One month after responding to calls for hiring female shop attendants at women’s wear stores, Saudi investors in the field met to assess the outcome of the change. In a meeting held at the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce, Saudi businessmen working in women
As she left Homs, 10-year-old Nada saw dead bodies littering the streets of the besieged Syrian city, and she has since refused to eat, says her father Abu Ibrahim. “The army of Bashar al-Assad destroyed our homes,” says Ibrahim, a refu
An ultra-conservative Egyptian presidential hopeful has said that if he is elected as head of state he would force women to wear the hijab (veil) or “change creed,” adding that Islam provides no guarantees of personal freedom. “If you claim that A
Southern separatists in Yemen set fire to a tent camp housing anti-government protesters in the port city of Aden, witnesses said on Sunday, in opposition to an election this month to replace outgoing President Ali Abdullah Saleh. Southern separatists jo
Iranian authorities will crack down this week on any public protest against the year-long house arrest of opposition leaders, Mirhossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, an official was quoted as saying on Sunday. Iran, at odds with the West over its dispu
قدم محمد الدابي رئيس بعثة المراقبين العرب في سوريا استقالته من منصبه الأحد، كما صرح مصدر رسمي في الجامعة العربية لوكالة فرانس برس. و
Legislators debating bailout deal to avert what Prime Minister Papademos warned would be "economic chaos".
Islamist students in an Egyptian university stopped the shooting of a TV series on campus in protest of the “indecent” outfit of the actresses. Members of the crew of a TV series adapted from the novel “Zat” by prominent Egyptian writer Sonallah
Israel is using Azerbaijan, a former soviet republic bordering Iran, as a base to spy on the regime in Tehran, the London Times reported Saturday. The newspaper cited testimony from an anonymous Mossad agent, referred to only as Shimon. “This is grou
Turkish warplanes carried out air strikes on suspected Kurdish militant targets in northern Iraq overnight, Turkey’s general staff said on Sunday. In a brief statement on its website, it said warplanes had struck the Zab and Hakurk areas, targeting cav