by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 16, 2010 | Features, Interviews
London, Asharq Al-Awsat- Abdullah al-Ridi, Yemeni ambassador to the United Kingdom, has said that his country has been the target of an extremely unjust campaign following the dispatch of two suspect parcels from Yemen that were discovered at the Dubai Airport in the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 13, 2010 | Interviews, Lifestyle & Culture
In 1899, the first brick of the Islamic Art Museum in Cairo’s Bab al-Khalq district was laid. The Museum building was designed by Italian architect Alfonso Maniscalco in the Mamluk-style, which is characterized by lavish decoration and beautiful external facades...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 12, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
Baghdad, Asharq Al-Awsat – At a time when Iraqi Christian MP Yonadim Kanna denied that there were any calls from the Iraqi Christian community for the establishment of an autonomous region or “administrative unit” in the Nineveh Province, Iraqi Christian...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 11, 2010 | Interviews, Lifestyle & Culture
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat – It is now possible for every Muslim to learn how to perform the Hajj or Umrah rituals correctly through the online virtual world of “Second Life” before physically embarking on this spiritual journey in real life. It is now...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 10, 2010 | Interviews, Middle East
Ramallah, Asharq Al-Awsat – As Israel announced that suspects being sought in the West Bank by its security services “has dwindled almost to nil” Shin Bet officers have begun to carry out exploratory visits to homes of Hamas and Islamic Jihad officials in...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 9, 2010 | Features, Interviews
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- Salem Saleh, adviser to Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh, has said that the remarks made by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regarding the parcel bombs that originated from Yemen “reflects the extent to which the fingers of...