threw a stone at a car in the occupied West Bank and killed a Palestinian woman. Prosecutors...More
International rights group Amnesty International said on Thursday that an intensified crackdown on dissent in Egypt made the country "more dangerous" than ever for peaceful critics of the government...More
Turkey has the capacity to create a "safe zone" in Syria on its own but will not exclude the United States, Russia or others if they want to co-operate, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said...More
Tunisian divorcee Latifa counts herself lucky – she has a modest home that boasts a neat vegetable garden, a fig tree and a pomegranate tree, along with a panoramic view of neighbouring farmland. "...More
A Muslim party said it would launch a legal bid to change the name of Bosnia's Serb region, enraging all Serbian parties in the volatile country and prompting calls for calm from the European Union...More
Gaza's dominant Hamas group refused to let Qatar send in $15 million of aid on Thursday, part of a tortuous standoff involving Israel and rival Palestinian factions that has left thousands of civil...More
Mousumi Akter left her home in rural Bangladesh in 2017 and travelled 5,000 kilometres to work as a maid in Jordan to support her struggling family. In less than two years, she was dead. The young...More
A Pakistani activist affiliated with a group that has angered the country's powerful military with its campaign against disappearances was arrested on Monday, an MP said, leading Amnesty...More
Roaring along Baghdad's highways, the "Iraq Bikers" are doing more than showing off their love of outsized motorcycles and black leather: they want their shared enthusiasm to help heal Iraq's deep...More
Iraqi premier Adel Abdel Mahdi visited Basra on Sunday, his first trip as prime minister to the southern province where lagging services spawned a water crisis and deadly protests last summer. Abdel...More
An 80-year-old Muslim cleric imprisoned in Indonesia on terrorism charges should only be released if he pledges allegiance to the state, Indonesian President Joko Widodo said on Tuesday. Last week,...More
Three men and a high school student were charged with plotting to attack a rural upstate New York Muslim community named Islamberg with explosives, authorities said on Tuesday. The Rochester-area...More
Boys played and chatted on a rickety wooden ramp under a baking sun in West Java, while just below their feet flowed one of Indonesia's most horribly polluted rivers, clogged with hundreds of tonnes...More
Thirty-one Rohingya Muslims have been detained in India after a standoff at the country's border with Bangladesh when both sides refused to accept the group, police said on Tuesday. As many as 1,300...More
The United States confirmed on Tuesday that its envoy is meeting in Qatar with the Taliban, seeking to negotiate an end to the Afghanistan war despite a new major attack claimed by the insurgents...More
Bathed in light, musicians belt out melodies among pre-Islamic desert ruins in northwestern Saudi Arabia, a heritage trove at the centre of efforts to put the reclusive kingdom on the tourism map...More
U.S. President Donald Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan agreed to continue seeking a negotiated solution in north-eastern Syria in a phone call on Sunday, the White House said. "The...More
The anti-government protests rocking Sudan for the past month are reminiscent of the Arab Spring uprisings of nearly a decade ago. Demonstrators, many in their 20s and 30s, are trying to remove an...More
Israel's military said it carried out strikes on Iranian targets in Syria early on Monday after it intercepted a rocket fired from Syrian territory hours before. It said in a statement it was "...More
An Egyptian court on Sunday sentenced a television host to one year in prison for interviewing a gay man last year, a judicial source said. Mohamed al-Gheiti, who has expressed his stance against...More
Mauritania straddles the transition between the Maghreb and sub-Saharan Africa, its population equally divided between Africans and Arabs. By Pascal Mannaerts
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Why I as a Muslim Woman Don't Wear a Headscarf
Jordan and the influx of refugees
The true Samaritans
Muslims in Liberal Democracies
Why the West Fears Islam
The decline of Islamic scientific thought
Don't blame it on al-Ghazali
The Media and ''The Innocence of Muslims''
Against the Islamisation of Muslims
Junaid Jamshed
"I Was a Sinner for Years"