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Iran’s Great Storyteller Dies in Silence

by Amir Taheri | Aug 3, 2016 | Features

When President Muhammad Khatami’s Ministry of Islamic Guidance worked on the final list of banned writers and poets in the winter of 1997, few expected that Amir Ashiri’s name would be one of the 3000 or so “enemies of Islam and the Revolution” to be forbidden from...

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President Barack Obama at a press conference at the White House. REUTERS, Joshua Roberts

Obama Says Trump ‘Unfit’ for Presidency

by Asharq Al Awsat and Mohammad Ali Salih | Aug 3, 2016 | World

Washington, London-U.S. President Barack Obama attacked Republican presidency candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday and described him as “unfit” to become a president. In a press conference held in Washington with Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Hsien Loong, Obama called...

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Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi. AFP PHOTO / FETHI BELAIDFETHI BELAID/AFP/Getty Images

Tunisian President Names Youssef Chahed as PM Designate

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Aug 3, 2016 | Middle East

Tunisian president Beji Caid Essebsi has proposed Youssef Chahed as a new candidate to replace the north African country’s ousted prime minister Habib Essid. “I met today with the president… who charged me with forming a national unity...

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A man walks past the Kingdom Centre Tower in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia April 12, 2016. REUTERS/Faisal Al Nasser

Saudi Capital Market Authority Issues Draft Real Estate Investment Traded Funds Instructions

by Shuja Al-Baqmi | Aug 3, 2016 | Business

Riyadh- Saudi Capital Market Authority unveiled a draft on real estate investment traded funds instructions. The draft prohibits the investment of real estate funds in white lands, or urban lands that are not being developed by their owners. These updates coincide...

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Nigeria has all but finished a flourishing local film industry that employed thousands of people, but was under scrutiny by clerics and officials. AFP PHOTO / AFP PHOTO / AMINU ABUBAKAR

Extremists Halt ‘Film Village’ Project North of Nigeria

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 3, 2016 | World

Kano (Nigeria)-After a wide campaign and so much pressure put by extremists, Nigeria has cancelled a plan to build a $10 million “Film Village” outside the mainly Muslim northern city of Kano. The project, to be built on a 20-hectare expanse near Kano, planned for a...