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People visit the Confucius Temple to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Nanjing, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province, in February 2014. (AP Photo)
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Abdullah Anas speaks with The Majalla. (The Majalla/Tam Hussein)
Jihad, Then and Now
As the situation in Syria grows worse and simultaneously more complicated day by day, the fears of observers of the conflict have become more focused on the foreign jihadists who have travelled to the war-torn country to take part in the fighting. With the chaos...Caption:
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki gives a joint press conference with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon (unseen) in Baghdad about the situation in Iraq and Syria on January 13, 2014. (AFP/Ahmed Saad)
Maliki’s Last Stand?
Iraq is only months away from its quadrennial national election for its Council of Representatives, scheduled for April 30. As in most countries with relatively open elections, candidates and factions should be vying for supporters, negotiating coalitions and setting...Caption:
The N Seoul Tower is seen next to a traditional bower on the top of Nam mountain in Seoul on February 22, 2010. The tower was established as a Korea’s first total electric wave tower to send TV and radio broadcasts in Seoul metropolitan area in 1969. AFP PHOTO/JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)
South Koreans on Arab Airwaves
As a child at home in the United States I used to listen to broadcasts from faraway places via shortwave radio, the transmission typically uneven and full of static. Today those distant voices come in clear as a bell, via streaming audio on any smartphone. Late the...Caption:
An Iraqi policeman (R) looks at a damaged vehicle after a car bomb attack in Baghdad 16, 2013. Suicide attacks and bombings across Iraq killed at least 21 people on Monday, medical and police sources said, the latest in a series of attacks that has brought violence in Iraq to its highest level in five years. REUTERS/Wissm al-Okili (IRAQ – Tags: CIVIL UNREST CRIME LAW)
Iraq’s Insurgency Reinvigorated
On November 27, suicide bombers and gunmen attacked police stations in Ramadi, Iraq, killing at least seven people and leaving more than twenty wounded. On the same day in the Sunni area of Arab Jibor in Baghdad, Iraqi police found the bodies of eight men who had each...Caption:
Egyptian chairman of the International Union for Muslim Scholars, Sheikh Yusuf Al-Qaradawi (C) during his visit to the Islamic University in Gaza City on May 9, 2013. (EPA/ALI ALI)