New on MEMRI: Al-Rai TV – A Syrian Platform for Iraqi Terror BroadcastsAl-Rai TV, which began broadcasting several months ago from Syria, provides coverage of events in the Middle East, focusing on terrorist attacks carried out by Sunni insurgents against U.S. forces and Iraqi security forces.
According to Arab media ...
November 18, 2008, 3:36 pm
Egypt: Al-Azhar Refuses To Accept Coptic StudentsEgyptian Coptic attorney Mamdouh Nakhla has filed a lawsuit against Al-Azhar University over its refusal to accept a Coptic student to theology studies in the institution.
He said that the institution was acting unconstitutionally, because the ...
November 19, 2008, 10:28 am
Cartoon In Qatari Newspaper On Obama's Legacy From BushCartoonist: 'Alla Al-Laqta
Source: Al-Sharq, Qatar, November 18, ...
November 19, 2008, 10:26 am
Antisemitic Cartoon In UAE Paper On The Dialogue Between Judaism And IslamCartoonist: 'Aamer Al-Zo'abi
Source: Akhbar Al-Arab, November 18, ...
November 19, 2008, 10:24 am
Syrian-Iraqi Tension Over Iraq-U.S. AgreementAt an Arab information and media conference in Damascus, Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal and Iraqi Communications Minister Farouq Abd Al-Qadr clashed on the issue of the Iraq-U.S. security agreement.
Bilal expressed apprehensions that the ...
November 18, 2008, 12:43 pm
In Iraq, 40 Commanders Quit Al-SahwaForty senior commanders have left the Al-Sahwa (Awakening) Council, in protest over the announcement by Al-Sahwa president Sheikh Ahmad Abu Risha that he had signed a pact with the Islamic Party in Al-Anbar in advance of the January 2009 regional ...
November 18, 2008, 12:42 pm
Sunni-Shi'ite Dialogue Center Established In KuwaitThe Sunni-Shi'ite Dialogue Center, recently established in Kuwait, has formed contacts with senior Sunni and Shi'ite clerics.
The contacts are aimed at convening joint conferences, which will produce a covenant banning cursing the ...
November 18, 2008, 12:31 pm
Moroccan Berbers Demand AutonomyIn response to a speech by Morocco's King Mohamed VI on the plan for autonomy for the Western Sahara and the decentralization of authority in the country, the Movement for Autonomy in the Rif has demanded autonomy also for the northern Rif ...
November 18, 2008, 12:28 pm
Al-Sadr: Iraqi FM's Initialing Of U.S.-Iraq Security Pact – A Mark Of ShameMuqtada Al-Sadr stated that the Iraqi foreign minister's initialing of the Iraq-U.S. security agreement yesterday, at an official ceremony with the U.S. ambassador to Baghdad, was a mark of shame and disgrace, and called on the Iraqi parliament ...
November 18, 2008, 12:27 pm
Elaph.com Apologizes To Tunisian Islamist LeaderThe liberal online journal Elaph.com has published an apology to Tunisian Islamist leader Rashed Al-Ghanoushi, after Al-Ghanoushi filed a lawsuit against the journal for libel.
The letter of apology said that contrary to what was written in the ...
November 18, 2008, 12:18 pm