Category: Global News and Affairs
Urbanization – Cities are Home to Over 50% of World’s People
Today, 54% of the world's population lives in urban areas. By 2050, nearly 66 % of the people will come to live in urban areas. 90%of the increased [...]
Muslim World’s first ‘Green’ Mosque opens in Dubai
Dubai: Dubai's Awqaf and Minors Affairs Foundation (AMAF) opened the first environmentally friendly mosque in the entire Muslim world, to worshippe [...]
British Imams warn against ‘cowboy’ ISIS
Leading British Muslim preachers have strongly condemned the Islamist militant group ISIS in an online video published last fortnight aimed at dete [...]
UAE enters Space Race with first Arab Spaceship to Mars
Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has entered the space race with a project to send an unmanned probe to Mars by 2021 in the Arab world's firs [...]
Kosher Iftar: UK Synagogue marks Ramadan with Interfaith Meal
During the recent escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Jews and Muslims in London sat down to break bread.
By Nabila Pathan
A UK-based [...]
Bethlehem Christians fast Ramadan with Muslims
Bethlehem: Christians in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus Christ, joined the city's Muslim residents in fasting Ramadan in co [...]
Ramadan in Sweden with no Dusk, no Dawn
Kiruna, Sweden: During this year's holy month of Ramadan, when consumption of food and water is prohibited between dawn and dusk, how do Muslims obse [...]
Muslim Groups fight for Church’s Right to use the word Allah
By Anisah Shukry
Kuala Lumpur: Christians are not alone in their struggle to use the word "Allah" in Malaysia, as Muslim non-governmental organisation [...]
Second Saudi Arabian Woman Secures Commercial Pilot Licence
Dubai: Yasmeen Mohammad Al Mainmani started to dream about flying when she was just seven years old. She was not particularly dreaming of being a cap [...]
How Islamic is the Caliphate?
Muslims today see the "caliphate" declared by the notorious ISIS ("Islamic State of Iraq and Syria," or simply IS) as an abomination.
By Mustafa A [...]