Planning for Maarif-branded Turkish schools are at an advanced stage with the first ones ready within two years. Al Qalam reports in an exclusive interview. The Turkish Government is poised to invest heavily in South…
By Zeinab Edah-Tally and Areeb Ullah Hamza Yusuf, a prominent US-born Islamic scholar, has faced criticism for his decision to be part of a 10-member panel chosen by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to…
Two South African sisters’ who were imprisoned in Saudi Arabia, initially without charge, described their ordeal on Tuesday and said they had brought a complaint to the United Nations. Their complaint comes as Yumna Desai,…
Leaked plan to end the Israel-Palestine conflict by the Trump administration will entrench the ojccupation and perpetuate the economic exploitation of Palestinians, writes Jeremy Wildeman and Emile Badarin. Leaked details of the Trump administration’s Deal…
Attempts to bring about more radical changes, by punishing and excluding the old elite, are not possible via democratic means, writes Marina Ottaway The mass demonstrations that have been unfolding for months in Algeria and…
Muslims in the region spend Ramadan trying to rebuild their lives amid shortage of food and damaged mosques, writes Tendai Marima. Piles of debris lie where thatched mud huts once stood in the village…
‘We don’t want breadcrumbs. We want to return to our lands, we want our rights under international law to be recognised’, says Palestinian academic Haidar Eid. We have spent sleepless nights under Israeli bombs before…
By William Roberts Washington, DC – Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, appeared before a US House of Representatives panel on Thursday to share her love for her fiance and call…
The Jewish Board of Deputies had “maligned” the minister in an article in the SA Jewish Report, hoping she is not reappointed to the international relations portfolio, but there is a pushback, writes an Al…
