by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 25, 2009 | Interviews, Media
Thawal, Asharq Al-Awsat – Over 100 local and foreign media bodies competed to cover the opening ceremony for the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology [KAUST] that was held last Wednesday. KAUST is the largest research university in the region, and...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 24, 2009 | Interviews, Middle East
Thawal, Asharq Al-Awsat – The Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz said that throughout history, power has attached itself (after God) to science and the Muslim Ummah is well aware that it will not be powerful unless it depends (after...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 23, 2009 | Interviews, Middle East
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat – In an upstairs wing of the Imam Turki Bin Abdullah mosque in Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat meets the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia Sheikh Abdul Aziz Aal Al-Sheikh who is sitting on the floor with a student explaining a religious book. After the...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 22, 2009 | Interviews, Lifestyle & Culture
Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat – We are still looking at the famous image carved into the wall of the tomb of Khanoum Hateb II in the Beni Hassan cemetery in the Egyptian Al Minya governorate that portrays the arrival of an Asian delegation made up of men, women,...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 21, 2009 | Interviews, Media
Jeddah, Asharq Al-Awsat – On the eighth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the US administration took another step against Al Qaeda by shutting down the majority of the Islamic fundamentalist websites and forums affiliated to it. The US did this in order to...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 18, 2009 | Business, Interviews
Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat- Following the collapse of the Lehman Brothers, which was like a precursor to the global financial crisis from which the world is suffering today, several Western countries rushed to invite Islamic financial experts to discuss principles of the...