by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 21, 2010 | Business, Interviews
Islamic finance is a moral financial model based on divine principles, the most important of which is justice. There are many Quranic verses and Hadiths that deal with this, such as: “We sent aforetime our messengers with Clear Signs and sent down with them the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 21, 2010 | Features, Interviews
Timbuktu, Asharq Al-Awsat – Three Saudi tourists were killed and three others were injured by unidentified gunmen in northern Niger in December 2009. This incident raised several questions about the groups that control the region of the vast Saharan desert that...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 20, 2010 | Interviews, Media
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat- Just a few months ago Suleiman Dughah was one of the best-known Libyan journalists living abroad and classified as an opponent of the regime of Muammar Al-Gaddafi. At the very least he was a strong advocate of the slogans of change and...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 19, 2010 | Interviews, Lifestyle & Culture
Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat – Are you on Facebook under your real name? This is the question that continues to haunt a large number of Saudi Arabian women, despite the fact that internet social networking sites rely primarily on factual personal information. However...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 18, 2010 | Features, Interviews
Helsinki, Asharq Al-Awsat- Alexander Stubb has been in charge of the foreign portfolio in the Finnish Coalition Government since April 2008. In the European Parliament (2004-2008) the main concern of the young minister, age 42, was the internal institutions and...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jan 18, 2010 | Interviews, Lifestyle & Culture
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat-I was surprised, one morning, to find a story about the discovery of a huge ancient Egyptian temple next to the Temple of Esna in Upper Egypt on the front page of an Egyptian newspaper. The headline read ‘Golden Statues Discovered and Sold for...
