Articles tagged with: Islam
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Monday, 13 May, 2013
STANFORD, Asharq Al-Awsat—Ten years ago yesterday, the Saudi capital, Riyadh, was rocked by three near-simultaneous suicide bombings at housing compounds for expatriates. Over 30 people died and 160 were injured in what was, and remains, the deadliest terrorist attack in the kingdom’s history. The bombing came as a shock to most Saudis and robbed the country of its relative innocence as far as internal violence was concerned. After decades of calm, Saudi Arabia suddenly became the scene ...
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Sunday, 21 Apr, 2013
“The Muslims and Copts are one hand” was one slogan that could be heard ringing out across Tahrir Square throughout the Egyptian revolution. More than two years later, a mob of Egyptian Muslims doused Copt Saber Helal with gasoline and set him on fire in a town north of Cairo. How times change—or not.
In reality, the Tahrir Square unity was the aberration, not last week’s sectarian violence. Egypt’s Coptic community—comprising approximately ten percent of the overall populatio...
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Tuesday, 4 Dec, 2012
A large, rolled-up Arabic rug lies hazardously across the front entrance of St. Mark’s Coptic Orthodox church in Kensington, London. Ahead, smiling and embracing, groups of men a...
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Thursday, 4 Oct, 2012
Following the overthrow of the corrupt Egyptian monarchy in 1952, a power struggle emerged between the coup’s two leaders, Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser. Eventually, Nas...
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Thursday, 4 Oct, 2012
Ayatollah Khomeini began the battle in 1988 when he issued a fatwa calling for the killing of the author of a book that not man many people had heard of until then. The Satanic Ver...
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Thursday, 13 Sep, 2012
Unnamed American officials have briefed the AFP news agency that Tuesday’s attack on the American consulate in Benghazi, which fell on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks...
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Monday, 23 Jul, 2012
Confirming unofficial results, it has been confirmed that Libya’s voters have not gone the way of the Tunisia and Egypt. While the Arab Spring appeared to have led to a resurgenc...
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Wednesday, 30 May, 2012
The Franco-American argument about which country deserves to lecture the other on everything from liberty to multilateralism—has raged for centuries, but France just won the ...
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Wednesday, 23 May, 2012
Conspicuously absent from Egypt’s presidential elections—the first round of which ends today (Wednesday)—has been a serious discussion about the flagging economy. Last we...
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Tuesday, 15 May, 2012
"Either appear as you are," the thirteenth century Sufi mystic Mevlana Jalaluddin Rumi once famously said, "or be as you appear."
One wonders what Rumi would have made of modern...
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