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A 28-year-old woman was stabbed to death in a suburb of Amman yesterday – the eighth reported "honour" killing in Jordan so far this year.
She is said to have been stabbed 16 times and her four brothers are being questioned by police, according to the Jordan Times.
The paper quotes a source as… Read more
Egypt ranks 19th in the world for violation of shipping regulations, according to a report by the International Maritime Organisationcited by Bikya Masr website.
The website quotes Adel Shaaban, Director of the French Classification Authority in Alexandria, as saying that Egypt’s… Read more
Once corruption becomes institutionalised, it is very difficult to eradicate. Morocco, ranked 89th worldwide in last year'sCorruption Perceptions Index, is a typical example and a new report from the kingdom's Central Authority for the Prevention of Corruption (ICPC) examines the nature of the… Read more
It's back to Square One in Egypt on the question of divorced Christians re-marrying. In May, the Supreme Administrative Courtordered Pope Shenouda III to allow two Coptic Christians, in two separate cases, to remarry after divorce.
The Coptic church appealed, and now the Supreme Constitutional… Read more
I didn't post here yesterday because I was busy writing for Comment Is Free about the sacking of Octavia Nasr, CNN's senior editor of Middle East affairs.
While I do think her tweet about Ayatollah Fadlallah was ill-judged, the way she was hounded out of her job is worrying. Writing for Salon,… Read more
A Yemeni security officer named as Ali Khanbash survived an assassination attempt at his home in Zinjibar yesterday, al-Sahwa reports. Another person was injured.
It was the fourth such attack in the southern Abyan province in the space of a month. On July 3, an army officer was… Read more
Don't stop, make it pop
DJ, blow my speakers up
Tonight, I'm a-fight
'Til we see the sunlight
Tick tock on the clock
But the party don't stop, no
The extraordinary video has been doing the rounds on YouTube. It shows Israeli troops from the Nahal Brigade’s 50th Airborne Batallion… Read more
Four men were convicted yesterday in a multi-million-dollar bribery case involving expansion plans for Jordan's only oil refinery. Those convicted are:
Adel Qudah, a former finance minister and former chairman of the Jordan Petroleum Refinery Company (JPRC)
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A remarkable investigation by a Yemeni newspaper, al-Masdar, has discovered that slavery persists in Yemen, long after if was officially abolished. Five hundred or more people are said to be living in servitude in parts of Hajja and Hodeida provinces. Sheikhs and members of the local… Read more
Nasr Abu Zayd, one of the leading liberal Islamic thinkers, died in Egypt yesterday at the age of 66. (Reports: Reuters and al-Masry al-Youm.) In the 1990s, he was at the centre of a notorious "hesba" divorce case after being targeted by Islamists.
The trouble started when Abu Zayd, who was… Read more
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
