by UN NEWS CENTRE on JUNE 17, 2013: 17 June 2013 – Warning that the centrifugal force of the Syria crisis continues to imperil the region, a senior United Nations agency official today said that more than half of the Palestinian refugee camps in Syria have become “theatres of war,” where killings and kidnappings have [...]
via EGYPTIAN CHRONICLES (blog) on JUNE 17, 2013: Cairo University professors and experts in the faculties of engineering and agriculture have formed a group called “Group of Nile Basin” {GNB} and this group prepared extremely important report about the Ethiopia’s great Renaissance Dam. The report was published in Arabic on Facebook by Dr. Nader Noor El [...]
by MAHMOUD SALEM for DAILY NEWS EGYPT on JUNE 3, 2013: For the past few weeks Egyptian society and media have been hysterical over Ethiopia’s construction of its Renaissance Dam. The public was suddenly bombarded with the notion that Ethiopia will turn off the water faucet on Egypt and that this is an issue that threatens [...]
by HIND MAKKI for THE NEW YORK TIMES “ROOM FOR DEBATE” on APRIL 24, 2013: Defending a woman’s right to choose what she does or does not wear on her head is a noble, if misguided, fight. The freedom to choose how you appear in public is part of a constellation of basic human rights that [...]
via THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, APRIL 2013: A free exhibition, The Mirror of Health: Discovering Medicine in the Golden Age of Islam, revealing the development of medical tradition in Europe and the Middle East from the collections of the Royal College of Physicians in London will be held next month. May 1-15, 2013. The [...]
Priscilla Wald: MERS-CoV Virus is a Threat, But Watch the Language When Conveying This
compiled by ISLAMiCommentary on JUNE 4, 2013: World Health Organization officials have labeled MERS-CoV, or Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, as a great health concern that poses “a threat to the entire world.” Recent reports say the virus has spread beyond the Middle East to Italy. Camille Jackson, with Duke University’s Office of News & Communications, [...]
Read More