Eight years after the terrorist attacks on 9/11, Muslim Americans — particularly Muslim-American women — continue to face battles in their struggle for acceptance and the right to wear religious garb in public settings. A new poll from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life finds that Americans see Muslims as encountering more [...]
Does Islam frown on nose jobs? Chemical peels? How about breast implants? One of the clerics with the answers is Sheik Mohammed al-Nujaimi, and Saudi women flock to him for guidance about going under the knife. The results may not see much light of day in a kingdom where women cover up from head to [...]
In what has been described as a step towards the creation of a synthetic cell, scientists have created a new “engineered” strain of bacteria. A team successfully transferred the genome of one type of bacteria into a yeast cell, modified it, and then transplanted into another bacterium. This paves the way to the creation of [...]
Muslims view the fasting month of Ramadan with much sanctity and honor. The fasting month brings about a personal reflection of where we are, what we have done and where we hope to go. Many Muslims feel a heightened sense of excitement as well as anxiety. In this state of excitement, we try our best [...]
With the recent success of the screenings of the independent film DeenTight plus the nationwide phenomenon of New Muslim Cool on PBS, there has been a lot of buzz about Islam and hip-hop culture. On Sunday, August 2, at the Ta’leef Collective in Fremont, CA, former breakdancer and current scholar Shaykh Abdullah Ali will discuss [...]
A major project is under way to restore Ethiopia’s 100-year-old imperial railway, and there are even plans to build a new national network. The French built it for the Emperor Menelik in the early 1900s, and French influences are everywhere, from the glazed canopies of the Addis Ababa railway station to the startling sight of [...]
Kenya’s President Kibaki on Sunday warned that trade in Eastern and Southern Africa was set to slow down due to the world financial crisis. He said majority of the member states of the Common Market for East and Southern Africa (Comesa) had reviewed downwards their economic growth targets. However, President Kibaki told the Heads of [...]
NAIROBI, 25 May 2009 (IRIN) – Most poor households in Djibouti still cannot afford sufficient food, despite an improvement in food security due to rains in the coastal belt and large-scale distribution of aid, an early warning agency stated. The price of imported rice, the main staple for poor households, increased by 6 percent in [...]
NAIROBI – Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki denied today that there is a frontier stand-off with neighbouring Djibouti even though tensions between the two have grown in recent weeks. Djibouti has accused Eritrean military forces of digging trenches on their common border and infiltrating Djiboutian territory. Issaias said the “matter is a wild invention with backing [...]